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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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From: S. maltophilia10/10/2025 10:09:42 PM
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How Can We Share a Country If We Don’t Share a Reality?

Christopher Armitage

Oct 10, 2025

Note from the author: An earlier version of this piece appeared under a different title. This version includes substantial revisions, additional research, and expanded arguments.

Democracy is worth defending. But there’s a foundational requirement for it to function that we rarely talk about explicitly, perhaps because it seemed too obvious to require articulation: we have to agree about what has actually happened in the world. I don’t mean we need to agree about what events mean (we can argue endlessly about whether a given policy was wise or disastrous, whether a political figure deserves praise or condemnation). But we do need to be able to converge on the basic facts of....

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