The conservative grip on power

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3. I agree with everything she says about the repubs,

but she lets the dems off too easy.

True, the Democrats have not been models of political virtue. Cowardly when confronted by their powerful adversaries, confused about the moral grounding of their political vision, faithless to their allies, racketing from one trendy policy initiative to another, without anything resembling long-term planning — with enemies like the Democrats, who needs friends? But blaming the victim is way too easy. Democrats made the mistake of behaving as if the American rules of representative government still applied. Confronted with the lawless conservative Republicans, their fate was sealed.

The dems are not the victim, the People are. Being cowardly, confused & faithless makes the dems complicit, not victims.

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