Public meetings are great  In our society we are in a constant war – a war of ideas. Democracy is a never ending battle of ideas. It is messy. It is loud. It’s dangerous, pointy and sharp. It is never settled. If we don’t revel in that, if we don’t take on some risk with courage, we give up our sovereignty as citizens. Democracy is the argument we have with ourselves about the shape of things to come. The future is about ideas. If we let some group or other control the ideas they will control the future.   What Carly Rae Jepsen understands about life, business, and the economy that the government doesn't
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