Tag: Retail Politics
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Democrats Govern, Republicans Rule; There’s A Difference
Whatever “it” is the news media thinks both sides do? They don’t. And pretty much never have done. Though our corporate press insists Democrats and Republicans are variations on the same theme, they could not be more dissimilar. If the last decade has demonstrated anything – again and again and again – it’s that Democrats…
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Things Both Sides DON’T Do
Some day, when Donald Trump is behind us and the Republican Party lies beside the Whigs in the American History Cemetery, we’ll have to turn our gaze on the news media. The press utterly failed us at the moment we most needed them to fulfill their Constitutionally mandated role as the last check on power.…
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Our Retail Politics Are Killing Democracy
In theory anyway, Democracy’s simple: In self-government, the majority of the people get to call the shots. It’s understood that the majority is made up of a multiplicity of views because it includes so much of the citizenry. “What do the citizens want?” That’s the first question. But it needs to be accompanied by ‘But,…