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In reply to the discussion: Does anybody remember the Left? [View all]quaker bill
(8,223 posts)49. This left supports an "Army of None"
I would prefer that they call for a war and no one shows up.
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Wasn't that some crackpot fringe group that briefly existed during the Bush years? n/t
Demo_Chris
Feb 2013
#1
The cancer that has metastasized throughout our society is the fruit of the radical right's agenda
indepat
Feb 2013
#102
Yup. I tell everyone these days that I'm a radical lefty and a radical feminist,
Raksha
Feb 2013
#131
Once built, the majority of those jobs are part time and seasonal, not full-time, with benefits.
Lars39
Feb 2013
#106
You hit the nail on the head. If there had been a draft, it would have been much tougher
rhett o rick
Feb 2013
#22
Yes it would. And by the way we werent all "frothing". Many of us were in the streets
rhett o rick
Feb 2013
#43
Not a Very Compelling Argument for the Effectiveness of Mass Protests for Ending Wars
AndyTiedye
Feb 2013
#140
Ask Dick Cheney, Bush, Rush Limbaugh, Dan Quayle, Bill Clinton (and so on and so forth).
Drunken Irishman
Feb 2013
#28
To own both parties (they have the wealth) to control government is so blatantly obvious that I
rhett o rick
Feb 2013
#72
If you really want to stump a centrist is ask them how they stand on indefinite detention.
rhett o rick
Feb 2013
#89
To be fair sometimes they are able to recite the weekly party-line talking points and that
limpyhobbler
Feb 2013
#127
Left is when we don't lawyer up to explain away torture, spying, assassinations,
R. Daneel Olivaw
Feb 2013
#37
There Aren't Enough Rich Kids for That, Even if You Sent Them ALL to the Front
AndyTiedye
Feb 2013
#133
Agree! in all but draft, which I fear will drive more American Exceptionalism, but I would consider
patrice
Feb 2013
#58
Left means pledging to NOT cut Soc. Security, Medicare and Medicaid...
ReallyIAmAnOptimist
Feb 2013
#59
Actually, pledging to "Not CUT" SS and Medicare is Reagan Republican, NOT "Left",
bvar22
Feb 2013
#91
A big part of the strategy is to not allow comments like yours to see the light of day
senseandsensibility
Feb 2013
#75
I love the liberal left, have been part of it all of my life. But the far left has been slowly
demosincebirth
Feb 2013
#99
Might try looking in the mirror, maybe? Go far to the left and you eventually will meet the
demosincebirth
Feb 2013
#119
they are both bullshit, but the logic is there. Hitler and Stalin were complete opposites and
demosincebirth
Feb 2013
#125
Left is when the rule of law is followed and, at a minimum, war criminals are prosecuted.
AnotherMcIntosh
Feb 2013
#110