The competing systems of power in the United States are divided between oligarchy and autocracy. There are no other alternatives. Neither are pleasant. Each has peculiar and distasteful characteristics. Each pays lip service to the fictions of democracy and constitutional rights. And each exacerbates the widening social and political divide …
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There’s a lot to criticize, from soldiers patrolling state borders and policing the streets of Sydney, to people being arrested for merely posting about lockdown protests on social media, to police accessing QR-tracing information and firing projectile weapons at lockdown protesters, to news broadcasters naming and shaming Covid patients who violate isolation orders, to the frequently ineffective hotel quarantine system …
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“We must demonstrate that democracies can still deliver for our people,” Biden said Friday via video link at the the conference. The Rev. Steven Kinyk, a Baptist minister, agreed, saying, “Biden is bringing America back to world dependency instead of making America strong again.” Biden’s democracy-over-autocracy message also might be …
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Mikhail Leontyev, who for obvious reasons the language is often what Putin has in mind, said: “We are faced with the need to deprive youth of voting rights, perhaps in the near future. Because otherwise we will lose the country”. I’ve been waiting for something like that, although it is …
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