Of course I have put some things differently than Professor Rosenberg, I am a (slightly) different homo. I would have put things better grammatically than Professor Rosenberg; I would never have released a paper with the shocking number of typographical errors as this one. But window dressing. There is only one substantive point that Professor Rosenberg makes to which I say
In a section of the paper titled "The persistence of democratic governance" (how it has continued so long with so much Trump manure about), Professor Rosenberg states,
"perhaps most important is the effect of the capitalist organization of the economy."
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Capitalism,
"emancipates and empowers individuals...in a way that parallels and supports the democratic structuring of political life."
I mean...
It has been a staple of the Republican creed for generations that democratic government must be run "more like a business," that is less like a democracy. “This is not a democracy!" gazillions of bosses in business have told their drone employees. When America turned away from Jefferson's farmer-citizen model of democracy and began industrializing a jurisprudential turning point was a Supreme Court ruling that one man-one vote did not extend from the political realm to the economic. Work place democracy was not compelled by the Constitution. Work place authoritarianism was permitted, and it flourished. Capitalist business does not support democratic political life. It gives the lie to it. Every American with a job spends eight or more hours of the day in a thoroughly unequal, undemocratic, authoritarian environment. That environment literally supplies their bread and butter. Then they go home and turn on the electronic television machine and see the president, their political "boss," overruled by Congress or stymied by the courts and they're to think, "I'm so proud of our democratic political system"? No, they don’t! God, no!” they don't think that. They flick off the television or change the channel and think disgustedly "We oughta run this government more like a bidness! You're Fired!" As Trump's presidential model, Andrew Jackson, said, "John Marshall has made his ruling. Let him enforce it."
That is the only fundamental disagreement I have with Professor Rosenberg.
