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A Brief Existential Rumination On Election Day

A Brief Existential Rumination On Election Day

Democracy is a good kind of frustrating

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Nov 08, 2022
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One core tragedy of democracy is that it means sharing power with people who are radically different than me. As I write this people are lining up to the polls and many of those people experience the world in ways that are baffling and incomprehensible to someone like me - they hate what I love and love what I hate, they see people like me and my way of…

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