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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Good Fight [View all]mrdmk
(2,943 posts)4. Character is still important to this society, up and down, left and right, what-ever to what-ever
There were a lot of views expressed back in the year of 2000 that were less than honest. To tell the truth, I feel as if most people were just glad to make it pass the New Year. Being told that airplanes were going to fall from the sky, a long list of assorted power grids that were to cease to function thus blow-up, Russian society is going to fail and become some sort of, 'Mad Max!' It was a hell of a year to have a presidential election when people were tired of hearing bullshit.
Today people feel empowered to call out the B.S. with impunity. For the most part, the media needs to wake up to this fact. Sometimes the media is very slow about these facts. Just like they woke up to the Vietnam war back in the Nineteen-Seventies after fifth-teen years of an annihilation of a country . For the most part, the media is too big, too expensive, and most of all, too full of itself. People are in a mode to not put up with it anymore.
By the way, Karl Rove was no genius, he got lucky with his timing. This is said because, there is a lot of doubt in my mind Rove could pull off another Bush Jr. if he tried. He's not that good.
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well, what do you expect? It's all they got. If you can't attack on the issues... nt
antigop
Feb 2016
#1
Character is still important to this society, up and down, left and right, what-ever to what-ever
mrdmk
Feb 2016
#4
Well said, keep on keeping the good fight, Bernie peeps...it is far from over. K&R
Jefferson23
Feb 2016
#11
Absolutely and well after should we win. I feel people are prepared for this fight for democracy.
Jefferson23
Feb 2016
#37
Would love to see the next president (Bernie Sanders) start a new New Deal Revolution. Undo
Dont call me Shirley
Feb 2016
#24