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  • An Open Letter in Defense of Democracy; The future of democracy in the United States is in danger. (William Kristol & Noam Chomsky et al loserfest/barf alert)

    10/27/2021 4:19:51 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 17 replies
    The Bulwark ^ | October 27, 2021 | TODD GITLIN, JEFFREY C. ISAAC, AND WILLIAM KRISTOL
    [This open letter is being published simultaneously by The Bulwark and the New Republic.]We are writers, academics, and political activists who have long disagreed about many things.Some of us are Democrats and others Republicans. Some identify with the left, some with the right, and some with neither. We have disagreed in the past, and we hope to be able to disagree, productively, for years to come. Because we believe in the pluralism that is at the heart of democracy.But right now we agree on a fundamental point: We need to join together to defend liberal democracy.Because liberal democracy itself is...
  • The Swamps of Jersey ~ John Fund

    06/02/2005 4:13:04 AM PDT · by Elle Bee · 20 replies · 672+ views
    The Wall Street Journal. ^ | June 2, 2005 | John H. Fund
    TRENTON, N.J. -- This year's race for governor finds the residents of the Garden State in a surly mood. Personal and financial scandals forced Democrat Jim McGreevey to resign last year, and the recent release of taped conversations between a South Jersey Democratic boss and other pols have only deepened a public perception that the state's local governments are dominated by a public-sector version of the Soprano family.