What about one that allows concessions outside, though? How might a vendor be able to set up shop, maybe for a small fee? Or should the public conversation be a designated no-enterprise zone?

Ideally, ethics would prevent us from mixing business with politics and pleasure, but maybe there is a balance that would allow for a way to fund these social projects we say we value so highly, but turn out our pockets when it's time to drop a dollar into the plate as it gets passed by.

I'm tired of watching democratic institutions shrivel and die only to be replaced by plastic replicas.

Seemingly fundamental forces keep tearing down our Towers of Babel, and I wonder if we'll ever learn that the best organizational patterns for humanity are smaller groups responsible to and holding responsible the state. Whenever we try to do things bigger than that, we end up getting all authoritarian and creepy.