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Bernie Sanders

LWolf

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1. McCarthyism is a good way to describe it.

Reply to Flying Squirrel (Original post)

Tue Aug 8, 2017, 02:44 PM

Aug 2017

And yes, the accusations, the attacks, the put-downs...are mostly coming from people who were NOT members when I got here at the end of '02.

Of course, DU hasn't really been "underground" for a very long time. The self-identification of "left wing" was dropped in the transition into DU3. The election of a Democrat to the WH in '08 was, as far as I can tell, the end of "left wing" and "underground," as the establishment rushed in.

Still, there are good discussions to be found here; they're just so much fewer, far apart, and relegated to smaller forums.

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I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of the Republican Party. [View all] Flying Squirrel Aug 2017 OP

McCarthyism is a good way to describe it. LWolf Aug 2017 #1