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Saviolo

(3,282 posts)
2. Trying not to sound too much...
Mon Feb 1, 2016, 01:36 PM
Feb 2016

... like a scolding mom, but the tribalism is painful to watch. Watching from Canada up here, and the same sort of thing is bleeding into our politics, too. It's discouraging, and I think that's a huge problem overall. It discourages people from voting at all, because if their candidate doesn't win, they don't have another candidate to vote for, only the negative construction they've had presented to them. On the other hand, if both sides just built up their own candidate, then if one candidate doesn't win, the other still has positive things to point to, instead of only negative.

Let's not discourage Democratic voters!

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