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Related: About this forumRepublicans are wrong - Americans do want socialism...It's as American as apple pie!
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Republicans are wrong - Americans do want socialism...It's as American as apple pie! (Original Post)
thomhartmann
Feb 2016
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Yes, but they don't want their entitlements spent on darker-than-beige people.
phantom power
Feb 2016
#3
bulloney
(4,113 posts)1. Keep the gubmint out of my Medicare!
Most of the old farts I hear in opposition to Sanders and what he stands for are the same ones who draw Social Security checks, are on Medicare and when they were actively farming, participated in all of the commodity and conservation payment programs they can qualify for. Oh! And did I mention that the vast majority of these people are hard core Republicans?
phantom power
(25,966 posts)3. Yes, but they don't want their entitlements spent on darker-than-beige people.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)2. K&R.....
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)4. We only get one shot at this
Don't screw this up. We all rock as one.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)5. Bernie has done an endrun around the conservative media.
He can't lose. 92% of Americans support his vision.