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Podcast: Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show
Episode: The Actual Attack on Democracy
Description: In the aftermath of the “Memorial to Democracy” last week, one is left to wonder if the meaning of the word “irony” has any impact on those who demand that we remember “democracy” as if it were something that a couple of thousand yaboos managed to kill in a single afternoon.
One of the bedrock principles of the so-called “American” democracy (which was NOT a democracy until the definition changed in the early 1900s) is the concept of freedom of speech. In fact, it’s right there, enshrined in the US Constitution, guaranteed to be protected. Through our history variou...