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Making the case for person to person, community to community, democracy with advanced guardrails (an   ideals   algorithm ), and more strategically and comprehensively involving a much larger percentage of Americans. Photo by   Unseen Histories   on   Unsplash . . Essay originally published on Medium . . We must unlearn the theories that are distrustful of, or antagonistic towards,   direct democracy , so we are able to survive and thrive, and continue   our experiment   at an unassailable   social distance   from autocracy, aristocracy, plutocracy, and dictatorship. That unlearning will also help us shed the rhetorical dilemma, and institutional perception, and indoctrination, of socialism and capitalism that causes so many rifts in our politics. There is an advanced form of direct democracy that does not require a separate economic theory. Citizens and workers decide how our economics will be arranged and our civic interactions will be...

Photo by   Debby Hudson   on  Unsplash First published on Medium . . Obviously, I cannot be a racist, my first best friend was black. Shoot, my   dad fought antisemitism   during WWII, and racism in the 1960s and 1970s, and ableism until his death. As a white person, I am too proud to see racism in myself, and that makes me   feel   superior.   Characteristically , it allows me to hold onto my white privilege without feeling guilty. . By ignoring the telltale signs of hubris, I can be anything I think I am. This is where white people are   definitely   superior than others. Not seeing what is on the tip of our noses provides the bliss we ignorantly crave. And if you have seen my nose, you would know how my difficulty stretches into a whole new realm.   But please do not think this is just some drawn out Pinocchio caricature. Especially since I cannot draw to save my lily-white, wrinkled ass. . White people in general cannot be racis...