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lumberjack_jeff

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1. Because republicans believe that government can't do anything good.

Reply to TomCADem (Original post)

Mon Dec 2, 2013, 11:51 PM

Dec 2013

Democrats believe that government can and should do good.

Everything else flows from that basic world view. Republicans will always run government in a malfeasant, malpracticing way to validate their philosophy.

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