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  • The Technocracy Boom

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    New York Times (David Brooks): The Technocracy Boom When historians look back on the period between 2001 and 2011, they will be amazed that a nation that professed to hate bureaucracy produced so much of it. During the first part of this period, the Republicans were in control. They expanded a vast national security bureaucracy.…

  • Do Democrats Need To Learn Some Respect?

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    Economist's View (Mark Thoma): Do Democrats Need To Learn Some Respect? If you are a Democrat, let me ask you a question. Do you truly, in your heart of hearts, respect the beliefs of a religious fundamentalist, someone who has a strong relationship with their church, opposes abortion, has doubts about evolution, and so on?…

  • Democrats Are Heroes… and Villains

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    From TCS Daily: Democrats Are Heroes… and Villains The Democrats are being lauded in Europe and much of the Americas as the heroes of the hour, rescuing the USA from those mad neocons. But in most of Asia the perception is quite different — of the Democrat majority as a threat, an enemy of trade,…

  • Fanfare for the common man

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    From the Economist: Fanfare for the common man Is economic populism on the rise in the Democratic Party? AS THE embers of this month's mid-term elections are raked over, a new conventional wisdom is emerging in Washington, DC. The outcome was not just about Iraq, corruption and voters' frustration with George Bush. It also marked…

  • Democrats, Liberals, and Religion

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    From Washington Monthly: Democrats, Liberals, and Religion So let's get real: It's true that Democratic politicians are uniformly respectful toward religion, but it's equally true that the Democratic Party responds to liberal concerns, and that means it's more sympathetic than the Republican Party is to a whole raft of positions that even some moderate believers…

  • How Democrats Fail the “Aw Shucks” Test

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    We are getting within a month of the elections in November, and as I reflect on the contests, my mind goes to a book published last year called What's the Matter with Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank. It is one progressive's attempt to understand those goofy people whose state…

  • Democrats seen as failing in outreach

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    From Christian Century: Democrats seen as failing in outreach After varied efforts by Democratic leaders to convince mainstream churchgoers that they share common moral values, a Baptist ethicist has suggested that the Democrats focus instead on core biblical issues of compassion and begin long-term contacts with centrist clergy at local levels. "The Democratic Party simply…

  • False piety is wrong cure for Dems

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    False piety is wrong cure for Dems is an editorial by Jesse Jackson in the Chicago Sun-Times. While I often disagree with Jackson (including various assertions in this editorial), I do think he got one thing right. But faith is not a political posture. True faith isn't exhibited by symbolic acts, but by substance. Faith…