How to Turn Republicans and Democrats Into Americans
If we are truly a democracy—if voters get to size up candidates for a public office and choose the one they want—why don’t the elections seem to change anything? Because we elect our leaders, and they then govern, in a system that makes cooperation almost impossible and incivility nearly inevitable, a system in which the campaign season never ends and the struggle for party advantage trumps all other considerations.
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Imagine a beer cooler with more than Miller Lite and Budweiser … oh wait, we have those now.
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