There are many connections to a well functioning democracy and the liberal arts is one of them. But something bigger is lacking.

Recently I published an article on Noam Chomsky.

https://medium.com/politically-speaking/chasing-noam-chomsky-is-futile-46bc42bf6395

This article has garnered 10x my usual average, which is good, I guess. But it seems this article's readers are missing the point I was trying to make.

In 1988, Dr. Chomsky wrote a popular book (which is still popular today). He has had lots of media attention over the years to espouse his ideas. He is a great communicator.

Yet after 35 years, the world seems to be moving away from his work, which is the main point I was trying to make.

I've been on Medium for four years. I am trying to promote a new kind of democracy. There should be no doubt that I have encountered enough people with liberal arts education about this idea. And yet, they have more or less spurned this idea.

Dr. Chomsky, similar thinkers, and their many fans believe that they can bend the will of the overly ambitious people who aspire for public office--by applying public pressure in the right ways, times, and places. Maybe this technique worked in the 1970s, but today it is falling short.

The liberal arts thinkers seem to be stuck in ways that do not work. If they are indeed liberal thinkers, should they not be investigating new ways?

So the solution of encouraging more liberal arts education seems like an empty path to me.

We really need a new democracy.