Democracy would have more legitimacy if both sides were allowed to go be disobedient in the streets without favor to square off toe-to-toe in the public meatspace square of ideas.
Instead, all we get is constant astroturfed Current Thing boots on the ground from the liberals. And constant online bitching, memes, crowdfunding & Nothing Ever Happens from the right.
There isn't an instead. This is the only way it can ever be.
And that is the case because democracy hinges upon giving the wicked a say and a place in society alongside normal people. It will always become this monstrosity because it cannot become anything else.
Democracy would have more legitimacy if both sides were allowed to go be disobedient in the streets without favor to square off toe-to-toe in the public meatspace square of ideas.
Instead, all we get is constant astroturfed Current Thing boots on the ground from the liberals. And constant online bitching, memes, crowdfunding & Nothing Ever Happens from the right.
There isn't an instead. This is the only way it can ever be.
And that is the case because democracy hinges upon giving the wicked a say and a place in society alongside normal people. It will always become this monstrosity because it cannot become anything else.