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Since things do not attain such fulfillment but are in actuality distracted and interfered with, democracy in this sense is not a fact and never will be.
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John Dewey
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gutenberg.orgJohn Dewey: “Since things do not attain such fulfillment but are in actuality distracted and interfered with, democracy in this sense…”
Editor's note · Context
Dewey notes that democracy, as an ideal, is never fully realized due to real-world distractions.
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