Commentary: Don't worry, all is not lost. State and local activists are fixing our elections
by Joshua A. Douglas, Los Angeles Times
Oct 12, 2018
3 minutes
Despair appears to be the common mood of the day. Everything is terrible. U.S. democratic norms have devolved so much that it seems impossible to know how to recover. Our political outcomes don't consistently reflect our true aspirations. Yes, the whole system feels rigged - against the majority of Americans.
Why not just throw up our hands?
The answer is that this moment also presents a powerful opportunity to create a better, more robust democracy. That starts, of course,
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