Uncurdling my soul

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 6:48 AM PST

2008/11/05 · 06:48

I was born at the tail end of 1970. I started following politics when I was 13, in 1984. Right from the start, as I watched the news, I knew in my heart that I did not like what I saw in Ronald Reagan or other Republicans. I can't put my finger on exact things all these years later, but I quickly saw that Democrats were about enabling all Americans, not by coddling them, but by protecting them and helping all by accomplishing what no one person, or even one corporation or industry, could do alone. The Republicans, on the other hand, seemed to back greed as the highest good; that somehow wanting and taking as much as you could would make you a good person, and then you would somehow share the goodness with those around you. It seemed like a dubious premise at best, and an outright misanthropic one at worst.

Growing up in Minnesota, I cheered Walter Mondale on. We all know how that went.

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Friday June 16, 2006 · 10:16 AM PDT

2006/06/16 · 10:16

Wisconsin, my adopted state for the past 12 years, abolished the death penalty in 1853. Not 1953, 1853. (As far as states go, only Michigan abolished it earlier, in 1846, the first English-speaking government in the world to do so!) Now, certain state legislators want to put a non-binding referendum on the fall ballot, asking voters if they favor capital punishment for murders where there is a DNA match.

Can you guess which side of the aisle the folks putting this forth sit on? Read More

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Uncurdling my soul

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