Legitimacy Crisis for New Liberalism

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There is also in an entire urban dimension of late, that the amesty has been involved in not only a struggling around a food insecurity, or food apartit. So if that adds up to a legitimacy crisis for new liberalism, i'll say, yes, i applaud that view. And yet, i don't feel a kind of overwhelming despair that some of the things i write about might seem to suggest i should feel,. because everything i write is in order for us to figure out how to organize.

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