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Progressives' Suggestions to "Save Democracy" Are Hilariously Terrible
While the solutions outlined in the article are laughably bad, they do offer some interesting insights into progressive thinking.

Responding to the anniversary of Donald Trump’s election, The Washington Post Magazine presented “38 ideas for repairing our badly broken civic life.” Post Magazine editor Richard Just explained that “all of us … should be able to agree that some future-pondering about the state of our democracy is in order.”

Many — if not most — of the Post’s recommendations from experts, artists, and writers are insipid or authoritarian. But they provide an excellent snapshot of progressive thinking after nearly one year of Trump era tumult.
 
*Author Kristin Henderson proposes conscripting all young people for three years in military or government civilian work such as AmeriCorps. Forcing adults to “spend time in compulsory service to our country” would be the same as going back to “kindergarten and relearn how to cooperate and share our toys.” But the Founding Fathers never intended to treat personal freedom as a political toy.
 
*The best fix for American democracy is to “outlaw private education” to banish inequity, according to novelist Ann Patchett. In the name of equality, parents must be prohibited any choice or effective role in their children’s schooling. Patchett also rhapsodized about confiscating Ivy League endowments to redistribute to state schools. Artist George Lois supplemented Patchett’s point with a poster proclaiming “There’s an OUCH in every Voucher.” But the pain is suffered by teacher unions, not by parents desperate to find escapes from educational hellholes.
 
*According to basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, “The solution is to teach mandatory critical thinking in every year of public school from first through 12th grade.” He predicts that “Breitbart, Fox News and Donald Trump would melt under the scrutiny of logic.” But is it rational to expect schools that dismally fail to teach reading will miraculously transform kids into great thinkers?

Like some of the great thinkers in here. Lol
 
*American University professor Ibram X. Kendi called for an “Anti‑Bigotry Amendment that would constitutionalize a critical principle: Group inequity is evidence of discrimination. The amendment would make group inequity illegal and ban the incitement of bigotry… Claims that inequity is evidence of a group’s dysfunction or inferiority would be outlawed.” Kendi’s fix, which parallels “antifa’s” (antifacist) demands, would torpedo the First Amendment by criminalizing practically any criticism of racial and ethnic groups.
 
*Harvard professor Dani Rodrik proposes to boost democracy by vastly expanding government economic intervention, empowering government to become “co‑owner of the new generation of technologies and machines” to create the “innovation state.” However, the crony capitalism debacles of recent years (such as the Obama administration’s Solyndra scandal) should have stifled any such suggestion.
 
Bruddah IZ said:
*The best fix for American democracy is to “outlaw private education” to banish inequity, according to novelist Ann Patchett. In the name of equality, parents must be prohibited any choice or effective role in their children’s schooling. Patchett also rhapsodized about confiscating Ivy League endowments to redistribute to state schools. Artist George Lois supplemented Patchett’s point with a poster proclaiming “There’s an OUCH in every Voucher.” But the pain is suffered by teacher unions, not by parents desperate to find escapes from educational hellholes.
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Right down the old log hole.
 
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