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laundry_queen

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10. No, the reason the left keeps failing

Reply to Recursion (Reply #6)

Mon May 6, 2013, 09:37 AM

May 2013

is the right keeps on pushing for what they want, and the left becomes 'realistic' and compromises. In countries where the left pushes back hard, the left wins. You need to get out of the US more.

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Hundreds of Thousands Across France Tell Hollande: "Return to the Left" [View all] marmar May 2013 OP

that's an idea we could use Skittles May 2013 #1

We need the hundreds of thousands - or - LeftInTX May 2013 #2

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Yes!!!!!!!!!! LeftInTX May 2013 #4

k&r for exposure. n/t Laelth May 2013 #5

Nothing realistic is ever good enough. Ever. Recursion May 2013 #6

No the right takes what they can get and then PUSHES for more...... socialist_n_TN May 2013 #7

I'm sure many of the remember the French Communist party under Georges Marchais reluctantly byeya May 2013 #9

No, the reason the left keeps failing laundry_queen May 2013 #10

I agree Recursion Puzzledtraveller May 2013 #11

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