Sara Wallace Goodman on Citizen Responses to Democratic Threats
Democracy Paradox
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Liberal Democracy Is a Catch All for All the Other Identity
Polarisation is at its core a problem of liberal democracy. If you don't have any sense of polarization, there's no sense of what people are voting for. There's no contest between ideas. It's just an empty contest between politicians saying that i have the best personality. I think when we are incentivized to organize exclusively around one identity, then yes, i do. Because it distils all nodes of conflict. Anno, democracy is conflictual we democracy is disagreement institutionalized. So when we distil all those differences, when we collapse them or flatten them to this kind of one catchall, then we lose all these opportunities to find compromise.
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