What does rhetoric has to do with democracy

Democracy  means  rule by “the people,” and has inspired political action for centuries and  around the world. But the word also raises a  question:  Who are the people? And who  gets to decide? Can a “people” arise and rule  a country? What would it take for this to happen? Do the people have to elect  a representative? Is that person representative?

Answering these questions is the work of rhetoric.  Rhetoric is all about  understanding how people—both individual persons and “the people”—can, and perhaps ought to be persuaded. How and why,  do we change our minds?

Rhetoric’s questions, in other words, are the  questions that democracy must answer.

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one thousand and one nights, also known as arabian nights is a collection of stories whose basic structure is that of embedded narrative. this technique refers to a main story which works as the common frame - or framing narrative - for the other stories, and then this series of stories which are connected to the main one. this technique can also be referred to as a story within a story. the stories stem from the original tale, some begin and end on their own, some are connected to the previous or following one, by means of questions that are answered in the subsequent tale, or characters which reappear.