Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 4
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Why is this so hard to understand?
[Read the article: Democrats' responsibility for Bush radicalism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We hold the people who continue to perpetrate these outrages ACCOUNTABLE. Feel free to vote a straight Democratic ticket in the general election, which is preferable to not voting or voting third party in my opinion.
But there are primaries, you know. And if someone wants to challenge the incumbent on his or her lack of fealty to the Constitution, some political hay might be made.
Right now these cowards think all they have to fear is the talking heads on chat shows.
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Here's the obvious question
[Read the article: Democrats' responsibility for Bush radicalism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are you willing to subvert the Constitution in order to obtain a false sense of security?
Every legislator, Democrat or Republican, should be explicitly forced to answer that question. THAT'S a debate worth having.
As for the next election, Bush seems to have the Republican party headed for the cliff with his foot on the accelerator, and unless there's a miracle in Iraq within a year, the Democrats should have the wind at their backs.
With a decent majority (maybe new majority leadership), we might be able to change the agenda - if we don't abandon the party to the "centrists".
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We have to kill the Enlightenment in order to save it
[Read the article: The Islamists are coming]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why is it so hard for these bozos to realize that the REAL enemy is religious fundamentalism? Islamic AND Christian.
And why can't they seem to realize that the more strident their words and actions become, the more they actually strengthen their mortal enemy?
Check out Dr. (In)sanity in the Blog Report for another example.
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"Representation"
[Read the article: Why is the Democratic Congress so unpopular?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The system that we have in place to elect representatives is structurally unsound, and has been for a long time. They are simply not very "representative" of their constituents collectively. As in Viet Nam, political opinion against the war lagged far behind popular opinion. Personally, I think that sort of system cannot retain viability over the long term, but we shall see.
The major reason that this has continued is the media's complacency or outright abetting of policies that are extremely unpopular. Torture? Unprovoked aggression? I shudder to think that these (and other) policies enjoy much popular support.
But if Congress doesn't oppose them, and there's no Cronkite around to tell people the truth, it's just not working, then that leaves it up to us collectively. And because Bush and his supporters are such fanatics who think they can create their own reality, who refuse to believe athything that doesn't comport to their worldview, it's going to have to be a large and determined group to stage a successful intervention, with much damage being done in the meantime.
This is the sort of scenario Constitutional principles were meant to address. The situation we now find ourselves reflects the failures not only of our Congressional representatives, but of our citizenry as a whole.