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uawchild

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7. Liberality is a continuous spectrum

Reply to Otto Lidenbrock (Reply #5)

Mon Jun 10, 2019, 08:37 PM

Jun 2019

There's no liberal-progressive divide, there are just people being more liberal.

We change the labels after the fact and they are not permanent.

Today's "moderate" democrats were the liberals of Biden's youth.

My point here was to just point out how much change is occurring as time passes and generations change.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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