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kliljedahl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 04:11 PM Original message |
Have Americans lost the guts for democracy? |
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Time for change (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
1. Exactly -- Most Americans cannot bring themselves to believe it |
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billbuckhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 04:47 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Good government requires a lot of work and we're too busy |
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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 05:03 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. You said it! The role of "consumer" has eclipsed the role of "citizen" |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 04:56 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Thank you for this link! |
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Time for change (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 07:01 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. My main thought in writing that post |
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kliljedahl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 08:43 PM Response to Reply #8 |
20. You're exactly right |
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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 07:23 PM Response to Reply #1 |
12. Too many Americans these days are ill informed, |
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roseBudd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 09:21 PM Response to Reply #12 |
21. They are ill informed and I am reporting for duty to help educate... |
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kliljedahl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 09:33 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. That's great, one more for my arsenal |
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roseBudd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 09:48 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Actually I think it is illegal to stick anthing in the mailbox that didn't |
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kliljedahl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 10:01 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. They don't go in, they get put on the side |
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roseBudd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 10:11 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. you mean rural mailboxes? |
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kliljedahl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-05-06 05:15 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. No., I mean at the Post Offices |
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kliljedahl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-07-06 04:38 PM Response to Reply #27 |
35. Kick |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-05-06 12:13 PM Response to Reply #21 |
32. Very nice! |
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petgoat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 07:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
13. Bush has appointed himself King |
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cspanlovr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 07:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. as a people, we're so broken, so tamed , |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 04:45 PM Response to Original message |
2. from another recent article . . . |
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meganmonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 04:58 PM Response to Original message |
5. “If somebody from al-Qa’ida is calling you, we’d like to know why" |
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fooj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 07:18 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. We'd like to know why you flew the House of Saud out of the country... |
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Cults4Bush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 10:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
26. true that! sing it loud sister! |
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Burning Water (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 05:00 PM Response to Original message |
6. Off topic, but |
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kliljedahl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 07:08 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. If it's offset, it's always indirect |
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Burning Water (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 07:35 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. Thanks, I will visit |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 07:14 PM Response to Original message |
10. My faith in my own people's ability to discern is seriously shaken. |
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kliljedahl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 07:38 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. I lost that faith years ago, but then I'm a pessimist |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-05-06 06:28 PM Response to Reply #15 |
33. I was a pessimist years ago, but events have overtaken me. |
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sweetm2475 (523 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 07:45 PM Response to Original message |
17. Sometimes it seems like it. |
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kliljedahl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 08:04 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Gotta keep the hopes up |
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meganmonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-05-06 09:28 AM Response to Reply #18 |
31. You're not alone Keith! |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-04-06 08:29 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. I don't want us to get through this |
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foreverdem (759 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-05-06 08:01 AM Response to Original message |
28. Randi Rhodes touched on this subject yesterday |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-05-06 08:04 AM Response to Original message |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-05-06 08:14 AM Response to Original message |
30. reagan and the ''republican revolution'' killed it. |
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wrate (376 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-05-06 07:45 PM Response to Original message |
34. Have you people thought of organizing in ways that may not seem |
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