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Democracy in the Age of Riots

It Could Happen Here

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The US System Is Like, It's Not Designed to Function, Right?

"The US system is like, it's stunningly bad," he says. "There are 75 weird dudes in between your vote and I think actually happening." He argues that democracy as a legitimating principle has not lived up to its potential. The UK should be worried about the rise of republics with military apparatuses 'very hard to defeat by just purely fighting them'

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