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“We are treating our democracy like a spectator sport,” he remarked, his gaze sweeping the room with the intensity of a man who knows his time on the stage is finite. He noted that while millions watch the “sideshow” of partisan bickering on their screens, the actual infrastructure of the neighborhood—the school board, the local precinct, the community center—is being hollowed out by cynicism. The warning landed with a heavy, resonant thud: a country that cannot speak to itself cannot govern itself.
