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plethoro

(594 posts)
21. These are my thoughts also. If Romney wins the days
Sat Nov 3, 2012, 12:35 PM
Nov 2012

of holding up signs and sending out nasty emails are over. It will be time for nothing-left-to-lose inspired action. Lock and load.

When you're in your twenties, enlightenment Nov 2012 #1
I'm going to assume you're a white heterosexual man. nt sufrommich Nov 2012 #2
You don't have to assume it nichomachus Nov 2012 #3
I think he is trying to say it would be even worse than 1962, not saying that 1962 wasnt bad stevenleser Nov 2012 #27
1962, eh? The civil rights movement was just getting underway and MineralMan Nov 2012 #4
I believe I mentioned that nichomachus Nov 2012 #5
It was very far from perfect. MineralMan Nov 2012 #6
If you want to be pedantic, you're right Not Sure Nov 2012 #9
Having lived through that time means that I'm not being pedantic. MineralMan Nov 2012 #10
+ infinity SemperEadem Nov 2012 #23
++++++++ Whisp Nov 2012 #25
I should have said straight white male. MineralMan Nov 2012 #26
all I heaven05 Nov 2012 #28
Yes. The Republicans would take us to a dark, dark place. MineralMan Nov 2012 #29
Everyone looks back and femrap Nov 2012 #11
+10000 heaven05 Nov 2012 #20
I grew up in femrap Nov 2012 #30
well heaven05 Nov 2012 #34
While most of your post is a nice read, I just can't let those last 2 paragraphs go unanswered. DRoseDARs Nov 2012 #31
no heaven05 Nov 2012 #35
I don't believe I femrap Nov 2012 #36
Romney would take us places none of us have ever been reserved for Central Europe in the 1930-1945 gordianot Nov 2012 #7
Yet... femrap Nov 2012 #14
I thought we were headed femrap Nov 2012 #8
The post you are referring to was not intended to be a historical comparison between now and plethoro Nov 2012 #12
In 1962, my mom was fired for getting pregnant gollygee Nov 2012 #13
Probably from a low paying job she got by looking under sufrommich Nov 2012 #16
True, but 50 years ago treestar Nov 2012 #15
He won't take us anywhere Johonny Nov 2012 #17
These are my thoughts also. If Romney wins the days plethoro Nov 2012 #21
got heaven05 Nov 2012 #22
Everyone I know has started preparations, from cursory to exhaustive. I am in the middle....Good plethoro Nov 2012 #24
When I listen to his policies, I picture the pre-Medieval era ecstatic Nov 2012 #18
Actually, republicans aren't that crazy about the Magna Carta, MsPithy Nov 2012 #19
90 years? Hell they want to take us back to feudalism!!! Initech Nov 2012 #32
Take it back about *150* years and you'd have that about right - The Robber Baron/Gilded Age We People Nov 2012 #33
Good point. I miss the 60s. I really, really miss the 70s. yardwork Nov 2012 #37
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