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Overdoing Democracy - Why We Must Put Politics in its Place (Paperback)
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Overdoing Democracy - Why We Must Put Politics in its Place (Paperback)
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We live in an age of political polarization. As political beliefs
on the left and the right have been pulled closer to the extremes,
so have our social environments: we seldom interact with those with
whom we don't see eye to eye. Making matters worse, we are being
appealed to-by companies, products, and teams, for example-based on
our deep-seated, polarized beliefs. Our choice of Starbucks or
Dunkin' Donuts, Costco or Sam's Club, soccer or football, New York
Times vs. Wall Street Journal is an expression of our beliefs and a
reinforcement of our choice to stay within the confines of our
self-selected political community, making us even more polarized.
Letting it bleed into these choices in every corner of our lives,
we take democracy too far and it ends up keeping us apart. We
overdo democracy. When we overdo democracy, we allow it to
undermine and crowd out many of the most important social goods
that democracy is meant to deliver. What's more, in overdoing
democracy, we spoil certain social goods that democracy needs in
order to flourish. A thriving democracy needs citizens to reserve
space in their social lives for collective activities that are not
structured by political allegiances. To ensure the health and the
future of democracy, we need to forge civic friendships by working
together in social contexts in which political affiliations and
party loyalties are not merely suppressed, but utterly beside the
point. Drawing on his extensive research, Talisse sheds light on
just how deeply entrenched our political polarization has become
and opens our eyes to how often we allow politics to dictate the
way we see almost everything. By limiting our interactions with
others and our experience of the world so that we only encounter
the politically like-minded, we are actually damaging the thing
that democracy is meant to preserve in the first place: the more
fundamental good of recognizing and respecting each other's
standing equals.
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