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In reply to the discussion: Wow, where did this come from? [View all]MineralMan
(146,116 posts)47. Platform statements are very nice. Implementation, not so much.
I lived through that period. Both parties, as usual, promised popular ideas in their platforms. The party that won did not follow through with those glittering generalities, I'm afraid.
Party platforms are useless in predicting how the winner of the election will govern. That is true for both parties.
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A graphic demonstration of what has happened to politics in this country in the last decades. (nt)
enough
Apr 2012
#4
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Apr 2012
#20
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#18
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#46
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Apr 2012
#68
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#72
Spinning and twisting into ever tighter misinformed little circles of willful misrepresentation,
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Apr 2012
#74