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stuffmatters

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4. Thank you. My take was the writer is a product of a Koch "think" tank

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Sun May 21, 2017, 10:24 AM

May 2017

The false distinctions and ignorant generalizations just reek of a Koch brand faux "education" from one of their bull shit tax free propaganda foundations that our tax dollars are forced to subsidize.

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Make Liberalism Great Again: a 6 Step Plan by TaraElla [View all] OldSchoolLiberal May 2017 OP

While I agree with much of that article, murielm99 May 2017 #1

I, too, am in some sympathy with the article, but rogerashton May 2017 #2

Nope. This is bullshit. The author has confused "liberal" with "libertarian." Squinch May 2017 #3

Thank you. My take was the writer is a product of a Koch "think" tank stuffmatters May 2017 #4

Yes, exactly. They want to tell us how to define ourselves, and their definition has nothing Squinch May 2017 #5

good points. yurbud May 2017 #6

why not an honest debate within the party about privatization, foreign policy, keynesian vs. trickle yurbud May 2017 #7

We do need better labels. In the rest of the world "liberal" means something like gov't assisted yurbud May 2017 #8

we also need an honest debate about what the private sector does best & what government does yurbud May 2017 #9

If the Democratic Party thinks they can crap on progressives and shut them up... yurbud May 2017 #10