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In reply to the discussion: Seems like it's checkmate. We lost. [View all]PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)24. Check mate. F that, I am going Galt.
Oh wait. Damn it! I didn't mean to say that...
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I'm appalled by the insane nonsense that passes for "Democratic mainstream thought"
MannyGoldstein
Aug 2013
#20
I want to cry sometimes too especially when I think of how my children have been cheated
liberal_at_heart
Aug 2013
#22
The dems should never have backed away from the word liberal when a two bit actor
CrispyQ
Aug 2013
#88
"While throwing a few social justice crumbs our way, they ride the gravy train"
zeemike
Aug 2013
#145
I absolutely agree, the way to identify them IS their intense hatred of the Left.
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#141
Your posts are one of the things that help me retain some shred of sanity . . .
markpkessinger
Aug 2013
#152
It isn't Manny who is fomenting dissent, it is the NSA's surveillance program.
JDPriestly
Aug 2013
#48
This used to be a place where people could disagree with vigor, but now it's like
MADem
Aug 2013
#63
Well, that was pure, disruptive, unkind fiction, but thanks for sharing, I guess.
MADem
Aug 2013
#94
Well, since Tom Tomorrow hasn't brought out chuckles the Sensible Woodchuck in a while...
Scootaloo
Aug 2013
#56
Agreed. The people who mock and criticize any poster who disagrees with the NSA program
Maedhros
Aug 2013
#122
The Third Way is the old DLC. They support wars and cutting SS and many other Republican
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#13
Some of them admit to having previously worked in intelligence or surveillance themselves.
JDPriestly
Aug 2013
#50
Curious timing of the switch from the DLC to Third Way, when discovered Koch bros. behind DLC...
cascadiance
Aug 2013
#130
If a Democrat who, issue by issue, was indistinguishable from Reagan came along...
Bonobo
Aug 2013
#23
You're right about one thing, the Third Way IS a Third Party, that has attached itself
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#35
OK - I see that. But libertarian droppings in any form to any end make me ill...
geckosfeet
Aug 2013
#114
No problem. We can still put our heads in the sand like Ostriches and pretend none of this is happen
quinnox
Aug 2013
#18
hey if the labor movement could do it the first time, I figure we can do it again. Of course
liberal_at_heart
Aug 2013
#38
Proud supporter of war, privatization, austerity, and global laissez faire capitalism here.
Zorra
Aug 2013
#80
Keep it up, Manny. Someday you will reach your goal of a totally information-free thread.
randome
Aug 2013
#87
Agitate-confront-usual folks mock confronters-recs & yeahs-rinse-repeat.
great white snark
Aug 2013
#99
Damned straight, Third Way Manny! I'm sick of those Paultards sticking up for civil liberties! n/t
backscatter712
Aug 2013
#103
Oh, come on Manny, You know the only reason Rand Paul is so against snooping,...
Spitfire of ATJ
Aug 2013
#129
Looks like only a few of us *real* Democrats left who haven't become Rand Paul acolytes?
Kolesar
Aug 2013
#149