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Panich52

(5,829 posts) Sat Jul 18, 2015, 09:59 AM Jul 2015

Here's how you buy out a democracy

National Memo

This is how democracies die: not with a bang, but through the quiet election of officials who put ideology ahead of principle.

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Here's how you buy out a democracy (Original Post) Panich52 Jul 2015 OP

Don't I know it. ananda Jul 2015 #1

ananda

(28,870 posts)

1. Don't I know it.

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Sat Jul 18, 2015, 10:10 AM

Jul 2015

Obama: banks, the TPP

Scott Walker: unions, education

Texas Reeps: fracking, textbooks, abortion rights, etc

Florida Reeps: let me count the ways

Michigan: water rights, education, infrastructure, etc

Kansas: let me count the ways

Illinois: on its way to becoming the second Wisconsin

And so on

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