A Wake-Up Call for US Liberals

[Triana]

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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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Today’s conservative intellectuals aren’t even bothering to offer “irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas.” Instead, they’re 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. It’s time we woke up to that reality while we still have a country—and a planet—left to save

THE REST:

http://www.thenation.com/article/201945/wake-call-us-liberals

[msongs]

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

[2naSalit]

3. ^^THIS^^

[L0oniX]

5. Both parties are equipted with the feed bag of the 1% to win elections.

[Doctor_J]

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]

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.