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djean111

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35. I am just saying that every time I brought up something I did not like about HRC (or Obama) I was

Reply to KittyWampus (Reply #33)

Thu May 7, 2015, 09:06 AM

May 2015

called a purist. Liberals and Progressives are called "purists" quite a bit, here at DU. Mostly because they do not embrace everything a particular politician does; more personality-driven, seems to me.
So I am not newly embracing pragmatism, I am saying that my idea of what I can be pragmatic about is, obviously, quite different than someone else's idea.

IMO, those who are pragmatic about everything - stand for nothing.

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