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Hillary Clinton
In reply to the discussion: Let's talk about the "left" online media. [View all]brush
(53,767 posts)30. Good stuff. Your last sentence sums it up well.
I remember early in Sanders' campaign there was the economic equality v racial equality issues.
Though intertwined, Sanders and his people didn't seem to understand that the high-tide-raises-all-boats approach of his brand of socialism wouldn't also solve the racial equality issue.
Your statement on Blacks and POCS and gays already being part of the left is so true and goes unstated and unacknowledged all the time.
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Something I always say is that I learned the price of ideological purity on 9/11
sweetloukillbot
Jun 2016
#43
I've been calling them the profiteering left for a long time.. what was the name of
Cha
Jun 2016
#17
Mahalo, blue neen! That was it.. I use to call her and greenwald.. greenham.. for all
Cha
Jun 2016
#19
Ah yes.. leftbaggers & the teabaggers.. anything to take down Obamacare.. that's only
Cha
Jun 2016
#21
Not only was she besties with Norquist, but she was trying to sell the idea of joining forces with
BlueCaliDem
Jun 2016
#23
110% correct and an enthusiastic KNR! This is exactly how my evolution began back in 2004
BlueCaliDem
Jun 2016
#22