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Democrats … Start Doing it for Yourselves
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) House Minority Leader Dear Congresswoman Pelosi: I recently received a mailer from you that included the following text: >> Dear Friend … why don’t you take the enclosed George W. Bush Disapproval Poll and use it … Continue reading
Posted in Statements
Tagged activism, change, correspondence, democracy, Democrats, George W Bush, liberalism, Nancy Pelosi, partisanship, politicians, politics
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Neo Politics
Neoconservatism is not a threat to the free-living, free-wheeling, bleeding heart liberal philosophy of us drug-crazed, sex-minded hippie freaks. No, despite its definition as “an approach to politics or theology that represents a return to a traditional point of view … Continue reading
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Tagged America, balance, democracy, fundamentalism, liberalism, partisanship, politics
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Can This Thing Fly?: septenary stanzas
It’s doubtful that democracy’s dense doyens can reclaim the country’s core without creating more sorrow and shame, to count coup on the status quo, entrenched in apathy, seems like the wisest way to go, at least it looks to me. … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged daily poems, democracy, liberalism, partisanship, pluralism, poetic forms, politics, septenary
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Pseudographic Xenophoria …
Perhaps this is continuing more of my mental somnambulism (see my previous entry for an exploration of thought-reducing politics), but I am perplexed with a number of things today: First, why is it that after an election, if you vote … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged activism, Democrats, liberalism, stream of consciousness
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