1.0 link 227288 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-clothier/obama-is-it-time-to-give_b_227288.html This is the sad--and sadly serious--question I'm asking myself today. Is it time to give up on a political system that is now so irremediably broken that it has become impervious to our needs and irrelevant to our lives? Do we just leave those we elected as our representatives to get on with their incessant partisan blather while we get on with our lives? Is it time, as Voltaire suggested at the end of "Candide," to "cultivate one's garden"? Many...

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