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More from Garrison Keillor's new book, Homegrown Democrat:

[M]life depends on the social compact that the Republicans are determined to cripple by cutting taxes so as to starve government and kill off public services through insolvency and reduce us to a low-wage no-services plantation economy run by an enclave class that I do not wish to be part of. I don't want to move to a high-security building with a doorman and closed-circuit TV surveillance or a privat suburban community with a guardhouse at the entrance and regular patrols by a private security force. I want to stay here in St. Paul where anyone can walk up to my front door, Jehovah's Witnesses or Boy Scouts selling Christmas wreaths or candidates for city council or firewood salesmen or cat burglars casing the joint, and I want the freedom to walk the streets and enjoy the civility of the city, and for that, the Republicans must be fought before their success destroys the neighborhood. When the coyotes become too numerous and bold, then in defense of small children you must go and deal with the coyotes, whether you want to or not.
(via Homegrown Democrat, pp 206-7)

Seems obvious to me. When does the polemic begin, anyhow?

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