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AgingAmerican

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19. In political science

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Sun Jul 13, 2014, 07:17 PM

Jul 2014

It means, 'satisfied with the status quo'.

In the GOP it means pretty much what the OP says. The GOP are NOT conservatives though, they are radical reactionary statists.

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Kicking. nt littlemissmartypants Jul 2014 #5

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