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JoePhilly

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9. If you expect perfect legislation, you aren't going to get it.

Reply to djean111 (Reply #8)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 09:50 AM

Mar 2015

Any good thing the Dems do, will also end up including something we don't like.

Given the current make up of the country, the only way this gets better is if Dem vote in huge numbers.

When Dems stay home, or bemoan each and every step forward because it isn't 2 steps forward, it doesn't help.

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So Here's A Weird Idea... 2016/2018... No Matter Who The 2016 Candidate Is... [View all] WillyT Mar 2015 OP

There is a psychological concept that I think is useful to think about Jackpine Radical Mar 2015 #1

Yet That's Always Been True... Sometimes More For Others... WillyT Mar 2015 #2

I think the apathy of the swing voters in 2010 Jackpine Radical Mar 2015 #4

You just explained the GOP plan to make government not work. JoePhilly Mar 2015 #3

Well, yeah, but the Dems haven't done much to counter it. At least not Jackpine Radical Mar 2015 #6

Try to follow me here ... JoePhilly Mar 2015 #7

This - "Or, they can try to govern imperfectly, which pisses off the dem base." Not to mention that djean111 Mar 2015 #8

If you expect perfect legislation, you aren't going to get it. JoePhilly Mar 2015 #9

I have not expected perfect legislation. That's a common straw man put-down. Not buying it. djean111 Mar 2015 #10

And That's Why I Suggest Using The Momentum Of The Presidential Election, To Convince Voters... WillyT Mar 2015 #11

I think this is the Pew poll cited? Cosmic Kitten Mar 2015 #5