plebeians

But at the half-capacity show, there was plenty of space among us general-admission plebeians to not feel claustrophobic — even with a three-sided tent covering the soundboard dividing the lawn-chair and blanket crowd, which set up on either side of the view-obstructing necessity here in the rainy Northwest to get a clear shot of the stage.

As he and Teixeira write in the book, “The Democratic Party has had its greatest success when it sought to represent the common man and woman against the rich and powerful, the people against the elite, and the plebeians against the patricians.”

But there are good deals for us plebeians if you know where to look.

While the common people of ancient Rome were called plebeians, which word was used for a member of the Roman aristocracy?

The argument for that kind of decentralization is simple: You prevent the big, bad platform police from setting opaque, possibly biased standards that dictate the daily lives of helpless plebeians, and instead allow those plebeians to choose their own Twitter adventure.