Defenders

7. Massively Parallel Roles & Tasks

All the roles listed so far (included here and the three earlier roles posts) are focused on the many citizens that are making good-faith efforts to help democracies overcome the many challenges associated with self-governance in an era of enormous societal scale, complexity, and diversity. We call our last group of roles "Defenders" because they are focused on defending these good-faith efforts from attacks by the many groups who seek to profit by inflaming tensions and undermining democratic institutions. These "bad-faith actors" include "profiteers "who have found ways to monetize political conflict for personal benefit, advocacy groups that go beyond appeals for fair treatment and want to dominate and suppress their political rivals, "alienated nihilists" who hate the system and want to destroy it, and authoritarian geopolitical rivals who seek to weaken and attack Western democracies.  Those fighting against these bad-faith actors fall into six broad subcategories: 

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