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2016 Postmortem

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7. Or perhaps the meaning of liberal has been totally degraded by the move to the right?

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 12:37 AM

Feb 2016

If those voters were true liberals, Sanders would have won every primary. Moderate is the new liberal.

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Progressives, we have a problem... [View all] MellowDem Feb 2016 OP

Maybe this election Iol59 Feb 2016 #1

Post removed Post removed Feb 2016 #2

whoa, dude RobertEarl Feb 2016 #6

Hey Blue, not to be argumentative but BillZBubb Feb 2016 #16

we Old Codger Feb 2016 #4

Only 44% of Democrats identify as "liberal". Dem2 Feb 2016 #5

Ahhh, so liberal means "march in lockstep" Dem2 Feb 2016 #12

No, liberal means, you know, supporting a real liberal candidate. BillZBubb Feb 2016 #15

Start a new one. This one is beyond salvaging. n/t VulgarPoet Feb 2016 #14

I think we have an even worse divide on economic and corporate issues dreamnightwind Feb 2016 #11