Take heart, three counties in Idaho went Democratic this past election,
not my own, I'm sorry to say. The previous election was a clean sweep
for the Republicans. Of course, that didn't win any representation, but
it surely did help my feelings.
We also have a Green Party, but it's green as in
This essay was written as though the polls themselves were not
already contaminated. As though intelligent and charismatic liberal
politicians in this country have not been culled through assasination
or media-fueled scandals in this country since the Kennedy
assasination. (I mean, folks, do
Title: Re: OT:FW: Watching democracy die (and be reborn?)
In the current form of democracy, they take the power and we, the
people, take the blame for everything. Votes never count for much as
long as the ruling powers pick your choices.
-Allan
Well written it was worth the effort
I would add critical thinking to Stacey's four requirements for democracy, maybe you
could say it's a subset of true literacy - but it certainly seems to have declined
drastically in the past three decades.
BTW, this thread brings to mind a novel by Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here, about
