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In reply to the discussion: The Lost Hosts Awaken [View all]H2O Man
(73,536 posts)9. Thank you!
In four sentences, you nailed what this old man babbled on and on about. We are America. And America is what we make of it.
If, for example, we want a compassionate society, we must be compassionate.
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As Obama has been telling us idiots since the beginning, if you want change then you have to start.
Fred Sanders
Oct 2014
#5
And how are we to do that, when the DC dems are the ones enacting these policies that are killing
Doctor_J
Oct 2014
#6
How did the civil rights movement do it, when the same could have been said?
Fred Sanders
Oct 2014
#8
Nonsense. Your ignoring of the teabag blockade and the media deflection is why you say that.
Fred Sanders
Oct 2014
#22
Gee, weren't there some actual large civil rights advances made by people who had organized
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2014
#39
Why the energy of 2008 got so quickly lost is not a mystery....the media embraced the tea baggers
Fred Sanders
Oct 2014
#20
The media can not be used by us, it has been sold to the highest bidder, the corporations and RW
Fred Sanders
Oct 2014
#30
My point is that your hard work and knowledge, sweat and tears, you heroes of organization and
Fred Sanders
Oct 2014
#38
Maybe you stopped. My community pressed on. Oh, how the moderates wailed at us to stop wanting
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2014
#24
No mention of the biggest civil rights victories of recent days in a discussion about civil rights
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2014
#40
Take the anger, rustration and feeling of hoplessness and direct that energy in a positive direction
PeoViejo
Oct 2014
#7
Vote so they know we're out here. You aren't counted if you don't vote. nt
scarletwoman
Oct 2014
#32
I mailed in my absentee ballot last week. I voted Democratic all the way.
Louisiana1976
Oct 2014
#33
I am a hopeless romantic: I will show up in person at the polls & celebrate democracy
librechik
Oct 2014
#41