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Bernie Sanders

RepubliCON-Watch

(559 posts) Wed Apr 20, 2016, 08:00 PM Apr 2016

When establishment types complain about us having purity tests... [View all]

You're goddamn right we have purity tests. We want politicians who work for US, not the lobbyists or the political elites. Anyone who criticizes others for purity tests of politicians have no backbone and no standards for how our political system should function.

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When establishment types complain about us having purity tests... [View all] RepubliCON-Watch Apr 2016 OP

I call it Authoritarian Adulation. rhett o rick Apr 2016 #1

^^^THIS RepubliCON-Watch Apr 2016 #2

Well, this time around I will watch and allow others to defend a system that continually Baitball Blogger Apr 2016 #3

neo-liberals are willing to give a little social justice to continue looting the 99%. rhett o rick Apr 2016 #4

Frankly, I think their public purposes come across as a bit scammy. Baitball Blogger Apr 2016 #7

Yeah that whole "purity" business is all about dismissing all us "Luddites" who are so dumb bjo59 Apr 2016 #5

I especially hate it when... RepubliCON-Watch Apr 2016 #6

It's just blaming the victim Hydra Apr 2016 #10

Yah, I'm so privileged... malokvale77 Apr 2016 #11

they're technocrats: 1,000 deaths today means $10,000 total profits per person MisterP Apr 2016 #13

It will never trickle down malokvale77 Apr 2016 #15

The critics have a kind of reverse purity test in that regard eom LiberalElite Apr 2016 #8

Don't they have impurity tests on policies? Depaysement Apr 2016 #9

It's not a purity test. It's a litmus test. And they fail it. hedda_foil Apr 2016 #12

It's not a purity test Half-Century Man Apr 2016 #14

Yes indeed... malokvale77 Apr 2016 #16

I see classic projection felix_numinous Apr 2016 #17

This message was self-deleted by its author felix_numinous Apr 2016 #18

We want *statesmen.* VulgarPoet Apr 2016 #19