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Be Realistic and Demand the Impossible! (Original Post) Fantastic Anarchist Feb 2016 OP
Demanding a historically gerrymandered GOP congress do anything for a socialist agenda isn't uponit7771 Feb 2016 #1
nether was demanding that an all-white electorate give African-Americans voting rights TheSarcastinator Feb 2016 #2
Its been done before and often in other countries around the world. Getting a historically... uponit7771 Feb 2016 #5
The GOP Congress came about because of the DLC. Fantastic Anarchist Feb 2016 #4
This is not reality, not even close and makes no sense at all given the way the seats were uponit7771 Feb 2016 #6
Thank you for your support. Fantastic Anarchist Feb 2016 #12
Bernie will just give his standard crazy hair, arms waving, angry old man speech workinclasszero Feb 2016 #8
Thank you for astute analysis ... Fantastic Anarchist Feb 2016 #11
Demanding a historically gerrymandered GOP congress do anything for Hillary Clinton Matariki Feb 2016 #9
We agree, cause Hillary isn't proffering an agenda that needs congress.. she's willing to uponit7771 Feb 2016 #15
Oh that's a fitting campaign for loyalsister Feb 2016 #16
Better than pixie dust politics that proffers getting anything past a historically gerrymandered GOP uponit7771 Feb 2016 #17
For a president only interested in their personal self interest that's probably the way to go loyalsister Feb 2016 #18
Bernie has a solid foundation. JonathanRackham Feb 2016 #3
I'll take some of that optmism please. Gregorian Feb 2016 #7
8 years ago there was this young man from Illinois....... JonathanRackham Feb 2016 #19
Hillary screams: "No we CAN'T!" ... But I know we can. We did it with Barack Obama. nt ChisolmTrailDem Feb 2016 #10
Impossible...what does that even mean? Doctor_J Feb 2016 #13
It means exactly what it means. Fantastic Anarchist Feb 2016 #14

TheSarcastinator

(854 posts)
2. nether was demanding that an all-white electorate give African-Americans voting rights
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 01:32 PM
Feb 2016

or that an all male electorate do the same for women. Guess what: they did.

Your politics are the politics of failure and despair. Grow a spine.

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
5. Its been done before and often in other countries around the world. Getting a historically...
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 01:43 PM
Feb 2016

... gerrymandered opoition party to lift a finger for a far other agenda hasn't

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
6. This is not reality, not even close and makes no sense at all given the way the seats were
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 01:44 PM
Feb 2016

... open in 2010.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
8. Bernie will just give his standard crazy hair, arms waving, angry old man speech
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 01:56 PM
Feb 2016

And all those hardcore teahaddisits will suddenly see the light and take a hard left turn and do the right thing for the first time in their lifes or something.

Matariki

(18,775 posts)
9. Demanding a historically gerrymandered GOP congress do anything for Hillary Clinton
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 02:01 PM
Feb 2016

who they've spent YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS demonizing isn't realistic.

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
15. We agree, cause Hillary isn't proffering an agenda that needs congress.. she's willing to
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 07:09 PM
Feb 2016

... take as much unilateral measures as she can and has stated this as a way around congress....

Sanders will soon follow her lead

loyalsister

(13,390 posts)
16. Oh that's a fitting campaign for
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 07:28 PM
Feb 2016

someone who feels entitled to the presidency. A president who campaigns on an executive order presidency should make us all a little nervous.
Gerrymandered districts and the people who vote there(yeah those little people who are so overlooked by Clinton), off with their heads, I AM QUEEEEEN!

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
17. Better than pixie dust politics that proffers getting anything past a historically gerrymandered GOP
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 07:34 PM
Feb 2016

... congress.

loyalsister

(13,390 posts)
18. For a president only interested in their personal self interest that's probably the way to go
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 07:59 PM
Feb 2016

A president who is only interested in easy personal victories (that's who it's all about in this case, after all) and has no vision for other people or the future would strike me as one whose interest is in having a notable spot in history.

Gregorian

(23,867 posts)
7. I'll take some of that optmism please.
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 01:55 PM
Feb 2016

Actually, I am optimistic. But today I'm frightened. I think Bernie is still a rising star, which means he's only getting more support with time. But I'm still scared by the notion of more years of nothingness in Washington.

 

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
13. Impossible...what does that even mean?
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 02:14 PM
Feb 2016

I sure as hell know that I'd rther have a president who fights against Paul Ryan than one who gives in to him.

Fantastic Anarchist

(7,309 posts)
14. It means exactly what it means.
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 02:17 PM
Feb 2016

I'm tired of people telling me that Bernie being President is "impossible." Well, that's not true. It's very possible. It's very realistic. So, be realistic and demand the "impossible!"

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