Ghost Democracy: when the rituals remain, but the relationship is gone.
When you can vote, protest, petition… and still be treated like you don’t exist.

I wrote an essay on Alberta’s “Sixth Sense” moment—speaking urgently, only to realize you’re already dead to power.

https://lawrencenault.substack.com/p/ghost-democracy

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Ghost Democracy

When protest becomes ritual, petitions become props, and your voice becomes background noise.

Lawrence Nault