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110. The excuse why the revolution didn't happen: Teh Establishment will stop at nothing to thwart it.

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I had dinner last night with a very progressive friend of mine. [View all] redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 OP

Your friend is a moron. BannonsLiver Jun 2022 #1

Yes, a Rhode Scholar and an Attorney. redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #2

Some of the dumbest people I've ever been around were great at academics BannonsLiver Jun 2022 #4

Exactly.. think Dr Ben Carson & all those Cha Jun 2022 #98

Great example Cha! BannonsLiver Jun 2022 #123

Here's another one.. Fuckhead's Lying Gaslit Press Sec Cha Jun 2022 #124

I've worked with high-dollar attorneys my entire working life... Raster Jun 2022 #9

Nope, she was raised by a single mom, she had nothing growing up. redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #13

The far left "only we know how to fix it" is just as bad as the far right "we don't want to fix it" Raster Jun 2022 #22

So she is bright but not smart. DURHAM D Jun 2022 #10

So this high powered attorney won't vote Democratic dsc Jun 2022 #51

Well one wonders how she arrived at the conclusion that having everything go to hell is the way to Demsrule86 Jun 2022 #54

I've heard that before, from progressives. shrike3 Jun 2022 #75

Because everybody else is corrupt but they totally aren't. betsuni Jun 2022 #78

And yet, still an idiot. Happy Hoosier Jun 2022 #83

Excellent Point, HH! Like Sarandon.. Cha Jun 2022 #100

Ask the Russians how well their republic worked after Putin took power. SharonAnn Jun 2022 #89

Ted Cruz went to Harvard and Thomas Massey went to MIT... SKKY Jun 2022 #99

Ted Cruz isn't an idiot though . He puts on the act to appeal to the trash base JI7 Jun 2022 #101

Rhodes. Treefrog Jun 2022 #117

Sounds privileged, privileged are OK with blowing things up cause they get to watch not be blown up uponit7771 Jun 2022 #40

Please, let me insert a 'think' in there. Hugin Jun 2022 #58

AbsoFuckingLutely. Doesn't give a Shit Cha Jun 2022 #96

Did you ask your friend how she thought student loan forgiveness and universal healthcare... Raster Jun 2022 #3

Yes I went there. redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #16

Wowwwwwwww. Just wow. :( n/t OneGrassRoot Jun 2022 #18

We already tried that with DISASTEROUS consequences. Raster Jun 2022 #23

+1 empedocles Jun 2022 #38

But, we haven't given Republicans complete power. Hortensis Jun 2022 #81

Having a 6-3 Radical Right on the SCOTUS will cost us damn near everything before the year is over Hekate Jun 2022 #94

:) Way overstated? We have enormous blessings to cherish and protect, but Hortensis Jun 2022 #109

Not overstated, imo. 28 out of 50 states have just outlawed abortion, many with no exceptions. nt Hekate Jun 2022 #119

Okay, just came back from shopping -- they're going to go after the Hortensis Jun 2022 #122

It definitely is a very stupid argument awesomerwb1 Jun 2022 #30

Then why aren't we even attempting election reform? TheFarseer Jun 2022 #62

If you wanted the evening to end wryter2000 Jun 2022 #43

Okay . . . gratuitous Jun 2022 #47

Literally sounds like the Jimmy Dore gospel ... Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2022 #57

That was Susan Sarandon's view: Trump et al will trigger "the revolution". JustABozoOnThisBus Jun 2022 #82

I Know People RobinA Jun 2022 #84

Classic "only I'm smart enough to see through the lies" bullshit. mathematic Jun 2022 #121

I'm sorry. it's mind boggling that they continue to blow us up and refuse to see it. onecaliberal Jun 2022 #5

Yes, you are right. redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #8

They are just like the right when they're more interested in blowing up the place than actually onecaliberal Jun 2022 #12

Tell her that if she doesn't vote for the Dem candidate for POTUS, LuckyCharms Jun 2022 #6

The only "real change" your friend and those like her will create is more victories for highplainsdem Jun 2022 #7

That is what terrifies me. redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #11

Yup. Straw Man Jun 2022 #14

If they "blow it all up" Timewas Jun 2022 #26

They don't inthewind21 Jun 2022 #36

Time to stop allowing the term "progressive" to be expropriated Just A Box Of Rain Jun 2022 #15

If you met her and asked her what party she was affiliated with she would answer "progressive". redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #25

It is sad to lose people to extremist mindsets. Just A Box Of Rain Jun 2022 #37

I miss the "old Ann", the one who protested the war with me. redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #41

I truly understand where you are coming from. Just A Box Of Rain Jun 2022 #49

Thanks... redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #66

Unfortunately "blown up " equals Fascism crazylikafox Jun 2022 #17

And once we hit full "blown up" Fascism, it is almost impossible to return. Raster Jun 2022 #27

That's exactly why we have the Supreme court we have awesomerwb1 Jun 2022 #19

I'm sorry that your friend is braindead Hav Jun 2022 #20

Believing that "the system needs to be completely blown up" is a fundamentally romantic notion... Jade Fox Jun 2022 #21

