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backwoodsbob

(6,001 posts) Sat Nov 8, 2014, 05:26 PM Nov 2014

the problem isn't us or them...it is all of us [View all]

We bitch about them...they bitch about us...we call them fascists and they call us commies.

Do we ever speak to each other?

Maybe if we get out of our little internet comfort zones and actually talk to each other we could get somewhere?

I dont believe they want things much different than we do but the powers that be have manipulated both sides so much we spend all our time fighting each other instead of fighting the people who are really screwing us over.

Let's start talking to each other...THAT will scare the hell out of the 1%

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the problem isn't us or them...it is all of us [View all] backwoodsbob Nov 2014 OP

"I dont believe they want things much different than we do" rock Nov 2014 #1

show me that backwoodsbob Nov 2014 #3

Teaching creationism, church/state intertwined, JaneyVee Nov 2014 #5

Thanks JaneyVee! rock Nov 2014 #8

That isn't even arguable to my eyes, what is it not to see in that regard? TheKentuckian Nov 2014 #26

Amen. The greatest tool of the oligarchy is to keep us divided. woo me with science Nov 2014 #2

I have no illusions backwoodsbob Nov 2014 #6

you can go to Discussionist and talk to them for hours.... steve2470 Nov 2014 #4

or we can talk here backwoodsbob Nov 2014 #7

Never hinted at banning, my friend steve2470 Nov 2014 #9

IMO there's a difference between engaging Republican *or* Third Way talking points here woo me with science Nov 2014 #15

my own attempts hfojvt Nov 2014 #12

that's been the general consensus nt steve2470 Nov 2014 #13

and if we won we would do the same backwoodsbob Nov 2014 #17

then we clearly are fairly far apart hfojvt Nov 2014 #18

A recent study from Stanford found that political bias is even stronger than racism in the U.S. Brickbat Nov 2014 #10

The problem isn't really us, though. It's the corporate coup of our representative democracy. woo me with science Nov 2014 #11

No Old Nick Nov 2014 #14

Define "us" and "them" please. - nt KingCharlemagne Nov 2014 #16

Them?...the corporations and the 1% backwoodsbob Nov 2014 #19

I talk to republicans all the time - el_bryanto Nov 2014 #20

so true, very difficult to establish a common base of facts steve2470 Nov 2014 #21

then we engage them backwoodsbob Nov 2014 #22

One other thing to consider - DU is a place to blow off steam. el_bryanto Nov 2014 #24

Doesn't matter. Vote all you want… librechik Nov 2014 #23

The Great Divide Basic LA Nov 2014 #25