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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
Tue Feb 16, 2016, 10:46 PM Feb 2016

Why not just engage the young and old dreamers and honor the dreams?

Why not feed off of the energy that that can produce?

What have we got to lose?

The idealists just want what we should ALL want, after all.

What we all DID want before some of us gave up.

This isn't even about who we nominate...it's about the attitude we as a party take towards both politics and life.

How can it possibly be a bad choice to NOT be fatalistic and dismissive?

How can it ever be better to say "not much can be done, and you should all just shut up and 'wait your turn'"?

The fight for a truly better world is the ONLY thing a party like ours should exist for.


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