Two sentences in an artical in Financial times "Likewise, our own democracies, imperfect though they may be, are the culmination of the culture of the written word. Mr Apkon notes how Kennedy, in those 1960 debates, “tapped into a lever in the psyche more primal than mere facts”." What has Kennedy got to do with the previous sentence about democracy. I mean Kennedy's words touched our soul, which is stated in the latter sentence, so what has it got to do with imperfect democracy? The underlying connection between these two sentences is really driving me crazy? Really can't figure this out. Thank you so much for helping me figure this out...