Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.
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Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.
We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.
Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.
But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.
Our democracy relies on participation, and we've never done better by excluding folks.
Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.
Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.
Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.
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.
We're not a democracy.