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PATRICK

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2. I have it in the shaky history of memory
Thu Feb 26, 2026, 12:55 PM
Thursday

That with Reagan's election and the disheartening defeat of the Southern moderate Carter(a long term goal of the politicians retreating from Roosevelt's big tent coalition) that a FURTHER "centrist&quot center right) goal took easy front line importance. Namely campaign funds from big donors mattered MORE than rank and file unions, minorities, And naturally, or stupidly, the efforts in actual campaigning by experienced union, minorities, organizations and rank and file volunteers or pros also got shoved into second place, producing a string of losses and all those little things like local elections. Sen. Wright I believe was hailed for this new approach the same way as Reagan was hailed for the same lie of "new" conservatism. Money muffled and muffed everything. What happened to that other thing in the memory hole of how every Congressman from day one had to start raising money. Practically his first week my Rep. Eric Massa was sitting down with Goldman Sachs about the 2008 meltdown and was trying to hold onto our GOP gerrymandered district by dodgy fundraising and still progressive voting? Of course he got kicked out supposedly for rumors that wouldn't even have earned him a post in the Trump government.

This is only a routine matter that is being taken for some new betrayal. A routine matter that itself is much bigger than whipping any individual Dem. The matter also being that AI is an ongoing apocalyptic crime against humanity(and the Earth as a whole) and any compromising like this is a BAD sign that it will not be addressed by those currently in power.

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