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2016 Postmortem

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ruffburr

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10. I thought i made it clear-
Sat Jul 18, 2015, 11:35 AM
Jul 2015

It was not perfect just a better outlook for the people, It amazes me how some folks around here can take a positive statement and turn it to a racist / homophobic/ anti feminist take on it.

My take On Bernie- [View all] ruffburr Jul 2015 OP
I agree peacebird Jul 2015 #1
You're right HassleCat Jul 2015 #2
let us not forget, Congress daybranch Jul 2015 #4
IMO people became dispirited under Carter not because things were not working but because jwirr Jul 2015 #27
The seventies weren't that good. HooptieWagon Jul 2015 #3
Pining away for the segregated and punitive past in a way that denifes 'average guy' as white and Bluenorthwest Jul 2015 #5
Reading comprehension problem? Look for this word in the very first sentence: "economically" Scuba Jul 2015 #7
I thought i made it clear- ruffburr Jul 2015 #10
A better outlook for some of the people, not 'the people' and that's the entire point. Bluenorthwest Jul 2015 #20
If we ignore history, well .. maybe you're not saying that 99th_Monkey Jul 2015 #26
So the civil rights movement did not give people of color a better outlook? And moving the jwirr Jul 2015 #29
I love how some people totally dismiss the struggle for Civil Rights back then sabrina 1 Jul 2015 #34
Unfortunately today too many think change will happen just like that. It fook decades for all of the jwirr Jul 2015 #35
A better outlook for all people? Cali_Democrat Jul 2015 #22
Well that is not completely true. zeemike Jul 2015 #28
You can never, ever, no matter how you try, make it clear enough sammythecat Jul 2015 #33
They understand, they are just shit stirrers Doctor_J Jul 2015 #40
So all who thought the previous decades were better then now Trajan Jul 2015 #13
Of course that's not what I said, I suggested that over romantic veribage about the past is Bluenorthwest Jul 2015 #23
I for one did not vote on any anti-gay ballot issue and I suspect that is why we did not answer jwirr Jul 2015 #31
You accused another poster of pining away for segregation Scootaloo Jul 2015 #39
How would Sanders have voted on that ballot? LWolf Jul 2015 #14
I support Sanders, I said nothing against Bernie, Bernie did not write this crap, Bernie does not Bluenorthwest Jul 2015 #17
+1 DCBob Jul 2015 #30
How about you write an OP rather than going into everyone else's and criticizing sabrina 1 Jul 2015 #36
I don't disagree; LWolf Jul 2015 #37
Show me where the poster pined away for Segregation, please Scootaloo Jul 2015 #38
The Republican War on Empathy won the early battles, but the tide is turning. Scuba Jul 2015 #6
Yes and no. Things were better for whites, but still sucky for minorities. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jul 2015 #8
Reagan started the pot boiling, with us in it. Martin Eden Jul 2015 #9
Awesome anology. Think we'll make it? PatrickforO Jul 2015 #15
I always try to retain my optimism Martin Eden Jul 2015 #16
Yeah, me too. At 56 I'm too old for pitchforks. PatrickforO Jul 2015 #18
At 57, I don't think violence will produce good results. Martin Eden Jul 2015 #19
No, you're right. After those kind of revolutions, there's always a terror. Not good, and something PatrickforO Jul 2015 #24
Yes, from about 1950 through about 1975, we had in this nation what is called by some PatrickforO Jul 2015 #11
Personaly ruffburr Jul 2015 #12
It was a prosperity built on excluding women and minorities Recursion Jul 2015 #21
Let America Be America Again highprincipleswork Jul 2015 #25
Also, since unions were more common the races blended in the workplace a lot more.... Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2015 #32
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