The paper introduces the Arc of Democracy to visualise how systems move between functional and disordered states:

✅ Substantial - truth tested, voices heard, power constrained
⚙️ Performative - institutions go through the motions
⚠️ Disordered - democracy appears functional, but substance is inverted

Bianca’s

The root problem is the Ellisons, and billionaires.

We are going to have to use the FCC in the future to stop billionaire control of our media — as it was designed by its creators to do.