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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 09:41 PM Original message |
Maybe we oughta sit and chat about what it means to be a leftist |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
1. Someone unrec'd this! so "sitting and chatting" is verboten here now!? |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 06:36 AM Response to Reply #1 |
11. - OR - Someone wants you and others to think that it is. Now, why would someone want that? |
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Robert DAH Bruce (245 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 06:49 AM Response to Reply #1 |
13. No, |
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sufrommich (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 06:51 AM Response to Reply #1 |
14. Seriously? Do unrecs scare you away from threads? nt |
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cheapdate (197 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 09:51 PM Response to Original message |
2. Spoken like a grown-up. |
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KonaKane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 09:55 PM Response to Original message |
3. Here's why I'm one |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 10:16 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. And all of that is worth fighting for. It's worth a good hard fight |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 10:22 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. We should talk about the nature of the struggle, its characteristics and qualities. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 07:53 PM Response to Reply #6 |
40. Yeah, we actually do really need an ongoing discussion about exactly that |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 10:29 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Do you support those who fight for your beliefs? (And I am not saying you don't.) |
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KonaKane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 10:42 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. I do - but I also pick my battles. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
5. Learning how to win: Some of us need to ask ourselves where exactly we expect the enemy/ |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 10:39 PM Response to Original message |
8. Well you are a breath of fresh air! Usually people say they are for something and leave the work |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 10:16 AM Response to Reply #8 |
24. Personally, I think one needs to take that alleged FDR quote very seriously |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 04:41 AM Response to Original message |
10. I believe the "objectives" you describe need to be very simple.... |
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quaker bill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 06:47 AM Response to Original message |
12. Why I am a quaker |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 10:55 AM Response to Reply #12 |
28. I think that should be a "tomcat" |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 06:51 AM Response to Original message |
15. k&r |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 06:55 AM Response to Original message |
16. Woohoo, more condescending "Let's talk with the leftists because we're the grownups" bullshit |
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geek tragedy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 07:04 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. You realize that posting angry rants on the Internet doesn't make |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 07:10 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. And your point is? |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 11:06 AM Response to Reply #18 |
29. one thing you show about the left |
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spoony (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 11:40 AM Response to Reply #16 |
32. Excellent post. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 05:05 PM Response to Reply #16 |
33. oh dear ... |
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ljm2002 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 05:35 PM Response to Reply #16 |
36. +1000 n/t |
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Dr Morbius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 07:12 AM Response to Original message |
19. Here's the deal: most of us in America realize that our government sucks. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 10:20 AM Response to Reply #19 |
25. "They all suck" is just not a very helpful political analysis. I mean, |
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Dr Morbius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 11:08 AM Response to Reply #25 |
30. I didn't say "they all suck." I wrote that "our government sucks". |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 07:18 AM Response to Original message |
20. Another great perspective from a fellow DUer |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 07:20 AM Response to Original message |
21. Agree completely ... |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 10:35 AM Response to Reply #21 |
26. The left was very clear about their goals re health care reform. |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 06:19 PM Response to Reply #26 |
37. The conserva-dems were never going to give us that .... |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 06:25 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. My point being that activists will not cease agitating for what they've been |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 08:19 PM Response to Reply #39 |
41. So I can understand that ... but ... |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 07:25 AM Response to Original message |
22. +1 n/t |
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Yuugal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 07:35 AM Response to Original message |
23. unrec |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 10:44 AM Response to Reply #23 |
27. LOL! That's the first time I've been accused of being Al From! |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 11:18 AM Response to Reply #23 |
31. actually Bush had more congress critters than we have |
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Uzybone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
34. KnR |
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Uzybone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
35. KnR |
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Peacetrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
38. I am an old line Democrat, and a liberal.. |
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