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In reply to the discussion: When are we ever, as a people, going to start to _try_ to make this country less miserable [View all]zalinda
(5,621 posts)131. When you have been voting for Democrats
for over 25 fucking years and nothing changes, how long do you keep doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different outcome? Hillary will be more of the same.
It's an attitude that the Democrats have earned.
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When are we ever, as a people, going to start to _try_ to make this country less miserable [View all]
ProfessorPlum
Apr 2016
OP
Never. Wishing the worst for your neighbor is a uniquely american value. n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Apr 2016
#2
I have to agree. NEVER. We as a people have to feel that we are superior to the person next to us.
LiberalArkie
Apr 2016
#29
Sadly, it is in this obscene win/lose society in the US. People feel good about winning and others
RKP5637
Apr 2016
#106
Your point, again? that some people in the country have some disposable income?
ProfessorPlum
Apr 2016
#17
But that's my point. "Miserable" suggests a far higher level of struggle than I think is the case.
brooklynite
Apr 2016
#19
I don't think Mrs. Clinton is 'evil' so are you still on the 'Bernie or Bust' platform or aTrumpite?
Sunlei
Apr 2016
#78
It's very hard out there especially for the 40 -50 year olds. No one will hire them. nm
rhett o rick
Apr 2016
#24
just because you don't see us, doesn't mean we aren't here (and reading your words)
Viva_La_Revolution
Apr 2016
#37
New York is where those who got the cream from the top of the sour milk in 2008 live.
JDPriestly
Apr 2016
#57
Back in the 19th and early 20th century, we were a developing country, and there
JDPriestly
Apr 2016
#134
I live in New York, too, and neither I nor any of the people I associate with on a daily basis
Gene Debs
Apr 2016
#80
Nah, that's a negative way to spin our greatest strength, our diversity and tolerance
ProfessorPlum
Apr 2016
#15
Canada does all that Europe does with a near-civil war on its hands for several decades ...
MisterP
Apr 2016
#41
that's right, and the strange reality is that not only do they not cost too much
ProfessorPlum
Apr 2016
#25
Bernie has done an excellent job highlighting the problems with the Democratic Party.
Enthusiast
Apr 2016
#94
America is that way because that narrative was culitivated by the far right media.
Enthusiast
Apr 2016
#97
the GOP are a problem, but our number one problem is money in politics
passiveporcupine
Apr 2016
#145
It is Congresses job to raise the Federal minimum wage to $15. Americans have to stop electing Repub
Sunlei
Apr 2016
#46
I know but a good start is to not elect Republicans. The worst has come from them.
Sunlei
Apr 2016
#50
Mail-in ballots, absentee ballots.. there are other options, but yes, if one isn't all that
vkkv
Apr 2016
#98
Americans have been bred to think this is the norm and many don't even look out of the box, falling
RKP5637
Apr 2016
#104
NO! You cannot take away a family's Rolls and make them ride in an Escalade, or plain old Caddy. eom
Festivito
Apr 2016
#124
When we vote to make them miserable. Who do they really not want to work with?
ViseGrip
Apr 2016
#128
Western Europe has blood on its hands. It still exploits the third world for the wealth
McCamy Taylor
Apr 2016
#149
Many here don't want that. That's why they don't protest Hillary Clinton as candidate...
whereisjustice
Apr 2016
#153