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NOVANEWS By Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen, AlterNet Book Excerpt People hold banners during a protest in response to violence erupting at the white supremacist rally those organized by racist and nationalist groups in Charlottesville, at Federal Plaza Square in New York City on August 14, 2017. (Photo: Selcuk Acar / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images) As we enter 2018, one thing is clear: just as we need it most, Americans' commitment to democracy seems to be fading. Frightened by President Trump's lies about the prevalence of voter fraud, a majority of Republicans say they're open to the idea of postponing the 2020 election. Even more disturbing, one in six of us now say we'd settle for military rule. It's time American patriots face a hard but liberating truth: Democracy -- gov...

NOVANEWS By Finian CUNNINGHAM The dark, infamous days of American lynch-mob rule and burning witches at stakes are back as never before. But not in backwater enclaves of benighted bigotry. Oh no, the modern lynch mobs are running amok in Washington’s seat of government, across prime TV and on the editorial pages of its supposed finest newspapers. It is the effete, self-regarding ruling US elite who are acting like a murderous rabble. The hate-figures are Russian leader Vladimir Putin and incoming president Donald Trump. Both are being lined up to be lynched, one as a foreign enemy, the other as a traitor. Lynch mob blood-lust is a mere finger pointed, the baying of deranged crowds and the stringing up of some unfortunate from the nearest tree without pause for a fair trial. «Guilty!» ...

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Democracy Is Not a Choice

America’s Lynch Mob ‘Democracy’