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Democracy Requires Changing Minds
- Democracy depends on the capacity to change minds through constant argument and discourse.
- Believing minds can't change leads to declines in democracy and opens the door for authoritarianism.
Democracy Is Unusual and Fragile
- Democracy is an unusual and fragile system requiring constant debate among all members.
- Historically, societies handed decisions to solo rulers, making democracy a radical invention.
Right Harnesses Feelings Better
- The right understands and channels citizens' big feelings caused by social and economic changes.
- Left fails if it ignores these feelings and speaks only in abstract policy language.