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Others see the battle as a classic case of small-town democracy grappling with cosmic questions in a state where local communities are given wide latitude to set their own school curriculums.
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MANCHESTER, N.H. — There's a belief among some that the New Hampshire primary is nothing but a media spectacle, one in which out-of-state supporters, protesters, members of the news media and tourists engage in a contrived sound-stage ideal of a "quaint small-town democracy" in a circuslike atmosphere.
In other words, without economic democracy – and the constitutional reforms needed to enable the people to control executive power – Cameron's invitation to join the government conjures up a toy-town democracy, a patronising attempt to divert our anger from the real centres of power.
Now residents who have known one another all their lives but cannot remember ever voting in a municipal election are left wrestling with what exactly it means to be a town, testing democracy in its raw form.
And in a scene more appropriate to a totalitarian regime than to our Rockwellian vision of small-town American democracy, this same element drowned out a Hispanic witness at a town meeting by chanting the Pledge of Allegiance while marching out of the meeting.
Tocqueville treads a delicate balance: while he believes that the pure springs of American town-meeting democracy can be polluted by materialism, he also believes that materialism is one of the things that keep the springwater of American democracy from being stained with blood.
