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socialist_n_TN

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2. It doesn't matter..........

Reply to liberalnarb (Original post)

Fri May 20, 2016, 11:45 AM

May 2016

This is just another in a LOOOONG list of programs that the people want, but the capitalists don't. So it won't happen. One of the reasons that Bernie has become so popular is because he supports these things that the American people support. But to the political class (the employees of the bourgeoisie), these types of programs are non-starters.

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