Articles Tagged “voter apathy”
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Democracy’s Death Dance With Capitalism
BY VERN TURNER There are two quotes, one anonymous and the other from the great economist John Maynard Keynes, that play the music for this dance between competing ideologies as our nation ratchets up its lusty search for hydrocarbons. Capitalism is the childish idea that there is no such thing as too much. – Anonymous [...]
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Where Are Today’s Responsible Democrats?
BY KENNETH WELLS We need Democrats, both progressive and moderate, to come back to the party and participate at all party levels. For too long, Democrats in solid blue states, as well as those states that were almost equally divided between progressives and conservatives, have become apathetic. We have now reached a point of near [...]
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Voters Dribble In …
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The Elephant Show
BY SHARON MARTIN We’ve chosen our candidates in state primaries, so why do we even need conventions? Seems like a waste of good money to me. Maybe it fires up the party faithful, but aren’t those votes secure already? It might be entertainment, at least, if it all weren’t just so scary. In the first [...]
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Being A Patriot
BY SHARON MARTIN In a single day, two intelligent women in separate phone conversations told me they were disgusted with politics and didn’t see what they could do to fix what ails this country. One is a conservative, the wife of a minister in Mississippi who pish-poshed my suggestion that she at least needed to [...]
