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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Wake-Up Call for US Liberals
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Our political dysfunction has many sources, but one way to describe our problem is this: we have allowed conservatives to define the terms of debate at a time when conservatives have lost all sense of moral, intellectual and especially practical responsibility.
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Todays conservative intellectuals arent even bothering to offer irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas. Instead, theyre making calculated attempts to undermine our democracy, exploiting and manipulating a public that has decreasing resources for the kind of reliable information that would lead to a pragmatic liberal response. Its time we woke up to that reality while we still have a countryand a planetleft to save
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A Wake-Up Call for US Liberals (Original Post)
Triana
Apr 2015
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msongs
(67,347 posts)1. republicans do this because they can. dems let them get away with it. repubs will not stop or
change course until there are obstacles
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)5. Both parties are equipted with the feed bag of the 1% to win elections.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)2. And the only party we can vote for is infested with conservatives itself
Not psychopaths like the republicans, but corporate, wall street, 1%-loving conservatives.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)4. The upcoming election is extremely manipulated
The candidate has been pushed down our throats since 2012. How could they have done that? The MSM plays the game with the manipulators very well.