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hunter

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141. I joined in February 2002.

Thu May 28, 2015, 10:40 AM

May 2015

I'd been reading from the beginning and thought maybe this place was too "mainstream Democrat" for me... I still do.

I do however strongly support Democrats because the Republican alternatives are alway worse. I'd rather not live in a "two-party" political system, especially one in which "mainstream" candidates lean so far to the right, even the Democrats, but here I am, I was born in the U.S.A. and that's my family and my community.

I haven't yet abandoned hope...

I voted for Carter in my first Presidential election. Carter lost. (I wasn't old enough to vote for Carter in the 1976 election.)

Ronald Reagan brought down showers of piss and shit on this nation and called it rain. A shocking number of U.S. Americans still believe that venal clown and his successors, even as they are drowning in the Republican "trickle."

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