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2016 Postmortem

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EdwardBernays

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Sat Feb 27, 2016, 09:11 AM Feb 2016

Things a Progressive wouldn't do [View all]

- Sign of on weapons deals worth billions to countries that oppress their own people, hold mass executions of political enemies, and denigrate women

- Call those weapons deals a "top priority"

- Deliberately hide and obscure who is donating to your "foundation"

- publicly promote dictators to help a campaign donor get a uranium deal

- Endlessly lie about your political opponent during a campaign

- Use racist dog whistle politics to win votes

- Hire the owner of a massive lobbying firm as your campaign chairman

- Support that notion that hundreds of thousands of children should be imprisoned because they're monsters

- Change your stump speech to try and co-opt your opponents momentum

etc etc.

Pretending that progressives would do this, or that this is progressive behavior is DISHONEST.

Progressives don't check their morality at the door to make money or to win power. They don't change their beliefs for political gain.

Hillary WILL win SC today, but a progressive won't.

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Things a Progressive wouldn't do [View all] EdwardBernays Feb 2016 OP
. stonecutter357 Feb 2016 #1
...... daleanime Feb 2016 #6
K&R damn right Katashi_itto Feb 2016 #2
I thought I was reading about a repuke at first. libtodeath Feb 2016 #3
Exactly. RiverLover Feb 2016 #4
Of course, that depens on what the definition of is is. HereSince1628 Feb 2016 #5
Yeah really. Who made this guy "the self-proclaimed gatekeeper for progressivism”?" tk2kewl Feb 2016 #7
Exactly. It's a free-country, dammit! HereSince1628 Feb 2016 #8
But she's a woman and it's "her turn". Nothing else is supposed to matter. nt 99th_Monkey Feb 2016 #9
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