Fairy-Tale Democracy & Its Discontents
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7 min readDec 1, 2021
We’re in love with the idea of democracy. Its rapturous freedom, its ennobling vision, its earnest endorsement of the common man. Sentiments of equality manage to arch over present polarization to a hopeful extent. One wonders, where did this affectionate devotion to the democratic ideal come from?
I speculate it starts with our first introductions into this governmental prototype within the…