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Trump Kicks Down the Guardrails
youtube.com“open parliament” movement, experimenting with a range of ways to make parliamentary procedures transparent to the public and experimenting with innovative voting methods.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
According to Putnam, the more we prioritize our private bubbles over public life, the more we disconnect from our local surroundings. This has weakened American democracy. Fewer people are engaged in politics, and those who do are often at the political poles. With less social capital, our neighborhoods are connected by fewer informal, reciprocal t... See more
From 1985 to 1994, active involvement in community organizations fell by nearly half. The decline was astonishingly broad, affecting just about every social activity and every demographic group that Putnam tracked.
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
We are not polarized from each other. We are polarized from our electeds.” The majority of Americans believe the economy is benefitting the rich and harming the poor. The majority believe the rich aren’t paying their fair share in taxes. The majority support a $15 federal minimum wage.[7] Why, then, aren’t our elected officials representing the wil
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Mansbridge | Journal of Deliberative Democracy
delibdemjournal.orgIn another timeline, Yarvin might have remained an obscure and ineffectual internet crank, a digital de Maistre. Instead, he has become one of America’s most influential illiberal thinkers, an engineer of the intellectual source code for the second Trump Administration. “Yarvin has pushed the Overton window,” Nikhil Pal Singh, a history professor a... See more