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In reply to the discussion: All three branches of our Government are now corrupted [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,624 posts)59. Because running Republican lites against real Republicans has worked out so well
Read the OP again. And I'd add to that as well, most Governorships, and local boards across the country have been lost. (who then perpetrate more gerrymandering).
The chicken littles in the party have to grow a pair. Sanders proved that all we have to do is actually tell people they have a better choice and they respond. There's a reason why his numbers were better than both Hillary and Trump. People have liberal positions when you actually pin them down. Most want single payer, most want a higher minimum wage, most want equal pay, most think Wall Street and the 1% are catered to more than they should be, and on and on. But Democrats still want to say one thing in New York, and the opposite thing in Kansas.
Yes lets just do the same thing over and over because that's going so well. So instead of enlightening folks that they have options..options that every other western democracy enjoys, we should just continue to run our Republican lites whose message is "My fellow Democrats ideas are undoable and just won't work in this State, vote for me and I'll vote along with Republicans because at least they have a clear vision (dismantle and defund government)"
Yes lets just do the same thing over and over because that's been going so well.
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That 40% that didn't bother to vote because, you know both party's are exactly the same...
workinclasszero
Apr 2017
#13
That would def. require a meeting of the minds with the freepers and militia-types ...
mr_lebowski
Apr 2017
#61
No words. Just no words. Hug your children, and be thinking what to say when
FailureToCommunicate
Apr 2017
#24
I wonder how long it will take for the rest of the world to ally against us and Russia?
workinclasszero
Apr 2017
#77
That's the enraging truth. Their net effect is to fluff up the pillows of the 1%...
VOX
Apr 2017
#84
They've remade the government in their own image. A corrupt, insular, anti-democratic, autocracy.
Kablooie
Apr 2017
#39
CIA Mind Control my friend ... sounds cliche, but this is 'professional work' done by Masters
mr_lebowski
Apr 2017
#63
Because running Republican lites against real Republicans has worked out so well
LiberalLovinLug
Apr 2017
#59