What Does Democracy Feel Like?

One of the claims and hopes of the radical left for at least 200 years has been that it is possible, or it would be possible, to create institutions which normalized and rotinize the sense of potential. If we're talking about those moments of collectivity, for taking that as democracy, then it feels like that anything is possible. Is effectively power, like e matter. Poes o ne, that's yi. Use this term potent, collectivit its potency, potential and power. And i think there's really two different conceptions of politics going on, coming into conflict in those moments. But i have to believe it's possible. It's possible to create institutionsWhich don