You can’t be a democracy and an oligarchy at the same time. Either the country belongs to all of us or the country belongs only to a few of us. This is the deepest existential question about who we are and who we want to be.
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Actually that’s the irony of this country; that it was. But out of the 56 signers of the Dec of Ind, 41 were slaveowners. So obviously we’ve never fully embodied those principles, but all the great social justice movement were efforts to get there (and longer ago than 100 years).
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