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	<description>postings by Ann Davidow</description>
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		<title>Dreams are Not for the Taking</title>
		<link>http://www.findingavoice.com/2010/08/29/dreams-are-not-for-the-taking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dreams are not for the taking, especially when they are someone else’s dreams. In Rogers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific the character Bloody Mary sings “you’ve got to have a dream, if you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?” Martin Luther King’s original message stands alone as an iconic historical [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://www.findingavoice.com/2010/08/26/640/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fabrications often pass for news these days and the borderline personalities who express dangerously silly opinions on air contribute to a surreal atmosphere that inhibits sensible political discourse. Worst of all a potentially treacherous conglomerate of candidates may win in November with a lot of help from our least reliable news sources and newly empowered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Corrupting Campaign Process</title>
		<link>http://www.findingavoice.com/2010/08/23/our-corrupting-campaign-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a popular notion that rich office-seekers are free of the corrupting influences that burden candidates of lesser means. But self-funding hasn’t proven to be a guarantee of righteousness. Rather, the need to spend hugely on campaigns can grind principles to dust and corrupt the entire political process whether the funds come from lobbyists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just the Facts Please for a Change</title>
		<link>http://www.findingavoice.com/2010/08/19/just-the-facts-please-for-a-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.findingavoice.com/?p=635</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What would happen if politicians and partisan pundits dealt with facts instead of the usual propagandizing at which they are so proficient? Would voters appreciate serious examination of troubling issues absent emotional rhetoric and simplistic agendas?
What does it mean, after all to seek smaller government and less regulation and to celebrate American values which, according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Search for Reason</title>
		<link>http://www.findingavoice.com/2010/08/16/the-search-for-reason/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a deep chasm of illogic across which voters must negotiate a leap that may still land them in improbable and fantastical territory. Many theories and much statistical data suggest Social Security is insolvent now or will be soon or will remain solvent for another decade or so. Similar challenges are made about Medicare. Take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Propaganda Mill</title>
		<link>http://www.findingavoice.com/2010/08/12/the-propaganda-mill-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An increasingly disquieting feature of today’s political discourse is that bits and pieces of misinformation are regurgitated endlessly, indulging the feeding frenzy that fills the airwaves and print media. Constant polling and partisan talking points are the order of the day whether or not they contribute to rational debate.
It’s only human nature to gravitate towards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Propaganda Mill</title>
		<link>http://www.findingavoice.com/2010/08/12/the-propaganda-mill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An increasingly disquieting feature of today’s political discourse is that bits and pieces of misinformation are regurgitated endlessly, indulging the feeding frenzy that fills the airwaves and print media. Constant polling and partisan talking points are the order of the day whether or not they contribute to rational debate.
It’s only human nature to gravitate towards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religion as a Political Agenda</title>
		<link>http://www.findingavoice.com/2010/08/09/religion-as-a-political-agenda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have we always been this crazy, our political aspirants so intellectually vapid and mendacious? Perhaps, but today’s rapid-fire communications network has made it more apparent then before or so it would seem.
The Mark Twain advice that “it is better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you a fool than to open it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Confusing Political Landscape</title>
		<link>http://www.findingavoice.com/2010/08/06/the-confusing-political-landscape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 04:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Partisan gamesmanship in Congress turns every issue into a political slugfest. If a fewRepublicans acted independently more often one could admire the earnestness of their convictions. But by sticking to the party line and saying no to everything in order to thwart the president and skewer Democrats, raw partisanship becomes a blot on Congress as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Impatient, Disenchanted Electorate</title>
		<link>http://www.findingavoice.com/2010/08/02/the-impatient-disenchanted-electorate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.findingavoice.com/2010/08/02/the-impatient-disenchanted-electorate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
It’s no secret the electorate is an impatient, fickle lot. In good times when real estate is booming and the stock market is providing mouth-watering returns on investments, it tends to ignore political imperfections. But good times or bad, election-day judgments often just express satisfaction or disgust rather than carefully developed insights.
For folks who hung [...]]]></description>
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