Beyond Spectacle: Democracy as Daily Practice Democracy isn't voting every few years. It's a way of life, co-creation, care, and collective power. To move beyond spectacle, we must reclaim democracy as daily practice, not performance.
Engineered to Fail: The Architecture of Democratic Decline American democracy isn’t malfunctioning—it’s performing exactly as designed. From gerrymandering to dark money to judicial capture, our institutions were architected to resist the people, not serve them.
The Theater of Managed Opposition Democratic resistance is theater—well-funded, consultant-driven spectacle that simulates opposition without risking real change. The show must go on, but the outcome was rigged from the start.
The Paradox of Performative Inclusion Diversity has become a shield for the status quo—celebrating “firsts” while the machinery of exclusion grinds on. Inclusion without transformation isn’t progress. It’s performance. And it’s working exactly as intended.
The Illusion of Democracy: Tolerance, Rigged Systems, and Authoritarian Drift What looks like democracy is often just theater. Carefully staged, cynically funded, and collapsing under the weight of its own rigging. It’s not broken. It’s built this way.