Stop Trying to ‘Save’ Democracy
Or Waiting on a Politician To Do It for You. Instead, Practice It—At Work, School, and Little League
Please don’t save democracy.
If you’re a politician—stop promising to save it.
Please! Stop even trying.
Because you can’t. Democracy isn’t something you save. The sooner we stop talking about saving democracy, the better off democracy will be.
Our mindless recitation of “saving democracy”—everyone from President Biden to Sacha Baron Cohen has pledged to come to its rescue—demonstrates how little we understand about the governing systems that organize our lives.
To start, the words “democracy” and “save” don’t fit together.
Democracy is not a penalty shot that can be saved by a goalkeeper. Democracy is not …