Is America communitarian?
By Niki Raapana
“Why should the Tea-publicans, these Tea Party baggers deform what is real about this country, which is communitarianism, which is about a responsive, strong government?” {emphasis added} VANDEN HEUVEL, http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/week-transcript-president-bill-clinton-president-george-bush/story?id=9584720&page=4
““You need to take back this tea party idea,” he told the wildly cheering crowds in Boston and later in Worcester. “They say that the original Boston Tea Party was anti-government, but that is wrong. The Massachusetts Bay Colony had a strong government. They weren’t liberal or conservative, they were communitarians, which means they knew we’re all in this together. What they opposed was the abuse of power.” But the aim of the Republican Party and Senate nominee Brown, he charged, is to “protect the modern abusers of power” – namely, the corporate and financial leaders whose depredations can only be curtailed by strong, responsive government.” {emphasis added} Bill Clinton in Massachusetts campaigning for Coakley. http://mobile.salon.com/opinion/conason/2010/01/15/clinton_coakley/index.html
Relating back to my earlier post, I’m trying to download Religious Justification in the American Communitarian Republic, Robert Justin Lipkin, Widener University School of Law http://works.bepress.com/robert_lipkin/16/
And here’s an article I just found that includes information about the ACL in the Canada Free Press, The worldwide debut of the Communitarians, by Judi McLeod, Friday, January 15, 2010. Thanks Judi! http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/18994
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