Jonathan Schell writes that the most critical question has been whether American democracy, severely eroded but still breathing, would bring down the modern and highly corrupt Republican machine, or whether the GOP machine - call it the budding one-party global empire - would bring down American democracy. Its not that the Democratic party isn’t partner to the corrosive elements of corporate corruption of our political system, but just that while they are corrupted by these influences, the modern GOP ARE those influences (the Abramoff issue being Exhibit A as evidence of this issue). Now perhaps it looks as if democracy, after years of decline, has hopefully gained the upper hand. We can only work and pray for this to be the case.

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