Putin's propaganda pushers have focused on left heavily blm Jun 2022 #24

Your friend is a member of the Susan Sarandon squad of progressives peggysue2 Jun 2022 #28

Bannon's "populist uprising" of "Hispanics, African-Americans and working class people" betsuni Jun 2022 #104

If one goes far enough left, one begins to sound amazingly like a right winger. mn9driver Jun 2022 #29

I think I'm done. The last couple of times we have been together it as gotten heated. redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #31

Such people make me sputter. nt LAS14 Jun 2022 #32

completely blown up... 2naSalit Jun 2022 #33

If serious seleff Jun 2022 #34

Sorry you're dealing with this. She sounds like the Left's version of ... Whiskeytide Jun 2022 #35

I sometimes wonder BlueSky3 Jun 2022 #39

One person does not make that statement true. SharonClark Jun 2022 #88

Please re-read what I wrote BlueSky3 Jun 2022 #120

This is one of the reasons Biden's approval nevergiveup Jun 2022 #42

They either vote for Biden or we lose everything. And I sincerely hope every last one of them Demsrule86 Jun 2022 #55

We see a similar stance from many around here on Joe Manchin Zeitghost Jun 2022 #44

In some ways those of us who are centrist don't feel as welcome in the party as we used to. redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #45

That's two years away. H2O Man Jun 2022 #46

Uh oh, you're a moderate/centrist supporting the milquetoast status quo establishment corporatists! betsuni Jun 2022 #48

I haven't been hip and cool since 1973. redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #67

At least you were! betsuni Jun 2022 #103

Wasn't the system completely "blown up" under the reign of King Donald?????? Tell your friend unless Vinca Jun 2022 #50

I say fuck your friend. She can call herself what she wants...I call her a Republican who also Demsrule86 Jun 2022 #52

She is not not and not a progressive and calling her that besmirches the rest of us. Demsrule86 Jun 2022 #53

I see her point TheFarseer Jun 2022 #56

We are screwed zipplewrath Jun 2022 #63

All of that is correct TheFarseer Jun 2022 #68

Minority contol zipplewrath Jun 2022 #69

it's called accelerationist. it's a thing. wisdom from beau of the 5th column- mopinko Jun 2022 #59

"Riots are the voice of the unheard" Sympthsical Jun 2022 #60

"Burn it down" is what gave us Trump. intheflow Jun 2022 #61

Cool story, bro. RandiFan1290 Jun 2022 #64

Yeah, I'm wondering Sympthsical Jun 2022 #90

Actually I've been hearing the same thing. ecstatic Jun 2022 #91

Indeed. nt BlackSkimmer Jun 2022 #111

I just got off the phone with her. redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #65

The myth that the majority of Americans are secretly progressive populists, there will betsuni Jun 2022 #76

I'm really sorry. She sounds something, though, like the LW authoritarians Hortensis Jun 2022 #79

I fear that our left has been defeated but a Russian Political Technology Aroundabout23 Jun 2022 #70

A line in "Inherit The Wind..." Grins Jun 2022 #71

Where the far left and far right meet. sarcasmo Jun 2022 #72

Ask her how that worked out in the 2000 election. LudwigPastorius Jun 2022 #73

I hear exactly the same thing from my nephew who just graduated from walkingman Jun 2022 #74

She isn't a progressive. She is the usual fucking idiot JI7 Jun 2022 #77

That whole blow it up thing is something this hardcore, never been anything else, big L Solly Mack Jun 2022 #80

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So she wants what would had happened if TFI had been reelected? LiberalFighter Jun 2022 #86

Your friend sounds like Susan Sarandon LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2022 #87

"it was her opinion that the system needed to be completely blown up" brooklynite Jun 2022 #92

I lost a friend in 2016 over not voting for Hillary. Lunch, not dinner, tho. It's awful. Hekate Jun 2022 #93

You can be progressive, love Bernie and AOC, and still think Biden is doing well mvd Jun 2022 #95

What happened after "blowing it up" in 2016 wasn't enough for her? DFW Jun 2022 #97

Hillary tried to warn us LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2022 #108

It DID terrify me. DFW Jun 2022 #113

The excuse why the revolution didn't happen: Teh Establishment will stop at nothing to thwart it. betsuni Jun 2022 #110

The Cliches are more prevalent than the truths DFW Jun 2022 #112

+1 (And others: I don't know how any of those people sleep at night) betsuni Jun 2022 #114

They said the same thing in 2016 and what did that get us? Trump Samrob Jun 2022 #102

my answer is too far down so you probably won't even see/read this orleans Jun 2022 #105

Blow everything up and let fascists take over? Germany did that once... CarlYasutomo Jun 2022 #106

Cool story! n/t Mysterian Jun 2022 #107

As a Lawyer, she should understand how incrementelism or precedent works to change laws haele Jun 2022 #115

Hillary warned us LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2022 #116

I'm caught between relatives who feel like your friend and relatives who are Trumpsters. yardwork Jun 2022 #118