Sara Wallace Goodman on Citizen Responses to Democratic Threats
Democracy Paradox
Elections and Democracy - It's Complicated
In a democracy we ask a lot of citizens just in elections alone, and i don't want to distil it to this one institution. It's complicated because people want different things and elections. And to tell them, throughout all this, you need to also consider whether or not this candidate is going to uphold democracy. Then adds yet another variable that makes it difficult for them to decide. We might have this by partisan senate intelligence that tells us there was outside influence in the election. The thing for as a citizen is questioning whether you can trust the next election, right? But think about kind of the long term effects. Trust in institutions is a very important part of democracy.
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