Today’s Boston Globe editorial was about how the use of creative ways to hold public meetings during the pandemic expanded opportunities for the public to participate in local governance in the Bay State. The Globe editors, who want these methods to become permanent, write: “In New England’s civic mythology, public meetings are allegedly the building…
Category: democracy
I apologize to Sen. Mike Lee. He’s Right, America’s isn’t a Democracy.
I apologize to Republican Senator Mike Lee. Yesterday Sen. Lee tweeted out that America isn’t a democracy at all, and I made fun of him. I’m embarrassed because Sen. Lee is right. American is not a democracy. It’s an oligarchy. Here’s the tweet from Sen. Lee (R-Quarantine) that set off Twitter: True Sen…