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An inspiring conversation about democracy
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Importance of Democracy in Politics
I think there's a lot of insight in that and one thing that I've been struggling through in my piece on this which is I think very related. Obama at some point ended up making a choice between his priority of creating a more representative system. His priority of passing policy needed even emergency policy through the system as it exists now. And if you're going to cut the idea of democracy away from the idea of the material policies that affect people's lives quickly, then you're probably always going to end up choosing to spend your political capital on non democracy issues. It can't just be the platform on which politics happens. It also has to be connected to the things they want from politics.
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