The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.
Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.
Without the ability to criticize unjust laws in powerful symbolic ways, we can't change them. And the point of a democracy is that people should be able to convince other people to change a law.
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.
Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations.
The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn.
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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