A good piece on tensions btw democracy at a human scale and the mass/social-media circuses “Our Democracy” has become at a national level.

Person-to-person interaction is the core and essence of a democratic polity. Democracy is an ethos of mutual respect and curiosity. Inevitable institutional imperfections will be more than sufficient to break it if you don’t have that. “Professional” is to politics as it is to wrestling. by offmessage.net/p/what-i-learne ht @ryanlcooper