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In reply to the discussion: "Why won’t Obama voters `break up’ with him?" by Greg Sargent at WP [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)40. Yep. Some of those who scream loudest about "Freedom" are actually absolutists and/or ideologues.
I think the key solution is much more directly active and involved voting populace. Many, many, many more people who write letters and make phone calls and are unafraid of talking openly with anyone and everyone about everything. That alone will correct at least some of the information deficit and ameliorate at least some electoral and campaign finance corruption, though I hope that someday we'll achieve enough of a critical mass of that sort of citizenship to demand both authentic electoral and campaign finance reform.
This is one of the reasons I stay committed here at DU and on FaceBook to some extent, though I do get tired.
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"Why won’t Obama voters `break up’ with him?" by Greg Sargent at WP [View all]
applegrove
Sep 2012
OP
I wonder how many people actually speculate in any detail about exactly how things get done.
patrice
Sep 2012
#3
Thank you for teaching civics. Presidents have limited powers and the House controls the purse.
JRLeft
Sep 2012
#5
This puts everyone in a difficult situation when we try to do as we really should and talk to
patrice
Sep 2012
#8
Yep. Some of those who scream loudest about "Freedom" are actually absolutists and/or ideologues.
patrice
Sep 2012
#40
Fits to the juvenile middle school or elementary school level of the right. Immature bullies.
freshwest
Sep 2012
#29
Who in their right mind leaves an intelligent caring man for a robotic unfeeling jerk?
Jennicut
Sep 2012
#13
Those "conversions" are fake, IMHO. I talk to Dems daily, and never once have I heard one.....
Tarheel_Dem
Sep 2012
#18
Thing is, you're always going to find 'conversions' every election cycle...
Drunken Irishman
Sep 2012
#20
The national debt never makes it into any conversations I have with people
Proud Liberal Dem
Sep 2012
#25
I'm sure it may come up in some circles, but I've never heard anyone in my family, or....
Tarheel_Dem
Sep 2012
#33
It is very simple. The republicans have said they want to dismantle social security and medicare.
still_one
Sep 2012
#32
Because people don't have those sort of relationships with their politicians?
Proud Liberal Dem
Sep 2012
#36