Reply #5: Just great, another DU'er gains fame from FreeperLand! [View All]

[anarchy1999]

Can't we do better? I'm sorry, this hurts. Is this the best we can do? Get recognition from Free Repubs or Protest Warriors? Come on......! I want more. I want the Ukrainians, here helping us to teach democracy in action, F' football and all the rest of the distractions, we should already all be in Washington, we could have done it.

Published on Friday, July 30, 2004 by CommonDreams.org
Let's Act in the the Democratic Emergency
by Ronnie Dugger

We are in an American emergency. It is the emergency of all our American emergencies. Along with the Civil War, this is our second crisis of legitimacy, but more, it is the culminative crisis of our identity. Are we a democracy, or have we irreversibly degenerated into a Presidential-corporate-military dictatorship? Are we still a good country, or are we becoming a bad country? Can we understand and act in the emergency well and fast enough, or will we lose the United States as we know it?

But as we approach the national election three months away, we have slowly awakened to realize, too, that this quite general American emergency is focusing down into an historic democratic emergency.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0730-10.htm

We are losing our window of opportunity.