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	Demagoguery and Democracy 4.19 avg rating — 626 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Speaking of Race 3.85 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2021 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deliberate Conflict: Argument, Political Theory, and Composition Classes 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rhetoric and Demagoguery 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voices in the Wilderness: Public Discourse and the Paradox of Puritan Rhetoric 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rhetoric of Fascism by Nathan Crick (Contributor), Patrick D. Anderson (Contributor), Rya Butterfield (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fanatical Schemes: Proslavery Rhetoric and the Tragedy of Consensus 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Rhetoric and Religion in the Twenty-First Century: Pluralism in a Postsecular Age by Michael-John Depalma (Editor), Martin Camper (Foreword), Jonathan Alexander (Goodreads Author) (Afterword) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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What should opponents of authoritarianism do?

[I posted this on FB, but I should have posted it here also.]

People keep asking me what opponents of our authoritarian administation should be doing, and it’s pretty straightforward in the abstract but very much up for argument in the specific:

DO WHAT HAS WORKED IN THE PAST, AND DON’T DO WHAT HAS NEVER WORKED.

Things that, as far as I know, have worked in the past under similar circumstances:
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The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians, and Other Remarkable People

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The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History

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Death in Sicily: The First Three Novels in the Inspector Montalbano Series--The Shape of Water; The Terra-Cotta Dog; The Snack Thief (An Inspector Montalbano Mystery)

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“We need to enter the conversation willing to be wrong, willing to admit the limits of our own knowledge, willing to reconsider our evidence, sources, and premises. That is self-skepticism.”
― Patricia Roberts-Miller, Demagoguery and Democracy

tags: argument, authoritarianism, debate, demagoguery, intellectual-humility, politics, rhetoric, self-skepticism

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“Democracy is about disagreement, uncertainty, complexity, and making mistakes. It's about having to listen to arguments you think are obviously completely wrong; it's about being angry with other people, and their being angry with you. It's about it all taking much longer to get something passed that you think reasonable, and about taking a long time resisting some policy you think is dipshit. Democracy is about having to listen, and compromise, and it's about being wrong (and admitting it). It's about guessing - because the world is complicated - the best course of action, and trying to look at things from various perspectives, and letting people with those various perspectives participate in the conversation.

Democracy is hard; demagoguery is easy.”
― Patricia Roberts-Miller, Demagoguery and Democracy

tags: argument, authoritarianism, debate, demagoguery, democracy, politics

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“We are all wrong at some times and to some degree. A person who claims never to have been wrong is simply a person with a very convenient memory.”
― Patricia Roberts-Miller, Demagoguery and Democracy

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