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ewagner

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9. Agree...but...

Reply to Zoonart (Reply #2)

Sun Jan 8, 2017, 11:26 AM

Jan 2017

You must ask the next question...

Is it in the political DNA of the Democratic Party to be as brutal as the Republican Party?

I recall a speech Newt Gingrich gave to the national Young Republicans during the Clinton Presidency. He told them that the failure of the "grownup" Republicans was that "...we haven't taught you to be mean enough". Gingrich, by word and example has been the absolute icon of Republican "meanness"....actually treachery and evil...but nevertheless, the entire Republican Party is based on an unethical approach to

POWER

We're all about POLICY but we have to be about both: POWER AND POLICY...and perhaps make one lead to the other.

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