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Old 03-17-2020, 10:44 AM
 
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Everybody freaks out about Democratic Socialism while they hypocritically use all the publicly funded infrastructure and services and now it especially doesn't look so bad after all...does it?

https://youtu.be/CH-44CHBJcQ
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Old 03-17-2020, 10:46 AM
 
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Yes republicans (generalizing here) are just as bad as Dems on most everything.
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Old 03-17-2020, 10:48 AM
 
Location: USA
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Trump’s populist rhetoric also sounded a lot like Bernie Sanders. But the wedge issues* and red-baiting will prevent populist Republicans from ever voting for a populist Democrat.

*abortion, guns, immigration, gay marriage, etc.
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Old 03-17-2020, 10:48 AM
 
Location: Raleigh NC
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pay a little less attention to hipster millenials with gigantic holes in their earlobes and a mike that makes them the 113,000th most popular podcaster.
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Old 03-17-2020, 10:50 AM
 
Location: Raleigh NC
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that has several PoliSci degrees from Portland State which allowed him to be a Blockbuster manager.
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Old 03-17-2020, 10:52 AM
 
Location: Santa Monica
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Yes republicans (generalizing here) are just as bad as Dems on most everything.
Marxists (Democrats) and Closet Marxists (Republicans).

The pandemic just opens the door a lot wider for all of us to see the Republicans in the closet with their copies of Das Kapital.
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Old 03-17-2020, 12:56 PM
 
Location: Central Florida
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Martin Luther King Junior rightly decried "socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor".
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Old 03-17-2020, 12:58 PM
 
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Everybody freaks out about Democratic Socialism while they hypocritically use all the publicly funded infrastructure and services and now it especially doesn't look so bad after all...does it?

https://youtu.be/CH-44CHBJcQ
Bernie wants a lot of free stuff. Republicans don’t. Period.
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Old 03-17-2020, 01:00 PM
 
Location: 89434
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I'd rather have our tax dollars used for maintenance of infrastructure instead of funding deadbeats who refuse to work
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Old 03-17-2020, 01:01 PM
 
Location: deafened by howls of 'racism!!!'
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no one wants to watch a 14 minute hipster video sickie. tl;dr.
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