Democracy is No Place for the People
Americans love democracy so much that some will kill or attempt to harm those who they think oppose it.
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Yet what is it that they love so much?
If it is the notion that “The People” get make the social and political decisions that most impact their own lives, they are in love with a fantasy that has never existed. Democracy is about voting for others who get to make these decisions and almost always in the interests of the wealthiest subset of “The People.”
Yet even the part of democracy that does include “the people,” (e.g., voting or speaking at