Crucially, the article and the report neglect that Politics is just as much about how we manage, share, and mediate the space between us in (ideally) mutually-beneficial ways as it is about policy or law or institution, something Jefferson knew well.
And while the report and the article boringly continue to unreflectively worship ‘our’ “forefathers” for being “extremely adept” at turning their radical privilege into productive “Civic” conversation, it hardly notes Jefferson’s ultimate inability to Constitutionally-furnish (and protect) forums known as Wards (spaces of communal, popular participation).
Finally, the article – like many – painfully scapegoats “complainers” as a primary enemy of a verdant democracy, disregarding that they are a byproduct of a polity that systemically fails to provide its own citizens with ample, gainful and accessible participatory opportunities, remarkably suggesting we could achieve Ultimate Citizenry status by voting regularly-enough on other's initiatives or by more religiously showing up in court, all welcome prescriptions but which still, nevertheless fail to effectively involve Me and You.
