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Ed Suspicious

(8,879 posts) Tue May 31, 2016, 07:35 PM May 2016

Here is what I'm struggling with when it comes to voting D no matter what... [View all]

If the Rs nd D's can count on the Rs running crazy as fuck against the D's not quite so bad resulting in the D's being pulled rightward, why would the Rs ever stop running the worst candidate ever in the history of elections? Why would the Dems ever shift back left? If the Dems can count on the left's blind, unquestioning , fealty, why would they ever move the party back to the left when they are working so hard to show me they don't want to do that?

This is not as cut and dry as many of you think.

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Here is what I'm struggling with when it comes to voting D no matter what... [View all] Ed Suspicious May 2016 OP

A little too suspicious, Ed KatyMan May 2016 #1

Your comment includes Republicans running Teflon Don with Mafia connections. Jeffersons Ghost May 2016 #8

Their dwindling numbers Zippyzagnut May 2016 #2

People have been predicting the end of the Rs almost as often as the end of the world. TexasProgresive May 2016 #3

Why would the Dems ever shift back left? elleng May 2016 #4

IMO, you've got it backwards. The far left is so unreliable ecstatic May 2016 #5

Well, I've been politically active for more than 40 years Tal Vez May 2016 #6

Also if the Dems move right they will pick up some Rs that don't want Trump. Kablooie May 2016 #7