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Tom Rinaldo

(22,913 posts)
Tue Apr 15, 2014, 03:00 PM Apr 2014

If a big part of the Democratic base were as crazy as a big part of the Republican base...

...there would be a flurry of new conspiracy theories being discussed on progressive web sites like this about how the gun industry and the NRA (same thing, I know) were somehow behind the recent mass stabbings to undercut (bad pun, I know) support for "common sense gun safety measures". Even simply typing that sentence seems completely ludicrous to me, but hack commentators like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck make millions by spinning equivalent right wing trash talk. Supposedly main stream media willfully turns a blind eye to any objective comparison of the Left and the Right in this country, while continuing to stack the Sunday talk shows with Republican "leaders".

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If a big part of the Democratic base were as crazy as a big part of the Republican base... (Original Post) Tom Rinaldo Apr 2014 OP
If a big part of the Democratic base were as determined to have candidates that represented Warren Stupidity Apr 2014 #1
 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
1. If a big part of the Democratic base were as determined to have candidates that represented
Tue Apr 15, 2014, 05:16 PM
Apr 2014

their political viewpoint instead of settling for the same old establishment candidates, as the teabag Republican base is with the Republican Party, we could actually effect meaningful change.

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