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Shandris

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11. Some do, yes. Source: I personally know some (although they wouldn't call themselves...

Thu May 19, 2016, 04:53 PM

May 2016

...that now, they did 'back then'). For those not familiar with me, I was raised conservative. Eventually I reached the age of reason.

Their ideas are, predictably, different from many of ours, but since most of them ARE the working people and the poor, yeah, they do seem to be pretty sincere (again, referring to the ones I personally know. I don't speak for anyone I don't personally know on this topic).

But overall? Of course not. They were coopted less than 6 weeks after birth. No actual political organization cares about the poor.

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