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Igel

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8. The winners always say suck it up.

Reply to anigbrowl (Reply #7)

Fri May 20, 2016, 07:32 PM

May 2016

Those on the other side say, "You need to accommodate us, to, because it's our country, too."

In other words ...

One side is all "elections have consequences" and "majority rules in a democracy."

The other side objects, blocks things and is either defending democracy or is obstructing the duly elected leader and hates democracy by blocking the will of the majority.

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