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merrily

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10. My answer to that would not be a one or two line post.

Reply to Doctor_J (Reply #5)

Tue Feb 25, 2014, 03:23 AM

Feb 2014

The answer (in my mind) is a lot more complicated. For one things, contrary to popular percerption, I don't think liberals in 1964 won much of anything, either; and that statement would take me an essay to try to explain. But this thread is about whether liberals have been complacent for the past 50 years. Or whether they are gone now. I don't think either is true. You and I are here and I am certainly not complacent. Are you?

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Thank you for your concern, Adolph, but rumors of our death are greatly exaggerated. merrily Feb 2014 #1

Really? What was the last major battle we won? Doctor_J Feb 2014 #5

Guess it depends on your definition of "major." malthaussen Feb 2014 #6

The only ones who consider ACA a major victory are the insurance companies Doctor_J Feb 2014 #7

My answer to that would not be a one or two line post. merrily Feb 2014 #10

"We're all Republicans now." ReRe Feb 2014 #2

Well, the leader of the "liberal" party calls himself one Doctor_J Feb 2014 #8

Obama leads the Democratic Party, not the liberal party. merrily Feb 2014 #11

I rec'd because it is a good read, whether I agree with every single point or not. BlueMTexpat Feb 2014 #3

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True that voting is not "magical" BlueMTexpat Feb 2014 #15

Getting an absentee ballot every year is different. merrily Feb 2014 #16

I know that in MD, it used to be that, BlueMTexpat Feb 2014 #17

Bottom line, everyone needs to start making sure they will be able to merrily Feb 2014 #18

I absolutely concur! BlueMTexpat Feb 2014 #19

We also lost ACORN, thanks to a faked video and a trigger happy and/or merrily Feb 2014 #20

It does make one wonder ... hmmm eom BlueMTexpat Feb 2014 #21

Big Tent Centrism blkmusclmachine Feb 2014 #4

Don't forget pragmatism Doctor_J Feb 2014 #9

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the party stopped fighting for working people Bartleby73 Feb 2014 #14

And, thanks to the SCOTUS, we won't have that unless we have a Constitutional merrily Feb 2014 #22