A Perfect Storm [Open Thread]
By Pat Racimora on October 29, 2008 at 12:05 AM in Democracy, Democratic Nomination, Democratic Party, George Bush
George Bush was a catastrophic disaster. It will take years to undo the damage to our international reputation, domestic problems, and tightening of our Constitutional rights, even if we had a reliable and highly experienced Democratic candidate who could win.
Instead the Democratic Party left many of us, first by failing on so many lofty promises after taking over the House and Senate 2 years ago, and now by various inside and outside manipulations resulting in appointing an inexperienced candidate with a background that does not correlate with his rosy rhetoric.
Can democracy itself survive whatever happens? Because living in a democracy is all any of us have ever known, we tend to assume that a democratic society is how things will always be here instead of recognizing it for what it really is: a delicate, relatively new (historically-speaking) experiment. And, it’s being messed with!
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