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Still surely worth looking into both the program proposed and the individuals behind it. Doesn't it smack of political independence, with its airing of the third party question?

If such an initiative proved worthy of its name, I'd be happy to see it exported to France and Britain for a start -- countries where Benjamin Franklin was active and influential, countries in dire need of a genuine revival of democratic institutions, not the populist simulacra we've been seeing far too much of.

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PR people primarily and an offshoot of the Lincoln Project. It does not seem to be a grassroots organization, and my sense is that it is more politically affiliated than not.

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Mmmm... You seem to have a sharp sense of smell, Fern, as well as being wise to what's actually going on at ground level. So I attend to what you say. My view's inevitably more distanced, with the disadvantages that implies. Some advantages, of course, too. Mainly those of skepticism.

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