HORIZONTAL DEMOCRACY - by Sheldon Wolin (Part 2 of 2)
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The US doesn’t have a democracy.... Because all of our institutions are hierarchical in structure, and hierarchies are fundamentally anti-democratic. Boo-Ya!
Brilliant minds are often prophetic. Sheldon Wolin is a political philosopher, professor emeritus of Princeton University, and a writer on contemporary politics. This interview is from 1989 and it couldn't be more relevant today.