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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 01:12 PM Original message |
Is America broken beyond repair? |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
1. Hopefully, we'll become a 2nd rate power that serves it's people rather than the corporations. |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
2. If not broken beyond repair, extremely fragile at best... n/t |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
3. Depends on how one defines broken. |
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MrScorpio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
4. Rethink the Empire and stop trying to run the planet |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
5. Yes, unless the ills of this society are cured, America is broken beyond repair. n/t |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
6. Perhaps we can just toss it onto the heap and get brand new one... |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 01:28 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. I bet Walmart can order one in for us. Let's get a longer |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 01:25 PM Response to Original message |
7. No. But the process by which it can be repaired is broken. |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
9. In a way, I think this terrible period is pretty typical...the times when it all |
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 01:44 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. I agree in theory that the Dems and the left are our only hope of survival |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 03:12 PM Response to Reply #11 |
26. The Democrats I remember as a kid would be out there kicking GOP ass |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 02:34 PM Response to Reply #9 |
23. It was those 50's & 60's that brought this about. |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
10. The powers that be are working overtime to break the USA. They want to form the North American Union |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
12. Not yet. |
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lpbk2713 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
13. As long as the RW Media Hatemongers are given free rein. |
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 01:54 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Couldn't agree more. |
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jobendorfer (429 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 03:14 PM Response to Reply #15 |
27. The 1st amendment isn't the problem, it's corporate personhood |
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riverwalker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
14. yes |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
16. Does the Pope shit in the woods? |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
17. I decded the U.S. was dead in 2000. |
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MiniMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 02:00 PM Response to Original message |
18. Yes, unless our jobs and the middle class make a come back |
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Speck Tater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
19. My crystal ball says that by 2050 the former U.S. will be 4 to 8 separate splitered nations. nt |
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cowcommander (679 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
20. Probably, it was fun while it lasted |
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maxsolomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
21. Things are more like they are now than ever before. |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
22. We'll find out November 2nd. n/t |
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Golden Raisin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
24. Yes. |
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OnyxCollie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-14-10 02:48 PM Response to Original message |
25. Yes. |
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