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Bubzer

(4,211 posts)
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 11:21 AM Jan 2016

Let’s set the record straight...

These are NOT democratic principles.

-Promoting war.
-Diminishing social rights.
-Attacking fellow democrats with specious lies.
-Advocating for Big business (They’re already big… they don’t need help getting bigger).
-Promoting, Pushing for or endorsing Austerity measures.
-Engaging in backroom deals with corporate interests.
-Engaging with lobbyists.
-Taking speaking fees from big banks or other corporations.
-Being anti-Union.
-Being anti-democratic process.
-Holding any anti-social-justice position.
-Establishing quid-pro-quo deals with the leadership of corporations or interest groups for personal benefit.
-Advocating or preserving private business in place of existing government run programs.
-Accepting “good enough” as a reason to not push for the superior alternative.
-Any action that is expressly antithetical to serving the common interest.
-Any action that is expressly for personal benefit.

Far from being an exhaustive list, these are just some of the reoccurring issues that have been seemingly embraced by a few of people here, for some baffling reason.

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