The Fulcrum: “A Good Democracy Requires Disagreement, Conflict and Argument” (Oct. 7, 2020)

“Civil or not, democracy is designed to let people argue their differences out and come to a compromise that serves the good of the whole. In other words: Disagreement, conflict and argument are a feature of democracy, not a bug.”

Read the rest at: https://thefulcrum.us/big-picture/civil-discourse

Published by Ryan Skinnell

Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing, Department of English & Comparative Literature, San José State University, San Jose, CA

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