A bad day for democracy, here and there
Up here, one guy said the rules of democracy don’t need to be changed, anymore, because a political adversary has been beaten. Down there, another guy said democracy’s rules should only be followed when he is the winner.
TORONTO—Like a flower—wonderful, beautiful, perfect.
That’s what a lineup to vote is, too: wonderful, beautiful, perfect. It is democracy, in its very essence: your neighbours, queued up with you at the elementary school down the street, shivering in the cold, stamping their feet, waiting qui...
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