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2016 Postmortem

PufPuf23

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6. Independents don't like to be lied to or manipulated.

Reply to Bjorn Against (Original post)

Wed Apr 13, 2016, 03:47 PM

Apr 2016

Machiavellian politics is required for neo-liberals and neo-conservatives to initially win elections.

Once in office, these economic and political philosophies imbed and perpetuate themselves and spread globally.

Neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism of philosophies of elites that prey on weakness and gloat about their power in "creating reality".

I dream of getting neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism out of the Democratic Party.

We are looking at a generation of time and new politicians.

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