Democracy in America

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Nov 5 · 1 min read
  1. I long for regional politics: a politics in which Americans actually represent their local needs, rather than just reflect back to the national media what the national media has been telling them.
  2. Twitter is not a forum for political exchange: it is a breeding ground for reactionaries.
  3. American political cults, both left and right, are unified in their hatred for those who don’t think like them, and for knowledge outside the sphere of what they already think they know.
  4. Trump and Obama both won because the transcended party and become…

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