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2016 Postmortem

ProfessorPlum

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8. we should also be doing that, and should have been doing that for the last 30 years

Reply to brush (Reply #7)

Mon Dec 5, 2016, 11:26 AM

Dec 2016

Where are the prominent Democratic leadership voices on this issue?

The Democrats are paid to lose. They sometimes eke out a win, but it isn't because they protect their voting constituencies.

The Republicans are paid to win.

The results are not too surprising.

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It isn't really that hard [View all] ProfessorPlum Dec 2016 OP

and sometimes people are just hateful bigots. it's time to stop seeing these deplorables as victims JI7 Dec 2016 #1

Very much so. Their support for a racist is extremely evil. ProfessorPlum Dec 2016 #3

it's evil to vote for a racist, but NRQ891 Dec 2016 #6

I believe they were called out by Hillary and others yeoman6987 Dec 2016 #9

they were fine with non whites being attacked JI7 Dec 2016 #10

brilliantly stated - this party will either comprehend and respond to this truth NRQ891 Dec 2016 #2

H-1b abuse is a big problem ProfessorPlum Dec 2016 #4

'the important things seems to be to stick a thumb in local workers' NRQ891 Dec 2016 #5

Or we can stop repug cheating with vote suppression, et al. brush Dec 2016 #7

we should also be doing that, and should have been doing that for the last 30 years ProfessorPlum Dec 2016 #8