1.0 link 27649 <![CDATA[The Beltway's Fear and Loathing of Democracy]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/the-beltways-fear-and-loa_b_27649.html You can tell how much Washington, D.C. is panicking by the rise of grassroots politics by looking at the now weekly declarations by politicians and pundits that they actually hate democracy. That's hyperbole, you say? Just take a look at a few comments that have come from the upper echelons of the political/media establishment - comments that finally admit to us how those who purport to legislate and report in our name really in their gut despise American democracy.

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