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pbmus
Nov 2018
OP
But it will be a giant first step. We will be better off than the we were today.
marble falls
Nov 2018
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marble falls
(57,073 posts)1. Exactly. No shit.
RHMerriman
(1,376 posts)5. it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
- Winston Churchill, 1942, after the Allied victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein
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- Winston Churchill, 1942, after the Allied victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein
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kimbutgar
(21,112 posts)2. One election will not change the country as we have seen in the past.
marble falls
(57,073 posts)4. But it will be a giant first step. We will be better off than the we were today.
kimbutgar
(21,112 posts)9. I can only dream!
Too bad people didn't realize this in 1994 and 2010.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)6. Be prepared for some GOP candidates who refuse to concede
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)7. Exactly.
Rightwing evangelicals and their poison will still be around, the alt-right, American Nazis, the KKK will still be around. Progressive people that refuse to vote for anyone but their "perfect" democrat still will be around. Any combination of those can cause election loses.
INdemo
(6,994 posts)8. What about Mueller Indictmets that could be against Trump
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)10. I hate to tell everyone this, but...
No number of elections will change this shit. It doesn't matter who is president as long as there are racist, nationalist, misogynistic assholes, this culture will survive. It will survive until we take back the airwaves.