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In reply to the discussion: A pessimistic prediction from Joy-Ann Reid. Read it anyway: she could well be right about everything [View all]athena
(4,187 posts)23. So let's just let the conservatives wreck things. Brilliant.
Absolutely brilliant. I suppose that was why so many Bernie supporters stayed home or voted for Jill Stein. Good job. Now we can wait eight years for the Democratic Party to move left.
It will be eight years, by the way. I guess you weren't around when Nader supporters were making exactly the same point you're making now: that W. would be a one-term president, that four years of W. wouldn't be the end of the world, and that the Democratic Party would learn its lesson and move left. Some of us learned our lesson. Others, it seems, have not.
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A pessimistic prediction from Joy-Ann Reid. Read it anyway: she could well be right about everything [View all]
DFW
Nov 2016
OP
I think she's using the word as shorthand for "old school USSR, only with BMWs and high fashion"
MADem
Nov 2016
#15
LOL--most of the "Obama Scolds" here (most of whom have departed or been tossed over the side)
MADem
Nov 2016
#16
Hillary's not terribly "right." She's a product of her times, and has a JFK attitude on defense.
MADem
Nov 2016
#18
I don't think so. I think she is left of him on social programs, particularly women/kids issues.
MADem
Nov 2016
#20
Attacking Hillary and letting Trump win was not the way to move the Democratic Party left.
athena
Nov 2016
#26