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Category Archives: What Democracy in America?
Clippers, Republicans… One of a kind?
Recently, I ragged on the Republican Party. So in the spirit of equal time, I ought to give the Democrats their due. But I’m skipping the Democrats’ turn just this one time.
Besides, if you will recall, I did do a piece on the “Left Leaning Lemurs,” to which I got plenty of Democratic hazing. So in a “snake draft” approach, it is theoretically fair of me to go after the Republicans for the second time in a row, no?
So what’s the issue now? Healthcare? Welfare? Financial Reform?
Nah. I’m going in a more general direction. Much like my last piece on the Republicans, I’m more interested in the long-term interests of the Republican Party. What were they before? What are they now? What will they be?
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I Don’t See the GOP Lasting…
The G.O.P. Party will not last—at least not in its current composition.
Of course, this is not news. This is not even noteworthy. All I am really saying is that history is repeating itself.
The Republican Party has been devastated by every major cultural advancement in our nation’s history. From slavery and suffrage, to environmentalism and civil rights, the G.O.P. rarely manages to hold its stuff together when the times around them are changing.
Of course, that is not to say that Democrats haven’t changed over the years, but they certainly haven’t been as direly affected by the cultural shifts as Republicans have. Being tied to liberalism gives the Democrats some advantage in changing with the times and moving on to a much more inclusive future.
The AMT is DOA
By Uzo Ometu
The Alternative Minimum Tax has been sticking it to American taxpayers for years, but on
The House of Representatives voted on a measure that would relieve 21 million tax payers of their responsibility to the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) for the 2007 tax year. In fact, they voted for this bill emphatically, with a 352-64 outcome.
Should We Reverse Urbanization?
It is official, over half of the world has been urbanized- meaning that there are more people who live in cities than in rural areas. According to United Nations Population Fund report, by next year, more than half the world’s population will live in towns and cities. That’s over 3.3 billion people. That number is expect to balloon to almost 5 billion by the year 2030.
Such an outcome can have dramatic effects on our futures. For centuries now, the move from rural areas to suburbs and inner cities has been the social movement. However, with more people officially living in cities, is it plausible to think that this whole thing could reverse itself over the next few centuries?
