“We live in a society that is based on 30-second sound bites. We havetechnology that puts all of the information of humankind at our fingertips,but we have the attention span of a three-year-old at a carnivalmidway on the Fourth of July. We throw around a lot of words likedemocracy, federal, republic, nationalist, socialist, liberal, and right-wing—butdo we really know what they mean?”

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