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In reply to the discussion: Time to make people mad: The modern left sucks and this primary proves it. [View all]Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)14. What's more "bottom up" than voting for a Leftist in the GE?
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Time to make people mad: The modern left sucks and this primary proves it. [View all]
forjusticethunders
Mar 2016
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the left does not exist as a movement. there are issue movements like choice, GLBT rights,
geek tragedy
Mar 2016
#3
That would start with being willing to allow the Democratic Party to lose elections for a while.
Bread and Circus
Mar 2016
#10
Right, because it's always up to others to do the hard lifting that you're demanding. Never you, eh?
CalvinballPro
Mar 2016
#56
no matter how many times you post that same tedious insult, it doesn't get
geek tragedy
Mar 2016
#45
You have admitted your only goal is to cause the Democrats to lose elections, that is your agenda.
geek tragedy
Mar 2016
#49
I suggest you start by visiting with family members of those who got blown up in Iraq
geek tragedy
Mar 2016
#55
Organizing, convincing people, and creating a self-sustaining movement
forjusticethunders
Mar 2016
#17
your knowledge of 'the left' is remarkably shallow, especially considering what you claim to be...
islandmkl
Mar 2016
#15
I just don't think you understand how politics and political power works.
Bread and Circus
Mar 2016
#26
"The left shoulda..." Who are the left? What is their shared apparatus of organization?
whatchamacallit
Mar 2016
#18
The "left" is big enough to get a lot of Democrats "not elected" if it galavanized and chose to.
Bread and Circus
Mar 2016
#38
you talk like someone who's here to help Republicans win elections, not contribute
geek tragedy
Mar 2016
#48
You don't seem to know what you are talking about so you and your buddy are making stuff up.
Bread and Circus
Mar 2016
#61