🌰 Democracy Requires Active Maintenance

It rings so true to me that democracy must be communally built, fiercely protected, and lovingly repaired. All of that demands constant work from its occupants.

We do that work by:

educating ourselves and our children
fighting for everyone’s right to vote
protecting our government from our politicians
learning to love and empathize with our fellow occupants

(Occupants was such a hard word to find for this: [[🌰 What do you call a person who resides inside a society or nation？Citizen or resident doesn’t always apply to the whole group that matters.]])

Related to:

[[🌰 demands of democracy]]
[[🗨️ The assumption that things can get better, with the expectation that they should, creates the kind of social ferment that yields progress.]]
This great relevant post by Alexander Stubb:

Democracy has to be defended, developed and nurtured every day. Never a given.

Election results are often over-dramatised. Some commentators forget that democracy is precisely about the opportunity vote for change - good or bad.

And then we move on, until the next election.

Inspiration:

“It demands of ordinary men and women a degree of skill with complexity and a degree of forbearance with human affairs.” - The Radical Liberal
- I found the article as a whole….a little dense with unclear motivation. The author’s goal seemed to be to inspire love and appreciation for liberalism. It loosely works, I agree with some of what the author said, but I wasn’t drawn in. It was a little hard to read and he didn’t really go into much evidence for his claims. So it made it a little hard to love, imo. There were some good quotes, though.

Every post on this blog is a work in progress. Phrasing may be less than ideal, ideas may not yet be fully thought through. Thank you for watching me grow.

🌰 Democracy Requires Active Maintenance

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