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ohtransplant

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20. I agree that turnout is key...
Tue Dec 31, 2019, 02:41 AM
Dec 2019

and that way too many people didn't vote in 2016. If they did, we wouldn't be enduring what we are (to be polite). All the voter suppression efforts aggravate/amplify this affect. It's a huge issue and Dems need a firm plan to address it.

The thing that I find frustrating is that so may "workers" (union members, service industry workers, building trades) that have nothing in common with 45, other than a generalized anger at "others", that they end up as die-hard, unrepentant, unreasoned/unreasonable MAGA proponents. Almost very policy in the last 3 years goes against the financial, moral and ethical values of blue collar workers. Some that I know are otherwise sane, concerned citizens but they're dug in on this...

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