Nelson: democracy not just institutionalised, everyday conversations between citizens.
Nelson: democracy not just institutionalised, everyday conversations between citizens.
Nelson: we can be optimistic, need to be less enchanted with President, we can see this in recent popular culture.
Q (from me): can we be optimistic about this? Can we have common’s democracy today?
Nelson: we shouldn’t have to choose between self-rule and a terrorist attack
Nelson: branch power and checking important, we need more of this democratic process
Q: what percentage of these controversial decisions have to do with foreign policy?
Nelson: over time we despise Congress; Obama responding to recalcitrant branch, but at same time he was always going to extend powers
Q: how can Congress deal with this unitary executive? Are they to blame for being ineffectual?
Q: Obama’s passing transatlantic and transpacific trade laws as an ‘assaulting democracy’?
Nelson: democracy needs disagreement and disunity, not just agreement and unity.