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When Is Democracy Undemocratic? (with Emily B. Finley)
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The Law of Unintended Consequences
There's a subtext, I'm surprised you didn't reference it in the book, but many people have talked about it. Thomas Sowell talks about the constrained vision and the unconstrained vision or the tragic vision that there are certain things about humanity that you have to accept as just how things are. Is that part of what we should be doing when we're promoting democracy is say, look, this system is not going to give you everything you want? You can't just expect a wholesale change in the people toward a preordained end. That's where you end up with violent revolution that destroys the existing civil society. So I think if we're aiming for some positive change in
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