If Greenwich "brims with good and thoughtful people" as Mr. Dumas claims, then let those brimming masses prove it by adopting civic and cultural stances that would indicate goodness and thoughtfulness.
It is true that nobody expected a sudden reversal in the establishment's stance towards civic actors.
Although both parties are conservative, Civic Platform has a more liberal stance on issues such as IVF and is more pro-European than Law and Justice, which has a nationalistic streak and has demanded more sovereignty from Brussels.
Although both are conservative, the Civic Platform party has a more liberal stance on some issues.
As this quiet power struggle became more overt in the spring, Mr Morsi responded not by seeking allies in civic Egypt, but by adopting a threatening stance, appealing to his Islamist base with tougher rhetoric.This was a major miscalculation.
At issue, he said, was "who is going to lose their lives in the next campaign because these errors and mistakes went unexamined, and no one learned from them?" Human Rights Watch and Civic also noted that the alliance's stance on civilian casualties it caused in Libya was at odds with its practices for so-called collateral damage in Afghanistan.
They were denied a civic reception by the Lord Mayor Perth because of his stance on Afghanistan, but the Lord Mayor of Fremantle hosted one instead.
Ms Reding's strong stance was welcomed by a federation of 22 Roma civic organisations in Romania.
Their foreign-policy stance was ignorant, clumsy and suspicious.Amid the sighs of relief, Civic Platform's new government, probably in coalition with the moderate agrarian Polish Peasants Partyy, can expect a honeymoon at home and abroad.
"We don't believe the country will advance toward peace by pursuing businessmen, civic leaders and defenseless citizens or by preventing them from adopting an antisubversive stance," he said.
