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US Democracy: Better Off, But Still Fragile
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US Democracy: Better Off, But Still Fragile

It's up to us, adopting 10 habits of good citizenship

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Jim Buie
Jun 30, 2023
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US Democracy: Better Off, But Still Fragile
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A year ago on Independence Day, I worried that Americans might abandon their birthright, democracy, “government of the people, by the people, and for the people,” in Abraham Lincoln’s famous phrase. Half the country believed that democracy wouldn’t survive in the long-term, and a substantial faction seemed to have already lost faith in it, advocating fo…

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