False Premises and Tired Narratives

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There’s an incessant narrative that goes like this: The US political system is broken and democracy is under attack. The rise of Trump and Jan 6 are pointed to as evidence. Please cancel all subscriptions to that narrative. The US political system is monumentally anti-democratic by design. By. Design. It always has been. That reality has become more pronounced, largely because of what you might call sociocultural evolution…