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JHB

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9. By "radical progressives" you mean the KDP?

Reply to arely staircase (Original post)

Sun May 22, 2016, 09:47 AM

May 2016

The Communist Party of Germany -- Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands.

And you don't think you're stretching things in comparing American progressives in 2016 with them? Seriously?

Should we add "people who imagine they're the only reasonable ones in the room calling the moderate left "the Far Left"? Because we have a "Check" there too.

Speaking of not learning from history, when has scolding worked in this situation?

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By "radical progressives" you mean the KDP? JHB May 2016 #9