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slipslidingaway

(21,210 posts)
2. We cannot and should not dismiss the deaths of innocent people and destruction of ...
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 02:46 AM
Jun 2016

their lives as some inconsequential moment in time, have we not done that with other people and looked back with shame.

The Repubs were at the lead, does that mean we should follow? And what did the Dems do, they cowered, Kucinich was a lone voice calling for justice.

We need a person who will go against the tide and stand up when the going is tough, not when it is convenient.


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bjo59

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4. I think the tragic answer is that there many people living in this country who are
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 03:02 AM
Jun 2016

completely indifferent to the deaths of millions of non-white people abroad that have been, and continue to be, caused by US Neocon foreign policy. I think many of these people prefer it when the "kindler, gentler" Democratic Party is represented by the person occupying the White House, though.

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