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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Democracy also means allowing the people to form and discuss their ideas, on their own terms, whether sane or stupid. Not because that's necessarily best, but because that's democracy - authority belongs to the people not to their government.

The responsibility to lead and guide people's ideas, in a democracy, does not lie in the strict control of government, it lies elsewhere. Where that elsewhere is, of course, everyone will argue differently. But not, I think, in governmental control.