Ostromizing democracy

Originally published at pluralistic.net Reproduced under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license Cory Doctorow You know how “realist” has become a synonym for “asshole?” As in, “I’m not a racist, I’m just a ‘race realist?’” That same “realism” is also used to discredit the idea of democracy itself, among a group of self-styled “libertarian elitists,” […]

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