James Madison on Majority Rule, Factionalism, and the Common Good

Bruce Gatenby
5 min readApr 22, 2021

The greater the obstacles, the more freedom from oppression

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We act as if Twitter has created a shit-show of opinions, that there was once some golden age of unity and mutual respect in argument before social media became the popular go-to place for moronic opinions and mob idiocy.

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Bruce Gatenby

London based writer and X Professor. Writing. Ph.D. U of Arizona.