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Slit Skirt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-30-06 05:44 PM
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I think we're under some delusion that democracy still exists.....
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Imagine My Surprise Donating Member (938 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-30-06 05:45 PM
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1. Ditto
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LiberalAndProud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-30-06 05:50 PM
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2. You're right.
3 skirmishes

Gore
Kerry
Alito

It seems bhe was was lost before we engaged in battle.




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AntiFascist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-30-06 05:50 PM
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3. ngu
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European Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-30-06 05:51 PM
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4. Yup--the media won't even do stories on the stolen elections and...
holes in the gov't 9/11 story. We're already in lockdown.
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-30-06 06:06 PM
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5. It most definitely does not still exist. The Country was stolen from
Edited on Mon Jan-30-06 06:06 PM by ladjf
it's people by a minority. It will have to be captured back from the thugs, a formidable task. Conventional politics is not the way. We are going to need some very courageous and intelligent heroes, willing to take big chances, just as our founding fathers did when they signed the Declaration of Independence. I must say that they had a stronger hand than we seem to have today.

Those who sign on as part of the "recapture" army, will literally be risking everything. Many will die before the thugs are defeated.
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Slit Skirt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-30-06 06:12 PM
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6. I think you are right...into the streets and never stop till we win
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-30-06 06:13 PM
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7. Nail, meet hammer.
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How about some freakin’ election reform already?!
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Slit Skirt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-30-06 06:29 PM
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8. how can we get election reform
we can't even get our dems to vote to extend a simple......but crucial debate
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-30-06 06:37 PM
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10. Thank you for asking. :^) Same way we are getting steps taken toward
a healthy environment: one city, county, and state at a time.

This is a long-term project. We have no shot at making this happen from the top down, but we can do it from the bottom up. Clean up city and state elections and you'll have states sending better Sens and Reps to DC. Then when we have enough there we can get something accomplished at the federal level.

So no we won't have it overnight but it is worth having and thus worth working for.

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How about some freakin’ election reform already?!
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Generator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-30-06 06:33 PM
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9. Don't worry no delusion here
And one of the great things about DU-is there is amazing clarity on that. In the end, maybe it's for the best. I told my husband the only thing that will save this country is a revolution. It's still a long time away. But I see no other way. We are going to be a third world hickville in a few years. Then the fun begins. No jobs, no rights, endless war. Doesn't anybody remember the USSR? Now there's a party.

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Slit Skirt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-30-06 06:39 PM
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11. meet you in the "real" underground....
and we'll talk of better times
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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-30-06 06:40 PM
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12. That's only ONE delusion; there are so many, its a wonder we can talk.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-30-06 06:40 PM
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13. Remember when the little doggie pulled back the green
curtain and there was just this little frustrated deceitful man standing there, naked and exposed?

Or have you ever seen a gorgeous stage curtain that opens up on a brick wall?

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