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In reply to the discussion: ..Oh, WOW!.....This jaw dropping image from the Houston Galleria area protest.. [View all]staggerleem
(469 posts)25. The "right" looks for ways to segment the "left" ...
... and this is one of them. The Kochs, the Chamber Of Commerce, and ALEC actively seek social issues of "controversy" (or that they can drum up controversy over) that might cause further fragmentation of the left. I say "further" because, unlike the lock-steppers on the right, we progressives are capable of independent thought, and getting us to act together has been likened, in the past, to an attempt at "herding cats".
So, THAT's why we still have to fight the battles we'd thought were already won - because when the opposition is funded by billionaires, the war, quite literally, NEVER ends - and that applies to the domestic war for the rights of the masses as well as the overseas wars for expansion of empire.
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..Oh, WOW!.....This jaw dropping image from the Houston Galleria area protest.. [View all]
dixiegrrrrl
Dec 2014
OP
Sometimes I don't even like to let myself think about that too deeply, Paper Roses.
calimary
Dec 2014
#13
Ralph Reed boasted that the Christian Coalition was going to take over the GOP, then
alfredo
Dec 2014
#33
Yes, and in the end it will be those damned churches (I say that as a Christian) that will be the
jwirr
Dec 2014
#39
Two books by Reza Aslan, "No God but God" and "Zealot" will give good background
alfredo
Dec 2014
#34