Sara Wallace Goodman on Citizen Responses to Democratic Threats
Democracy Paradox
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The Only Way Out Is to Travel to the North
When i think about the democratic threats that i study in the book, they don't seem like they got better. The fact that we now can openly discuss elections as invalid seems to suggest like a real decrease in trust that has not been repaired. It's just difficult to be able to turn that corner, is what i would assume. But it wasn't the passage of the in rights act that changed african americans outlook on the future for themselves and for democracy. That's what allowed people like martin luther king to inspire hope,. There was a way out, there was a future.
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