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There is wisdom for our country's legislators in the warning that Mr Friedman issues regarding the polarization of ideologies in a legislative body that wants to establish a viable government. Friedman says, "But we have a society waiting. We have to deliver. The big challenge is to transcend the polarization of the elections. We will not be able to deliver if we polarize in Parliament". This dilemma is our own, as the GOP conservative movement,is dominated by a political fringe of "authoritarian social dominators" who bully their party into adopting policies that void the social contract of the Constitution. Charles Blow recently wrote about the "underlying social contract" that benefits the people.Our own governing body runs this country by Mubarik's methods- - "like protection rackets," where everyone was played off against, and "protected" from, each other by the leader."
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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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