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tonyt53

(5,737 posts)
1. I used to think this was the case, but realized that I have to go deeper.
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 05:19 PM
Feb 2017

Have to look at how it could get to this point - that they could gerrymander so many districts. To do so, they would have to win the office that puts them in the position to do such a thing. As a lifelong Democrat, and in the first 18 y/o's to vote, I see a very disturbing trend. Democrats fall into a very broad group of ideologies. Republicans, as research has shown, all think in somewhat the same way. Us Democrats will vote for a person, regardless of whether they can win an election or not, similar to tea party nuts. But our ideologies range from equality for all to damned near hardcore communism. We simply will not vote for someone that is outside of our own ideology group. That gets us bad candidates and elects Republicans.

Hard pill for many to swallow, but it is a fact that is hard to deny.

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