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simple question (Original Post) SodoffBush Feb 2016 OP
sing along olddots Feb 2016 #1
Long about election time I often get saltpoint Feb 2016 #2
I don't see the purpose... quickesst Feb 2016 #3
Here's a question that hasn't been asked before. nt Joe the Revelator Feb 2016 #4

saltpoint

(50,986 posts)
2. Long about election time I often get
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 06:01 AM
Feb 2016

a strong hankering for a progressive, people-directed candidate.

Say, for example, a Jewish Democratic Socialist from Brooklyn.

Bernie Sanders says he is fighting for what he's fighting for so his grandchildren will have a more fair world to live in. I like that thought. There's this old but good advice: It is perilously important to plant trees the shade of which you will not live to sit in.

But others will.





quickesst

(6,280 posts)
3. I don't see the purpose...
Sun Feb 14, 2016, 09:10 AM
Feb 2016

.. of these Democratic Underground polls when it is a known fact that one choice is outnumbered approximately six to one here, unless you count pumping up the volume as a purpose. For Hillary Clinton's supporters, it is pointless to participate.

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