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In reply to the discussion: There is no meritocracy: It’s just the 1 percent, and the game is rigged [View all]brush
(56,362 posts)62. I've worked on the 3 last campaigns.
Have you?
And the issues you keep talking about have been discussed and rehashed here over and over for 4 plus years. And I've added my own comments to them as well. However, with the 2014 elections just months away IMO it's time to stop talking about what shoulda been and coulda been if only he'd have done . . .
What good does that do now? Quite frankly, we should be looking to new candidates in 2014 and a new. electable presidential candidate for 2016.
And if you call that deflecting, that's ok. I call it working for something that's doable and practical and while pining about lost opportunities.
There are no do-overs no matter how much you may want them, in life or politics.
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There is no meritocracy: It’s just the 1 percent, and the game is rigged [View all]
xchrom
Mar 2014
OP
So now he is pushing for neo-liberal free-trade and neo-conservative interventionism?
reformist2
Mar 2014
#12
You can look at "...unprecedented repug obstructionism...." as a separate issue.
fleabiscuit
Mar 2014
#19
It won't matter when he's out of office. But we will keep discussing Dem policy.
cui bono
Mar 2014
#65
But if you just keep working harder pushing that broom for more hours and less money, someday you're
Ed Suspicious
Mar 2014
#17