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angrychair

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4. It's not really the ideals

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Thu Apr 9, 2020, 11:10 AM

Apr 2020

That is obvious. It's part messenger and part ideological purity.
Like everything, it has to have the right messenger, delivering the right message.

All the things Bernie advocated for are possible, maybe not the way he might have envisioned, but still possible.

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