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Bryan Caplan: Can We Make Freedom and Democracy Compatible?

From the New World

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The American Experiment and Federalistic Leadership

I just think that there should be more sorting. There should be more kind of like difference. People, people should not be forced to go through or like not forced,. Like, in some sense, you have to interact with people who at least differ from you in some degree. Right. I would say that it's a feature of federalism rather than democracy, actually, that we're able to get this variation. So if the US had had a much more centralized system, then we wouldn't have had this variation. It's only because the US government strangely just decided to leave it up to the 50 states. This is one of the big things that happened since 2019 is it matters what

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