So all these grassroots ways to build more legitimacy than the authoritarian government eventually, when Taiwan democratized and we finally voted for our president in ‘96, all the initial politicians needed to pay more than lip service to the social sector, to the plural sector, because they were the ones that enjoyed much higher legitimacy than the political class at the time. So my advice is to start hyperlocal, to start communal, to use exactly the same methods we talk about—radical transparency, bridging, broad listening, and common ground—but starting from the solidarity economy, from social entrepreneurship, for the civic health, if not the democratic health.

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