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> feedback loops maintaining the regulation at that "goldilocks" point of balance.

That is why a democracy with well functioning institutions is important. Power is fractured so that there are many checks and balances.

It's important that we have the right to criticize the government, and to keep those in power in check.

We don't need to ensure every dickhead can deny the Holocaust, or call black people monkeys, or claim that 5G technology is a conspiracy to kill those that take vaccines to ensure we have proper rights to speech in that 'goldilocks" zone.




> Power is fractured so that there are many checks and balances.

Except that power has been centralized: see the national debt.




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