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Jiang begins his answer about the king catalogue by proposing that Dante wants totality and democratic reach: he speaks to everyone and uses even bad kings to build role models and preserve hope for repentance.
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"I'm just a little bit confused about what would you say is the major point of the long canto where he lists all the..."
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"...of completion. Right? So he wants... So at his heart, he's democratic. So he's trying to speak to everyone. And he's trying to give..."
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"...The difference between this and this is... First of all, it's democratic. It means anyone, everyone participates in this system. Purgatory was designed for..."
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"...has to be the case. Why does it have to be democratic, hopeful, in terms of action, and it has to be merciful and..."
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"...with his cosmology that God is love. Because if it's not democratic, not everyone can participate. It's only for the elite or the rich...."
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"I mean, that just shows, like, Virgil, uh, Dante's democratic sense, right? Everyone can make it to heaven if they really will it, like,..."
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"...but, you know, in 2020, when Pete Buttigieg ran for the Democratic nomination, his homosexuality made him very popular. All right? So my question..."
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"...people to understand is at the heart of Dante is his democratic spirit. Okay? He is absolutely anti -power, anti -hierarchy, anti -status. Right?..."
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"...in New York City, I think he could potentially be a Democratic frontrunner. I think he could possibly be, in like four years' time,..."
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"...to die tomorrow, that would change the entire world. If the Democratic Party in the United States picked a leader who is as charismatic..."
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"...most hopeless part of the United States right now is the Democratic Party. But if the Democratic Party were to say, you know what,..."
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"...going to be a war going on between the globalists, um, democratic elite versus the, um, nationalists, Republican, uh, tech elite. Um, so, so,..."
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