Democracy and civic freedoms aren't a stable end state. Their continued existence requires buy-in and support from a majority of citizens. When citizens no longer care, the enemies of democracy will start rolling it all back
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America did have one shot to shape the future of the world for a very long time to come. When, where, what, why, and how did we get it wrong?
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Bread and Circus worked in the Roman Empire. Until it failed. Similarly these days.
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I was talking about the chance to spread liberal democracy around the world and the containment of communism/china. Facebook and Fox News are simply a platform that is used to amplify domestic divisions.
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The fall of the "fairness doctrine" and the rise of Fox News plus Citizens United put American politics in a crazy place.
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