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MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
36. One can be capitalist and liberal.
Thu Sep 18, 2014, 04:36 PM
Sep 2014

In fact, being left and anti-capitalist is extreme.

I like my capitalism well regulated, just like Elizabeth Warren. Of course, the extreme left recently threw her and Bernie Sanders under the bus due to their support of doing the right thing about ISIL.

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It's not really comparable JI7 Sep 2014 #1
Quite the amount of supporting evidence you've supplied to prop up your premise... LanternWaste Sep 2014 #3
The biggest difference is obviously Blue_Tires Sep 2014 #18
Editorials and evidence are two wholly separate things. LanternWaste Sep 2014 #21
The Scots independents were led by an ambitious iconoclast pscot Sep 2014 #46
There’s not much similarity between the two movements. Chathamization Sep 2014 #37
For example, the SNP is a long-standing political party which has been working for this for decades muriel_volestrangler Sep 2014 #41
I forgot about shortbread KamaAina Sep 2014 #2
One correction, there are NO DU conservatives. MohRokTah Sep 2014 #4
Except for posters who often write, "in most things, I'm pretty conservative about..." LanternWaste Sep 2014 #5
I've never seen such a DUer. eom MohRokTah Sep 2014 #11
No doubt it's difficult to see that which one pretends doesn't exist LanternWaste Sep 2014 #24
Gotta link? MohRokTah Sep 2014 #27
My litmus test: If you believe that Dennis Kucinich is a member Zorra Sep 2014 #6
EVERYBODY believes Dennis Kucinich is extreme left MohRokTah Sep 2014 #9
I rest my case. nt Zorra Sep 2014 #38
You made my case for me. eom MohRokTah Sep 2014 #39
. Rex Sep 2014 #7
I know, it's silly claiming there are conservative DUers. eom MohRokTah Sep 2014 #12
And even sillier pretending there's not... LanternWaste Sep 2014 #22
MIRT catches the pretenders. MohRokTah Sep 2014 #29
DUzy! hootinholler Sep 2014 #10
I'm serious. eom MohRokTah Sep 2014 #13
Double DUzy BrotherIvan Sep 2014 #16
I worked so hard on those Jeff Rosenzweig Sep 2014 #45
Says the person who calls for indiscriminate bombing in Iraq, and damn the civilians. Marr Sep 2014 #17
I've never watched a person pull the wool over their own eyes... until today LanternWaste Sep 2014 #23
Says the guy with the Hillary Clinton badge of honor. SolutionisSolidarity Sep 2014 #20
Hillary Clinton is a liberal MohRokTah Sep 2014 #25
neo leftstreet Sep 2014 #28
Liberal MohRokTah Sep 2014 #30
exactly n/t leftstreet Sep 2014 #31
Only conservatives go around calling everyone to their left the "extreme-left". SolutionisSolidarity Sep 2014 #33
I'm a liberal. Calling me conservative is a disgusting insult. MohRokTah Sep 2014 #35
Third Way is the new Conservative n/t leftstreet Sep 2014 #26
Bullshit. eom MohRokTah Sep 2014 #32
Whaa...? Third Wayers LOVE the Bull leftstreet Sep 2014 #34
One can be capitalist and liberal. MohRokTah Sep 2014 #36
Thanks for the link, Zorra. hifiguy Sep 2014 #8
Be interesting to see how they do financially snooper2 Sep 2014 #14
Slainte Mor! hootinholler Sep 2014 #15
This is starting to sound everything leading to either Benghazi on the right or Occupy on the left. randome Sep 2014 #19
I knew the word "Occupy" would bring you here. You're late. nt Zorra Sep 2014 #40
One of my favorite subjects because I can't understand why some think Occupy is Our Savior. randome Sep 2014 #43
Understanding Occupy takes conceptual thinking ~ the ability to use the cognitive processes of Zorra Sep 2014 #44
K&R woo me with science Sep 2014 #42
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