Steve Randy Waldman on Nostr: with apologies to Mencken, democracy is not when the people get what they want good ...
with apologies to Mencken, democracy is not when the people get what they want good and hard, but when government is responsive to the people but able to distinguish signal from noise, without any king or higher authority arrogating the role of deciding what’s signal. 4/
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