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Broward

(1,976 posts)
9. Sounds like you're living in a fantasy world.
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 12:57 PM
Apr 2016

People like yourself that buy into Third Way and Republican framing are obstacles to progress. Keep up the good work.

grasswire

(50,130 posts)
2. some of us have ethics..
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 12:52 PM
Apr 2016

..and the thought of turning the WH into Casino Royale Maison Blanc is off-putting.

boston bean

(36,221 posts)
6. Really, I don't. I've been saying it and feeling it for a LONG time.
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 12:55 PM
Apr 2016

Yet, seems people don't believe me.

I must make my protestations to the falsehood ever more clear!

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still_one

(92,219 posts)
8. Why some feel the need to delcare that they won't support the Democratic nominee in the
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 12:56 PM
Apr 2016

General Election if it isn't their candidate is beyond me.

Maybe it is a cathartic experience, but these unsolicited declarations that they won't voting for the Democratic nominee do get tiresome.

TheKentuckian

(25,026 posts)
11. Some just want you to know why you are in the wilderness should you end up there as well
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 01:14 PM
Apr 2016

as your path out of it.

I'm confident you guys will figure it out, and figure it out for true in 20 years or less but suspect without at least two Presidential cycles of extreme pain the idea won't get across properly unfortunately for the world.

Too many have gone way too far down the conservative path to recover any other way than having to live with what you insist on but without your choice of flavor.

Anything that allows you to maintain the current delusion is dangerous to the long term survival of the human race and the habitat of the other races of beings and creatures we share it with.

Looks like everyone is out of carrots, we never had any to offer that we haven't handed over for decades and you guys aren't even pretending to offer them anymore instead going straight to flogging fear because all the carrots go to the master's tables now.

Martin Eden

(12,870 posts)
12. "cherish your insults"
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 01:26 PM
Apr 2016

Thanks, I got a chuckle out of that.

As for "demands," posters on internet discussion forums are in no position to make them. It's possible you may be confusing strong disagreements and challenges with "demands" (though no doubt some challenges might rise to that level; this is the internet, after all).

However, if there is to be anything resembling a "discussion" among people who disagree, getting one's point across is usually intended to be as "convincing" as possible. Though that rarely succeeds, open-minded people will try to be objective.

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