- Conditions needed for a healthy democracy
- Engaged citizenry
- Democracy is not healthy if wide swaths of voters don’t actively think about political issues outside of a narrow campaign season.
- Informed citizenry
- Voters can’t make rational choices based on misinformation.
- They need a fundamentally accurate understanding of the issues at hand.
- They need a fundamentally accurate understanding of the candidates before them.
- They need a knowledge of relevant history to give context to the issues at play—including context to what issues ought to be relevant at the time.
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