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The Semiotic Argument for Democracy
There was an argument that I guess would be classified as an argument for the intrinsic good of democracy, that you call a semiotic defense of democracy. The argument is basically that democracy is good because it signifies or symbolizes something that we think is good. So lots of people get impressed by the idea that like we should have certain policies, not because they're effective, but because the policies express something.