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Problems with Democracy, Part 2

Problems with Democracy, Part 2

What does voting do…really?

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Christopher Cook
Mar 02, 2023
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In Part 1, I introduced the topic and offered four important caveats that lay further groundwork for the discussion. I then concluded with the rather grim, but hard-to-dispute, recognition that “democracy” failed to prevent our recent (and very rapid) slouch into dystopia. In spite of the fact that “the people” supposedly rule in countries across the g…

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