Liberty is like the air we breathe, seldom thought of until it is finally lost. Democracy is America’s greatest gift, and every citizen must understand what is at stake.
Democracy is a form of government in which citizens select their leaders through free and fair elections. In a peaceful transition, power is regularly passed from one group of elected officials to the next. It’s an honest-to-God miracle.
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With each successive column Mr. Snyder writes, he is outing himself more and more like the extreme leftist democrat that he is, not the independent that he purports himself to be.[lol]
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