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Our Republic is Dying

Our Republic is Dying

Under siege by antidemocratic reactionaries at all levels of government, only the people can save the American experiment. Will they?

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Max Burns
Sep 04, 2023
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I understand why so many Americans want to burn the political system to the ground. Our political system is a crock of shit. When this creaking mess functions at all, it does so in spite of its own marrow-deep contradictions. 

Our elected leaders wave the banner proclaiming us the great enlightened republic, the world’s oldest continuous democracy, the g…

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