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Why Deliberation Never Dies–and Never Quite Matters
- kayo_20211030 9mo agoA very good piece. It's pretty insightful. I don't know anything about Fishkin; his proposed solution seems like it should work, but as the piece points out, it runs up hard against all the other things that can matter too. It's a bit like a fairy tale that we really, really want to be both true and instructive. A very true statement: > It reframes democratic failure as a problem of insufficient reflection rather than distorted incentives, institutional mistrust, or cultural fragmentation. They're the things with which the solution collides. They can't be ignored, and are often ultimately dispositive.