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If you want to be taken serious try ending the red baiting. libtodeath Feb 2016 #1
There was no red baiting at all cosmicone Feb 2016 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author Xipe Totec Feb 2016 #10
Reading comprehension (heck, reading *period*) is your friend. kath Feb 2016 #28
comrade Bernie ? pangaia Feb 2016 #37
This message was self-deleted by its author cannabis_flower Feb 2016 #103
Quasi-Marxist isn't red-baiting? cannabis_flower Feb 2016 #104
I literally got to that comment and stopped reading the rest. RichVRichV Feb 2016 #127
You're loss - good points made CajunBlazer Feb 2016 #137
Even then...The "Bernie is a one track candidate" is such a false non-starter from the campaign. merrily Feb 2016 #152
I got as far as "comrade Bernie" n/t TubbersUK Feb 2016 #2
wow Merryland Feb 2016 #3
DU REC! bravenak Feb 2016 #4
Of course, that is what the Rev. King believed also. kristopher Feb 2016 #117
Now you're for redbaiting ?! Arazi Feb 2016 #133
Yeah yeah yeah bravenak Feb 2016 #134
This message was self-deleted by its author cosmicone Feb 2016 #5
Kicked and highly recommended n/t cosmicone Feb 2016 #7
Carefully considered post...a heart K & R Sheepshank Feb 2016 #97
thanks for the heart and the K&R kennetha Feb 2016 #107
Blah.Blah. Bernie bad. Hilly good. Blah blah blah cali Feb 2016 #8
+1. nt nc4bo Feb 2016 #9
Yep, My parents knew a lot of filthy-rich people (Father was a surgeon) BlueJazz Feb 2016 #22
I guess that balances out your Blah.Blah. Hilly bad. Bernie good. Blah blah blah. JTFrog Feb 2016 #39
Super intellegent comment CajunBlazer Feb 2016 #138
Some music for a thread about hammers Fumesucker Feb 2016 #11
Always liked Seeger. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2016 #79
Sanders makes it seem like DURHAM D Feb 2016 #12
Very astute observation ProgressiveEconomist Feb 2016 #147
So what you're saying is you like Ronald Reagan? Gregorian Feb 2016 #13
Wow kennetha Feb 2016 #14
Sorry, I garnered that by reading between the incomplete sentences.. Gregorian Feb 2016 #15
What do you mean wow. Your OP sounds like it was written by a conservative republican. nt m-lekktor Feb 2016 #18
I don't think you can read kennetha Feb 2016 #20
IMO 99Forever Feb 2016 #100
So how do you account for Rev.King believing the same thing as Sanders? kristopher Feb 2016 #119
I got from this that its better to keep minorities poor than to give them jobs or pay them more. RiverLover Feb 2016 #17
Glaring non-sequitur of kennetha Feb 2016 #21
You have now used 'non-sequitor' twice, at least. pangaia Feb 2016 #42
Reagan started this, more or less Recursion Feb 2016 #19
And in the Twitter Era that's sadly what it takes to win Recursion Feb 2016 #16
And another similarity - Assurances that they will fix everything CajunBlazer Feb 2016 #139
Wrong, Bernie Sanders continues to remind us Karma13612 Feb 2016 #145
I feel so sorry for the poor, downtrodden, billionaires being attacked by "comrade" Bernie. Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2016 #23
Who said billionaires are downtrodden? kennetha Feb 2016 #25
Wouild "Picked on"? Balamed? Scorned? Attacked? Defamed? be more apt. Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2016 #32
the question is whether billionaires are responsible for kennetha Feb 2016 #38
Which is like asking if the Mafia is responsible for all our ills. Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2016 #47
Hillary supporters. Nails that see hammers everywhere raised against them. hobbit709 Feb 2016 #24
you seem incapable kennetha Feb 2016 #26
Have you looked in the mirror. hobbit709 Feb 2016 #29
Try responding to something I actually said with a thought of substance kennetha Feb 2016 #31
What substance have you actually provided? hobbit709 Feb 2016 #33
you can't read obviously. kennetha Feb 2016 #35
And you won't. hobbit709 Feb 2016 #41
And, sicles. Don't forget the sickles, comrade. Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2016 #36
Comrade? let me put forth my biggest randys1 Feb 2016 #27
The billionaire class is absolutely responsible for the decay, My Good Babushka Feb 2016 #30
What about racism and xenophobia kennetha Feb 2016 #34
Maybe this attitude had something to do with it hobbit709 Feb 2016 #40
Right that's the marxist and quasi-marxist line that I was talking about. kennetha Feb 2016 #44
Jay Gould spouting Marxist lines-that IS the funniest thing I've come to in your posts yet. hobbit709 Feb 2016 #46
All Marxists are economic determinists kennetha Feb 2016 #49
Do you even know who Jay Gould was? hobbit709 Feb 2016 #51
yeah. kennetha Feb 2016 #54
So your argument is what? OrwellwasRight Feb 2016 #57
Jeepers. kennetha Feb 2016 #61
Actually I don't. OrwellwasRight Feb 2016 #62
Unfortunately, not many historical examples. Chile might have been floppyboo Feb 2016 #70
What do you believe then? kristopher Feb 2016 #122
Actually keeping the masses from uniting together keeps the elitists in power OrwellwasRight Feb 2016 #53
the question is does it go the other way round. kennetha Feb 2016 #55
Who do you think promoted that? OrwellwasRight Feb 2016 #58
They sure think they do. kennetha Feb 2016 #66
Wrong, wrong, wrong. OrwellwasRight Feb 2016 #68
They immigrant or the black guy kennetha Feb 2016 #71
Um, yes, they are working, for less. OrwellwasRight Feb 2016 #76
