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Overcoming authoritarianism
Our democracy is in real troubleBy Matt Rothschild
Our democracy is in real trouble.
And I’m not even talking about some of the usual things I discuss, like big and dark money in our politics, or like gerrymandering or like economic inequality.
Teddy Roosevelt said 100 years ago, “We cannot have real political democracy unless we have something approaching economic democracy.” But we’re not approaching economic democracy. We’re going in the opposite direction.
All those problems are serious, and they’re corroding the foundation of our democracy.
But there’s something new and even more imminently dangerous that I want to talk to you today about.
Read more: https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2021/07/16/overcoming-authoritarianism/
This commentary is taken from the text of Matt Rothschild’s prepared remarks delivered to the Rural Caucus of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin in Plover on July 10.