Nathaniel Gregory<p>I remembered in a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreenSocialist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenSocialist</span></a> Livestream I made a comment to Howie Hawkins, "I'd argue we have no <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a>, but we will create the democracy that we were told we live in."</p><p>A Democracy should be <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/direct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>direct</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/participatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>participatory</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deliberative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deliberative</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/radical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radical</span></a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/revolutionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>revolutionary</span></a>.</p><p>All of which ours isn't.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgQ22IOe-KE&t=2001s" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=XgQ22IOe-K</span><span class="invisible">E&t=2001s</span></a></p>