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Buckeye_Democrat

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15. There's some truth to that, for sure. When Americans are polled on issues...
Sun Dec 11, 2016, 05:49 PM
Dec 2016

... they often lean heavily toward the liberal/Democratic platform.

It's a different story after the propagandists are finished portraying the Democratic candidate as the devil.

Those voters sometimes have a lasting departure from their previous liberal leanings after they've attached certain ideas to their new Democratic "enemy" too. For example, I can't count how many times I've read stories about global warming and the deniers in the comment sections mentioned Al Gore... as if it was all his idea or something.

It will NEVER happen here, but I still sometimes wish we had a parliamentary-style government. They put party platforms more at the forefront during elections, especially since the party members choose their own leaders (even the prime ministers).

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