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8. And yet by almost any measure, we're more equal society

Reply to RKP5637 (Reply #3)

Sat Sep 22, 2018, 01:44 PM

Sep 2018

Same sex marriage, far closer to universal health care, a black guy with a foreign sounding name was president, a woman came within an inch of being president, minorities have the right to vote, etc.

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Why is the decision on Kavanaugh so difficult? [View all] Jarqui Sep 2018 OP

Power. Party. Patriarchal. Guilded Lilly Sep 2018 #1

Exactly!!! The US has become so far from what I envisioned in my youth. It's become ugly, driven by RKP5637 Sep 2018 #3

And yet by almost any measure, we're more equal society mythology Sep 2018 #8

It's really mind-bending!!! ... at a turning point. An endless WTF to me. n/t RKP5637 Sep 2018 #9

repugs sucking up to trump, give him the Court he wants. elleng Sep 2018 #2

Actually, it's to give them the court THEY want. they've been rigging this for 30 years. catbyte Sep 2018 #5

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Precisely because of the ideological litmus test Hatch and other Republicans impose. Garrett78 Sep 2018 #6

If Hatch believed what he said, Merrick Garland would have been spooky3 Sep 2018 #7