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LiberalLovinLug

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15. Bernie and Warren are way too softball on them
Mon May 15, 2017, 12:47 PM
May 2017

And those are the two most regarded as radical in Washington. Especially by the corporate news shows.

The thing is that many different right wingers, from politicians to 'news' hosts, strike low all the time. And what is astonishing is that most of their low blows are based on outright lies. faux scandals. Whereas those on the left actually have facts on their side, and decades of history of Republican destruction to draw upon, if they decided to go that route. The route of the Rude Pundit, or even Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert minus the humor.

I think many on the left that don't bother voting think that Dems are weaklings and have no spine, and that only is solidified when they see how the GOP, and especially Trump, are fearless in their hyperbole, sometimes abusive, sexist, racist hyperbole where they even have to sometimes retract (nudge nudge wink wink) what they had said. The whole "at least he says whatever he wants and doesn't worry about offending anyone" is intoxicating.

I wish we'd have a leader that would take the risk of offending a few people on the left's fragile PC sensitivities, even losing some of them, by calling out the Republicans in much stronger language. How they are robbing and looting and have highjacked the system for decades long now, and they are on the brink of turning the USA into a version of modern Russia, an institutionalized mafia state.

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