Democracy is predicated on idea that enough discourse will yield common ground. Serious question for believers: ever seen that happen once?
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there is a group norm of, whenever an argument seems intractable, stating the axioms you are...
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...operating on. usually the opposite party can reconstruct the view on the basis of this and see...
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...how it is reasonable given the starting place
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part of me wonders if the framers didn't experience the joy of this social dynamic and hope to...
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...share it with the body politic at large
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They may well have, but if they sought to share it broadly they must not have fully grasped from whence the cohesion came.
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Its reminiscent of the stellar cycle, start with small concentrated powerful group, gradually grow big and weak. Eventually explode.
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