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Prue

(139 posts)
7. It got caught up in the deflection
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 09:50 AM
Feb 2020
Where was the Democratic Night Watch on this issue?


The left was too busy getting bamboozled into apologizing for valuing education. The right framed education as a bad thing, twisting it to mean education was the left being elitists.

I remember watching the leaders on the left try to placate those who were offended and turn around and apologize rather than challenge the premise that education was bad. The right successfully redefined stupidity as a good thing and thus the tea party and trump's base were born.

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It got caught up in the deflection Prue Feb 2020 #7
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