yes I know all that kennetha Feb 2016 #80
Again, willful blindness. OrwellwasRight Feb 2016 #85
Ad hominem insults kennetha Feb 2016 #86
Do you even know what ad hominem is? OrwellwasRight Feb 2016 #87
willful blindness kennetha Feb 2016 #90
Uh, no. OrwellwasRight Feb 2016 #91
You are condescending to ProgressiveEconomist Feb 2016 #101
I very much appreciate the fact that you find other posters OrwellwasRight Feb 2016 #114
This sounds like stubborn ProgressiveEconomist Feb 2016 #115
WTF are you talking about? OrwellwasRight Feb 2016 #116
Did you really read and savor every ProgressiveEconomist Feb 2016 #121
It's not that I didn't read it. OrwellwasRight Feb 2016 #128
None so blind ... ProgressiveEconomist Feb 2016 #131
Look in the mirror. OrwellwasRight Feb 2016 #135
Follow your own advice ProgressiveEconomist Feb 2016 #142
You too. OrwellwasRight Feb 2016 #146
You don't think slave-owning was all about money? Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2016 #84
Final Exam Question kennetha Feb 2016 #88
For many reasons. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2016 #92
I think that's partially right. kennetha Feb 2016 #94
Is Nestle working little white children to death in the cocoa fields? My Good Babushka Feb 2016 #110
Are they responsible for racism or xenophobia? PatrickforO Feb 2016 #154
Are you REALLY this naive? pangaia Feb 2016 #43
naive? kennetha Feb 2016 #45
NOPE, he knows EXACTLY what he is doing. hobbit709 Feb 2016 #50
Sanders is right to see class warfare at the bottom of most of our ills. Orsino Feb 2016 #48
You and I disagree, I think on one thing. kennetha Feb 2016 #52
Economic inequality is linked to racial inequality. Orsino Feb 2016 #56
Definitely in one way you are right. kennetha Feb 2016 #60
Yeah. There's no need to decide which issue must be handled first... Orsino Feb 2016 #72
a meeting of the minds! kennetha Feb 2016 #73
So much work... TL;DR whatchamacallit Feb 2016 #59
short version: Kennetha can read Bernie's mind, Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2016 #78
Yeah, kinda got the gist from the title whatchamacallit Feb 2016 #89
A huge K&R - GREAT Post - darn, I am out of hearts CajunBlazer Feb 2016 #140
Dissent will NOT be tolerated. The revolution must proceed. Resistance is futile. Persondem Feb 2016 #63
We need a man with a hammer and nails. It's time to build some wealth Autumn Feb 2016 #64
Kennetha, you wrote: "They have to draw workers from somewhere. floppyboo Feb 2016 #65
What helps the billionaires is a fearful and alienated society. Ron Green Feb 2016 #67
Why don't we have this already? kennetha Feb 2016 #69
"the billionaire class has almost not say in the management of local schools"? OrwellwasRight Feb 2016 #74
I'd be interested to know your age and experience in matters of Ron Green Feb 2016 #77
I'm an old black guy, father born in the depths of Jim Crow segregation, dirt poor sharecropper. kennetha Feb 2016 #82
OK - I'm an old white guy, grew up in a county 40% black (my first playmates Ron Green Feb 2016 #112
"Moving into post-racial society"? ProgressiveEconomist Feb 2016 #99
See my reply #112. Ron Green Feb 2016 #113
And Hillary is a woman who has a hammer but doesn't believe in using it, Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2016 #75
Actually she wants to use the claw end to help pry up the nails. hobbit709 Feb 2016 #83
Yes, because of the world's oldest profession. Festivito Feb 2016 #81
What are your views on capitalist social relations ? AOR Feb 2016 #93
Good stuff. kennetha Feb 2016 #95
Kick and recommend. oasis Feb 2016 #96
BRILLIANT post! Scapegoating ProgressiveEconomist Feb 2016 #98
"He's just a man with a hammer who sees nails everywhere." workinclasszero Feb 2016 #102
"Money trumps peace" azmom Feb 2016 #105
Well at least he doesn't see dollar signs everywhere he looks. n/t nichomachus Feb 2016 #106
Yep, nails everywhere... TCJ70 Feb 2016 #108
Billions are being made on our broken immigration azmom Feb 2016 #109
The US is not a single issue nation Gothmog Feb 2016 #111
Racism thrives in the absence of class solidarity. lumberjack_jeff Feb 2016 #118
So in other words UglyGreed Feb 2016 #120
See, you support the candidate who attacked my basic rights on the basis that her Bible is a hammer Bluenorthwest Feb 2016 #123
Great essay, thanks for posting it. Beacool Feb 2016 #124
Another rare post in ProgressiveEconomist Feb 2016 #125
Thanks for the link. Beacool Feb 2016 #129
Agreed. Jensen downplayed ProgressiveEconomist Feb 2016 #132
True... Beacool Feb 2016 #136
I think paid family leave ProgressiveEconomist Feb 2016 #141
Yes, I like Pete Seeger. Beacool Feb 2016 #149
That analogy is used to explain people (like Hillary) who always use the military option when Motown_Johnny Feb 2016 #126
How American Thinker of you... stunning imagery. Ellipsis Feb 2016 #130
TL;DR. Stopped at "Comrade Bernie" because the derp started to splash over the rim of the bowl. Warren DeMontague Feb 2016 #143
Otherwise known as having a coherent message eridani Feb 2016 #144
breaking down all the barriers kennetha Feb 2016 #148
There is nothing in there about what she proposes to do about any of that. n/t eridani Feb 2016 #150
Comrade Sanders? Desperate much? merrily Feb 2016 #151
Quasi-Marxist, is it? PatrickforO Feb 2016 #153
Excellent post. lovemydog Feb 2016 #155
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