Last week's column

I didn't get around to posting my column last week. Here it is.

[I]n addition to the collective bargaining conflagration there’s a less overt — yet incredibly important — dispute over electoral mandates and, consequently, democratic citizenship...

Elections are important. They provide voters with an accountability mechanism and spur conversation about some of the most important topics of the day...

But reducing citizenship to merely voting for elites is a fatuous bastardization of democracy.