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2016 Postmortem

NurseJackie

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7. A wise man once noted "you will not get what you want."

Reply to mmonk (Original post)

Wed May 11, 2016, 11:39 AM

May 2016

"Democracy requires compromise, even when you are 100% right. This is hard to explain sometimes. You can be completely right and you still have to engage folks who disagree with you. If you think that the only way forward is to be as uncompromising as possible, you will feel good about yourself, you will enjoy a certain moral security, but you will not get what you want." - President Barack Obama

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Progressive. [View all] mmonk May 2016 OP

Yes she is. nt onehandle May 2016 #1

fantasy: something that is produced by the imagination : an idea about doing something that is Kip Humphrey May 2016 #2

Privileged: having special rights, advantages, or immunities ex. the "privileged" think they uponit7771 May 2016 #6

I don't care who you are hootinholler May 2016 #15

Correct: free from error; in accordance with fact or truth uponit7771 May 2016 #5

Incrementalism: whatchamacallit May 2016 #3

That's a good dictionary you are working with. mmonk May 2016 #21

... is not voting for the CFMA and gun corp immunity uponit7771 May 2016 #4

Sure Doctor_J May 2016 #9

Or defining what progressive is to other progressives instead of accepting the degrees of ... uponit7771 May 2016 #20

A wise man once noted "you will not get what you want." NurseJackie May 2016 #7

Was/is the TPP a compromise? Broward May 2016 #8

Hard to know, because it's a secret, but the secrecy would indicate lagomorph777 May 2016 #22

Then the Three-Fifths Compromise was sufficient. mmonk May 2016 #26

. mmonk May 2016 #10

THIS jwirr May 2016 #17

Justice. mmonk May 2016 #11

Neo-progressivism -- Progressivism for rich donors. hellofromreddit May 2016 #12

. mmonk May 2016 #13

^^^THIS^^^ jwirr May 2016 #18

I'll check back soon to look at people's replies and perspectives on the elections. mmonk May 2016 #14

That's vague, but on the money. Orsino May 2016 #16

It was basically a dictionary description I gave. mmonk May 2016 #19

More, Mmonk. Progressivism is believing we should ACT Hortensis May 2016 #23

Yes mmonk May 2016 #24

Lol. I'm a fast keyboarder, can't resist Hortensis May 2016 #25