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Today this is one of the costs Americans pay for living in a democracy — the thing Winston Churchill called “the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried.”
“If people are coming to talk about things that are just culture war igniters and have nothing to do with city business, it doesn’t help us productively run the city,” said Dannielle Larkin, a member of the council. Some government bodies lead their meetings with an open public comment period. They set a fair but firm time limit on all speakers, make a request that everyone keep a civil tongue, and let everybody talk until they’ve exhausted themselves — and, after that, the board can get on with the people’s business.
It’s not a perfect solution, and some would call it idealistic. Some “harmful speech,” like obscenity and hate speech, isn’t so easily countered by more speech. The hope is that, if everyone gets their moment to speak, everyone will hear each other’s viewpoints — something that happens less frequently these days, as people retreat to their self-contained bubbles on the right or left.
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