Assessing the Parties and Candidates

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A government of “National Unity”?  No PPP?

 

Hello.  Even as I attempt these semi-moralistic, advisory pieces, I bear in mind today’s changed values, norms and mores, from my young adult-hood.  And yes, elections of the past.

Heroes, role-models and representatives are rather different form my younger days.  This generation seems to go for flair, shadow rather than substance, the smart-alec, the glib-talker, …..




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