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Doctor_J

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13. Unfortunately our "D" reps also answer to the Kochs, and too many voters have surrendered

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 09:30 PM

Mar 2015

their principles - all of them - for "electibility" (which, given the results of the last few elections, is beyond amusing and into the idiotic range). Look at what happens at DU when one suggests that Obama's never-ending wars are as costly and useless as Bush's. Or that the Newt Gingrich/Heritage Foundation health insurance windfall is not healthcare. Despite Alterman's optimism, the fight's over - people who really want to help the country have no representation. We're at war with the Repukes and the DINO's with no way to win.

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k&r... spanone Mar 2015 #1

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K&R! n/t RKP5637 Mar 2015 #3

The MSM would be a good place to start. n/t jaysunb Mar 2015 #4

+1... freebrew Mar 2015 #48

K&R 2naSalit Mar 2015 #5

Thanks babylonsister for your continued posting of relevant issues. rhett o rick Mar 2015 #6

+1 appalachiablue Mar 2015 #8

You're very welcome! babylonsister Mar 2015 #16

+2 Enthusiast Mar 2015 #43

dems would do well to stop trying to get the conservatives to vote for them, and start trying to get KG Mar 2015 #7

+1. How can we make this happen is the issue. appalachiablue Mar 2015 #9

You can't! pocoloco Mar 2015 #10

Some truth to this at times...hopefully it will change.. appalachiablue Mar 2015 #12

Politicians usually move towards certain issues when it seems that people will vote on them and it's Chathamization Mar 2015 #18

Yep it's so. When you read all the posts with the thread now in Good Reads, *'The New American appalachiablue Mar 2015 #19

It's not all bad though. We've actually had some success here, and I've seen some in other places as Chathamization Mar 2015 #22

I don't doubt that people aware of or involved in the resource sharing economy appalachiablue Mar 2015 #30

While benficial, several major articles posted here lately that have raised the issue of imminent appalachiablue Mar 2015 #62

Thanks. I didn't find your other post rude, by the way, I thought of it as a respectful "I have a Chathamization Mar 2015 #71

Just more Hillary bashing! Nuclear Unicorn Mar 2015 #61

Touche! BumRushDaShow Mar 2015 #11

Unfortunately our "D" reps also answer to the Kochs, and too many voters have surrendered Doctor_J Mar 2015 #13

Money out of Politics. Support Wolf-Pac and the many drives to overturn Citizens United as a start. RiverLover Mar 2015 #28

+100000 Red versus Blue is no longer the most relevant way to think about things. woo me with science Mar 2015 #33

+100. Righteous. appalachiablue Mar 2015 #40

Precisely. Enthusiast Mar 2015 #44

When I see figures like Bill Clinton, Tamyron Hall (MSNBC) and MD Rep. Chris van Hollen who I appalachiablue Mar 2015 #63

"The state of conservative intellectual debate demonstrates the power of movement crazies." No, Cha Mar 2015 #14

omg Cha.... cui bono Mar 2015 #41

Conservative intellectual is something of an oxymoron. Spider Jerusalem Mar 2015 #15

Wm. F. Buckley, others, no? appalachiablue Mar 2015 #31

Nope! Spider Jerusalem Mar 2015 #35

OK, good explanation and thanks. appalachiablue Mar 2015 #37

+1 nt Zorra Mar 2015 #64

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"It�s time we woke up to that reality" zeemike Mar 2015 #20

Exactly the point guillaumeb Mar 2015 #21

Indeed the way it is. appalachiablue Mar 2015 #32

+10. 'The media decides what is covered and how', the ugly truth of it indeed. appalachiablue Mar 2015 #54

The GOP may not know how to govern but they understand semiotics guillaumeb Mar 2015 #55

Didn't know that about Rove & Grover, a gruesome twosome for sure. Yep they have the appalachiablue Mar 2015 #56

thanks for the Will Rogers reference guillaumeb Mar 2015 #57

Interestingly they are using propaganda techniques learned from Communism daredtowork Mar 2015 #23

Striving for success, competing and then reaping and keeping the rewards at any cost are common appalachiablue Mar 2015 #36

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Aren't you glad you didn't fully ignore this one? NBachers Mar 2015 #27

Poor you. She posts good stuff. nt Hekate Mar 2015 #38

one cannot ignore the truth guillaumeb Mar 2015 #51

And then proceed to post on them, even... Bobbie Jo Mar 2015 #52

This is how you deal with Kristol Mnpaul Mar 2015 #25

K & R Thespian2 Mar 2015 #26

They lost it a long time ago. RoccoR5955 Mar 2015 #29

Appreciate the honesty in sharing your intentions. I've been sensing the same trends, but am appalachiablue Mar 2015 #39

Sounds wonderful. haikugal Mar 2015 #42

Look in Europe RoccoR5955 Mar 2015 #45

Oh, OK haikugal Mar 2015 #46

I live in New York State RoccoR5955 Mar 2015 #65

Good thinking there.. haikugal Mar 2015 #67

Many left Germany, but they had resources to do so. Many stayed because they couldn't understand how YOHABLO Mar 2015 #69

I am happy that you understand this. RoccoR5955 Mar 2015 #70

K&R - tonight, Charlie Rose interviewed ex-New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier closeupready Mar 2015 #34

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The Media need a good mocking even more than their willing figureheads in all this insanity. Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #50

The 'ideology' of conservatism is exclusive. Join us or die pasto76 Mar 2015 #53

KnRnTY Babs Hekate Mar 2015 #59

Precisely ! geretogo Mar 2015 #60

Wake up and what? It is the "centrists" that don't get it and call the likes of Kristol smart TheKentuckian Mar 2015 #66

K and Effin R!!! hifiguy Mar 2015 #68

Conservatives Define the Terms of Debate because They OWN the Media AndyTiedye Mar 2015 #72