Referendum Week: Direct Democracy In Action (1778) w/ Joshua Graham Lynn
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Is It Going to Explode?
There does seem to be so much frustration in the system right now. I think we've seen, you know, there is sort of like a Simon says, I think we're certain laws. That's important. The Massachusetts was a leader there. This is the best one. In 1928, they ended a ban on sporting events on Sundays,. Now we're like, that's the day for sports that apparently was not the case. Same thing with marriage equality for same sex couples. Same things with interracial marriage. These were all led by the states. And so I think it creates a really powerful model. If you want to know how do we fix our broken democracy right now is like
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