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System betrayed as we dodge the big issues.

Publication: National Catholic Reporter
Publication Date: 15-NOV-02
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: System betrayed as we dodge the big issues.(mid-term elections)

Article Excerpt
Elections are supposed to be about big issues: war and peace, government intervention vs. the magic of the marketplace, missile gaps and peace dividends, the makeup of the Supreme Court. Clashes of conflicting ideologies--big ideas--fought within the benign constraints of a peaceful electoral system. Not this year.

Our politics is getting smaller, and we are the losers for it.

What were the big issues this year? Not Iraq. The late Paul Wellstone was the only senatorial Democrat up for reelection this year who had the guts to vote what he, and many of them, truly believed: that a U.S.-led invasion of that land is counter to U.S. interests and the cause of peace.

Rather than articulate that principled case forcefully, Democrats scurried for the tall grass. In the...

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