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lagomorph777

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5. "This...idea that independent[s]...are in the middle...[between Democrats and Republicans] is crap."

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Thu Apr 9, 2020, 03:34 PM

Apr 2020

Many, if not most independents are left of the Democrats, or to the right of the Russiapublicans...or they simply don't have any interest in a packaged set of other peoples' beliefs. Many just need help, and they don't give a crap about ideology - ideology is a first-world luxury.

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