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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]Hotler
(11,475 posts)142. Fuck you! I have mine.......
Not until that phrase goes away. Selfishness is what drives conservatives and the rich.
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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