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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"As corruption becomes routine in Washington in both parties...
...it trickles down as a corrupting influence in everyone's lives. Democracy is the ultimate casualty ... As democracy ebbs, Americans retreat into private cocoons, feeling helpless to make a difference... In a democracy, civic participation and the belief in one's ability to contribute to the common good is the most important guarantor of public morality. When that belief fades, so too does the vision of the common good itself." - Charles Derber
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Baitball Blogger
(46,775 posts)or if it started locally, since all politics is, afterall, local.
Perhaps it was a combination of both and the saddest day in America began when campaign organizers at the federal level began to network with local boss hogs.
That's the day when our American dreams became a commodity for someone else to steal.
Smarmie Doofus
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(41,694 posts)EC
(12,287 posts)I must have missed it. All I saw was a guy in NJ trying to get cover to run as GOP so he's not even a Democrat really.
canoeist52
(2,282 posts)Schumer recused himself from it. You do know that that means he has no input?