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Eleanors38

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3. No surprise at all. This brand of RW extremism has
Sat Nov 2, 2013, 02:37 AM
Nov 2013

developed from a culture which views its opposition as weak, immoral and easily rolled. Conversely, they view themselves as cold-steel hard and unmovable. These mythologies, based on considerable truth, are what brung 'em to the dance. The modern RW won't break; they won't even bend. They WILL confront and attack non-stop with every expectation they will win. But they can be beaten by a solid, Distinctive, meaningful and hard-hitting political party. The Democrats are not yet that kind of party, hence an ultra FR faction of a somewhat larger faction of the FR will continue to exert out-sized influence and true power in lieu of meaningful opposition.

Ask a bully: They know a handful of their kind can run the whole show; few want to confront them.

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