In theory, there's nothing wrong with fiction being aspirational: one of the things that fiction can provide is a space to imagine what doesn't exist in reality. But in the case of The West Wing, aspiration and inspiration went further into something like delusion, a desire to patch the problems of American political reality through the re-creation

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The theme that the video is grasping towards is the question “what are the grounds for ethical and effective speech”. 

Change requires a kind of organised, sustained pressure. It requires citizens who refuse to accept dysfunction as normal and officials who understand their role as serving public welfare rather than private interests.