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MannyGoldstein

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9. I love this:

Sun Aug 31, 2014, 02:57 PM

Aug 2014

"If you drop labels and don't try to change minds, USians poll liberal by something like 70%"

So true. So ignored by our political parties. But someone will fill that vacuum. To paraphrase Richard Trumka, people have "had a snootful of that #%^*".

I think there are two types of Democrats (and Republicans) - ideological, and tribal. Very different animals from one-another. We need the ideologicals to force the discussion to the left, which is happening but we need much more! Once that happens, the party will move to the left, and take the tribals with them.

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I have recently challenged the meme that traditional Democrats, which some merrily Aug 2014 #7

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Thanks. "Tribal" may be a good word for it. merrily Sep 2014 #11

That is weird MannyGoldstein Sep 2014 #12

I hope you're right, Manny to the G. Right now, though, I think TV ads and mass media still control merrily Sep 2014 #13

On the Republican side, I forgot re-appointing Bernanke--and that is before we even get to merrily Sep 2014 #14

I should add that the poster and I had a very nice total conversation. merrily Sep 2014 #15