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Beginnings

Last night something amazing happened. Thousands of Americans flooded into streets to publicly proclaim they want the Mueller investigation protected, and that is to say, they want corruption rooted out of federal government. This happened on the heels of the midterm election in which people voted in record numbers. I wouldn’t exactly call Democrats taking back the House of Representatives a reversal of fortune, since the Trump party controls the Senate, but Democrats now have opportunities to do damage control. People whose rights have been trampled on by the Trump party perhaps feel somewhat safer and empowered. I do. I no longer see us as a country on the same precipice as when our democratic checks and balances were not working at all. We have been living in a country at risk and it has been very frightening to a lot of people. Money is power in this country and the financial inequities are devastating in many ways. The Trump party has had and still has a lot of power; because ...

A refresher on constitutional democracy

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