Witness

DEMOCRACY can start from commotion, but also from solitude. When the Greeks spoke of the demos, they were imagining something plural, just as the Indonesian-Malay word rakyat never connotes a solitary entity. So people always link democracy with the crowd—often rowdy, and not far removed from the word "demonstration".

But something seems not quite right when elections are called "festivals of democracy". Festivals a

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