Poll_Blind
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Wed Oct-26-11 10:50 PM
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Wow- a friend passed me this video of protests in '68. The similarities are startling. (VIDEO) |
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I am blown away by how similar that footage is to what I've been watching on TV in the last few days. View the video I'm talking about http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x628861">HERE at DU. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana, 1924 PB
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Wed Oct-26-11 11:48 PM
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1. Yeah, and 1968 brought us Nixon, etc. So how do we avoid that? nt |
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Thu Oct-27-11 12:16 AM
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2. Maybe represent the interests of all Americans? Do we need 60 votes in the Senate for that, too? nt |
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Thu Oct-27-11 12:25 AM
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4. We need 60 votes for cloture, so that votes can take place. |
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Pretty hard to represent all Americans if you can't even get a bill to the Senate floor.
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Thu Oct-27-11 12:39 AM
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5. Don't vote for anybody who says he has a secret plan. |
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Thu Oct-27-11 01:17 AM
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6. I didn't. But the first time I voted, I saw my candidate lose 49 states. |
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I never want that to happen again.
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Thu Oct-27-11 12:17 AM
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3. What happened in 68 was a bunch of old union guys in hard hats |
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moved in first and started fights, giving the cops an excuse to exercise riot control as brutally as they wanted to.
They only exercised it against antiwar people.
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Thu Oct-27-11 01:54 AM
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7. Let's not go there again. It was a roller-coaster time, in which great strides forward |
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alternated with great catastrophe.
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