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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumscorporate dem, neoliberal, oligarch
If I were to do a shot every time these phrases were cast at normal, everyday Democrats,
I'd be dead from alcohol poisoning.
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NYResister
Jul 2017
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betsuni
(25,447 posts)1. You forgot establishment and status quo.
If I had a dollar every time I see these words I'd be an oligarch.
NYResister
(164 posts)2. Yes! I stand corrected.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)3. Most of the
people I heard throw around those terms in U.S. politics have shown poor understanding of their definitions.
leftstreet
(36,103 posts)4. What is a 'normal, everyday Democrat?'
NYResister
(164 posts)5. The one's who are more concerned about the damage DT is causing, and
focusing on that, instead of directing our anger towards Democrats.
Some of our "so-called" allies remind me of the old song by Firefall
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Our Democracy and our rights are at stake. Priorities matter. Republicans are the enemy, not Democrats. People who don't understand that, are not Democrats. Democrats, get it.
Voltaire2
(12,992 posts)7. So this op would be an example of the opposite.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)8. Establishment/Status Quo
We would be dead.
Not that your list isn't enough.