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Warner Crocker | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @90bf4d25 Voting still matters, sure. But what we vote for has hanged irreparably. Newt Gingrich opened  this Pandora’s box. And you know how that story turns out.
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c1555667 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @edc128e6

We didn’t vote for the Republicans. In fact, a majority of voters didn’t.
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Warner Crocker | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @90bf4d25 True enough. We also didn’t turn out enough Dem votes in the few places it matters to attempt to counteract this mess.  Hate to say it but Dem leadership has been off the mark for a generation now. I don’t blame it all on the Dems, but they sure haven’t helped their cause or the average citizen’s cause.
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c1555667 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @edc128e6

It’s hard to run uphill backwards, and that’s what we’re forced to do in the face of Republican cheating.
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Warner Crocker | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @90bf4d25 We wouldn’t have to do so much backwards running up hills if we’d paid attention to what was going on at the state and local level. We didn’t. Now we have weights around our ankles while doing all that running.