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How many places are democratic that are a platform for democratic discourse?


Local town halls, city council meetings, and things of that nature. Which is to say: not many (and over the duration of our democracy, they have not scaled with technology in the way that propaganda has: newspapers, then talk radio, then evening TV news, then 24/7 TV news, and now the rage-o-sphere)




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