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January 2, 2014

We know the CL is having trouble filling its op-ed pages, but this Robert Regl piece takes the cake

GOP at heart of America’s decline Republicans have mastered the techniques taught by Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s minister of propaganda: “The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly — it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.” Think about it.…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
January 2, 2014

MITCHELL – Election systems don’t reward consensus-builders

Election systems don’t reward consensus-builders Some observers say that closed primaries have led to “extremism” in Congress and elsewhere. Their logic is that only rabid loyalists tend to vote in primaries and they tend to vote for the candidate who is most rabidly loyal to the party line — liberalism or conservatism. So, it follows…