The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
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We cannot be accountable to the citizens of our country if we go into closed session or secret session and the people in country are all of a sudden cut out that would be a terrible thing to do in a representative democracy.
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