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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI had a lefty friend tell me
That the Democrats really want this Tax Bill secretly and that they are glad they didn't have to vote for it.
Should I send them to JPR?
Sanity Claws
(21,860 posts)and tell him he is now a full-fledged member of the lunatic fringe.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Anti corporatist.
Very Democratic Socialist.
Environmentalist.
Etc.
Aristus
(66,478 posts)Because his politics are not to the left...
Orrex
(63,234 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,649 posts)TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Decades of failure have left generations ignorant.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)grads, tall, pretty, healthy girls admit neither had any idea how many senators California sent to congress. They'd been taught that in elementary school, junior high and high school. The latest, of course, is the almost insane degree of partisan dishonesty on the right. Wish we could get our investment in their schooling back.
Somehow we have to teach people respect for truth, but I now believe electric shock aversion therapy would work far, far better for some than education.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)an INVESTMENT in our young people's futures so to counter RWNJs argument that public education costs too much $...
It takes $ to make ANY investment so educating our young folks will cost $...
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)What makes them hate and break on their own kind? I dont get it.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)they will despise no matter what we do.
Joe941
(2,848 posts)can we be intellectually honest? This is a tax cut for most people (not all admittedly, but most). Saying it is not a tax cut hurts our credibility with anyone who just looks at the details of the new plan(s) and compares it with the existing tax code. Saying it doesn't make it so.