• deathbird@mander.xyz
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    7 days ago

    Well clearly the problem is 1/3rd of the party, and the solution is to conceed nothing to them and run to the center hoping desperately to peal off a few Romney-style Republicans.

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      6 days ago

      The crazy thing is just how popular socialism is across America. Deep rural red America can be quite supportive of socialist policies in practice.

      They just don’t like the words. The language is poisoned. So they keep listening to the chorus that condemns the words they don’t like. Their perception is flat wrong and based on specific lies, but that’s a hurdle that has to be contended with, and why it’s so complex to discuss.

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        Yeah I’ve been wondering if a socialist party calling themselves “the freedom party” would be able to fool all the idiots who vote against themselves. And when the foxmaxx talking head chuds start calling them commies they can just keep repeating “why do you hate freedom?”

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          It worked with the Patriot Act.
          Obama made it even worse but called it the Freedom Act.
          Americans are stupid