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Category: Democracy
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How could it have happened? The tea-baggers! The angry white mobs at the town meetings! The Republicans! Are these today’s “populists?” The media loves to throw the noun “populist” on these folks, claiming they are the “common people,” or “ordinary folks.” And the reporters use the word “angry” to describe them. Yet, are these folks…
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I fear for democracy. To survive, a democratic nation needs an educated citizenry and a citizenry that appreciates the values that created that Society. In the USA, we all praise our Founding Fathers (there were no women in the early forming of our government nearly 225 years ago) for setting a vision that has created…
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