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2016 Postmortem

saltpoint

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2. Long about election time I often get

Reply to SodoffBush (Original post)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 05:01 AM

Feb 2016

a strong hankering for a progressive, people-directed candidate.

Say, for example, a Jewish Democratic Socialist from Brooklyn.

Bernie Sanders says he is fighting for what he's fighting for so his grandchildren will have a more fair world to live in. I like that thought. There's this old but good advice: It is perilously important to plant trees the shade of which you will not live to sit in.

But others will.

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simple question [View all] SodoffBush Feb 2016 OP

sing along olddots Feb 2016 #1

Long about election time I often get saltpoint Feb 2016 #2

I don't see the purpose... quickesst Feb 2016 #3

Here's a question that hasn't been asked before. nt Joe the Revelator Feb 2016 #4