Real political equality is the key metric
Around the world, politics seems to make us emotional and angry. But this intensity does not stem from too much democracy, but too little, argues legal and political scholar Jedediah Purdy in Two Cheers for Politics: Why Democracy is Flawed, Frightening and Our Best Hope.
Those who feel appalled and demoralised by public affairs often turn with relief to daily life, set up private forms of escape from the wreckage created by other people. Or they resort to a cynicism that the country has never been good and had this coming.
Those who feel appalled and demoralised by public affairs often turn with relief to daily life, set up private forms of escape from the wreckage created by other people. Or they resort to a cynicism that the country has never been good and had this coming.