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Bigger Than Wisconsin
The implications of the recall elections in Wisconsin Tuesday are huge. What happens will tell us much about the political landscape and balance of power in America. Have the Republicans, personified...
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Bad News From the Badger State
The failure of Democrats to pick up more than two of the six state senate seats in Wisconsin is immensely discouraging. As I wrote yesterday: “If the huge amounts of campaign money sent in to sabotage...
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Democracy R.I.P.
Thom Hartmann echoes what I’ve been writing, the 2010 Citizens United decision of the conservative Supreme Court has destroyed what was left of our democracy. Hartmann is more generous in saying we are...
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The Future of American Elections
The spending on Tuesday’s Wisconsin state senate recall election exceeded $35 million, according to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, which tracks political money. Some believe it will top $40 million....
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Wisconsin: The Final Nail in the Coffin of American Democracy
by Arlen Grossman/ The Big Picture Report American Democracy had struggled on life support for many years. It took its final breath on January 21, 2010, when a conservative Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in...
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AND THE GOOD NEWS IS……WHAT?
Broken Shards Of The Heart By David Michael Green/ OpEdNews/ June 8, 2012 I could tell you that my heart was broken by what happened in Wisconsin this week, but in truth that’s not quite accurate. I...
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The Romney Cure For What Ails Us
BPR Quote of the Day “[Obama] wants to hire more government workers. He says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It’s...
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MAYBE THE REVOLUTION ISN’T OVER
To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of the death of the Occupy movement are greatly exaggerated. Chris Hedges makes the case that Occupy is lying dormant, ready to return in an as yet unknown form,...
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American Democracy May Be Dying
Authoritarian rule may be just around the corner. By Paul Krugman/ New York Times/ April 9, 2020 If you aren’t terrified both by Covid-19 and by its economic consequences, you haven’t been paying...
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