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Their actions eventually require a strong force to step in and bring order. Their little experiment is eventually going to lead to the need for a strong force to come in and bring order ; it is destined to fail otherwise.
And perhaps that is what the Democrats and liberal progressive elites are hoping for. You see, the American citizens who turn to chaos and mob rule are mere pawns in a game. Their emotions and actions are being skillfully and tactfully manipulated and moved about by the elites. Mobs lose all sense of rationality and reason and are therefore easily manipulated. The progressive elites know this and they know that if they want to have any chance of eliminating the Constitution and taking complete control of the country, they must throw the country into such disarray and chaos that the only remedy is the iron fist of tyranny.
The mob is not looking for truth. In fact, they are looking for anything but truth. The rise of what the presidential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Modern presidents rule by executive order rather than consulting with Congress.
They direct a massive administrative state, with jurisdiction over everything from environmental policy to the regulation of the airwaves. During the 20th century, the Supreme Court also became both more powerful and more divided. The Court struck down federal laws two times in the first 70 years of American history, just over 50 times in the next 75 years, and more than times since Beginning with the appointment of Anthony Kennedy, in , the Court became increasingly polarized between justices appointed by Republican presidents and justices appointed by Democratic presidents.
Exacerbating all this political antagonism is the development that might distress Madison the most: media polarization, which has allowed geographically dispersed citizens to isolate themselves into virtual factions, communicating only with like-minded individuals and reinforcing shared beliefs.
Far from being a conduit for considered opinions by an educated elite, social-media platforms spread misinformation and inflame partisan differences. Indeed, people on Facebook and Twitter are more likely to share inflammatory posts that appeal to emotion than intricate arguments based on reason. The passions, hyper-partisanship, and split-second decision making that Madison feared from large, concentrated groups meeting face-to-face have proved to be even more dangerous from exponentially larger, dispersed groups that meet online.
Unless the Supreme Court reinterprets the First Amendment, allowing the government to require sites like Twitter and Facebook to suppress polarizing speech that falls short of intentional incitement to violence—an ill-advised and, at the moment, thankfully unlikely prospect—any efforts to encourage deliberation on those platforms will have to come from the platforms themselves.
Still, some promising, if modest, fixes are on the horizon. The company now prioritizes those articles users have actually taken the time to read. But these and other solutions could have First Amendment implications. Of course, the internet can empower democratic deliberation as well as threaten it, allowing dissenters to criticize the government in ways the Founders desired. And although our national politics is deadlocked by partisanship, compromise remains possible at the local level, where activism—often organized online—can lead to real change.
Federalism remains the most robust and vibrant Madisonian cooling mechanism, and continues to promote ideological diversity. At the moment, the combination of low voter turnout and ideological extremism has tended to favor very liberal or very conservative candidates in primaries. Thanks to safe districts created by geographic self-sorting and partisan gerrymandering, many of these extremists go on to win the general election. Today, all congressional Republicans fall to the right of the most conservative Democrat, and all congressional Democrats fall to the left of the most liberal Republican.
In the s, at times, 50 percent of the lawmakers overlapped ideologically. Voters in several states are experimenting with alternative primary systems that might elect more moderate representatives. The best way of promoting a return to Madisonian principles, however, may be one Madison himself identified: constitutional education.
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