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Mike 03

(16,616 posts)

5. Good insight.

Reply to genxlib (Reply #2)

Thu Nov 4, 2021, 09:19 AM

Nov 2021

This is why the often-cited fact that "we are the majority" (which I hear every day on Progressive radio) isn't as comforting today as it used to be. Wasn't only 15% (?) of Italy Fascist when Mussolini took over? It doesn't take that many people to overthrow a system of government.

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"This is not a center-left country," Manchin says to @JohnBerman on @NewDay [View all] demmiblue Nov 2021 OP

West Virginia is not a center left area lapfog_1 Nov 2021 #1

Here is the problem genxlib Nov 2021 #2

Good insight. Mike 03 Nov 2021 #5

Historically, "populist" political movements are not majorities... Wounded Bear Nov 2021 #15

good post about the reality of the ideological scales in the US Celerity Nov 2021 #6

Well stated. demmiblue Nov 2021 #8

It's not really center left either . But it depends on the issue. Even blue states vote against JI7 Nov 2021 #9

I think what you are getting at is all true genxlib Nov 2021 #10

He's scampering around like crazy in search of cover for saying "No" to Mike 03 Nov 2021 #3

Senator, who cares . .. Lovie777 Nov 2021 #4

Center/center-right countries don't want crumbling bridges and a fascist government unblock Nov 2021 #7

Why is he a Democrat? Omnipresent Nov 2021 #11

Because he can't make it through a GOP primary? haele Nov 2021 #12

And yet, a super majority of voters support most of the elements of BBB. Nt Fiendish Thingy Nov 2021 #13

Nope Deminpenn Nov 2021 #14

Looking at BBBB polls, I'd say we are left, not center-left. lagomorph777 Nov 2021 #16