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Showing Original Post only (View all)All day today, I've read posts from High Horse posters [View all]
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Usually relatively low in post count, but high in "support the party, or else".
I'm not "young". I'm 43.
Calling me an idealist searching for a Utopia isn't exactly going to work for me, either, because I've heard it already from every Republican under the sun since I was in elementary school.
Now Democrats are saying that it is "searching for Utopia" to speak up about things like wealth inequality, getting money out of politics and decreasing our military budget?
If you espouse this, if you believe in pushing it, I didn't leave the party - it left me.
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Republicans are authoritarians which mean they move up until someone stronger stops them
Fumesucker
Jun 2016
#31
think I lost a lot of idealism with Obama. He was going to change the
Laura PourMeADrink
Jun 2016
#22
Sometimes I feel like a lot of folks here just discovered Liberalism under Dubya....
Spitfire of ATJ
Jun 2016
#30
This low poster agrees. Richest country on planet can't pay for common good.
George Eliot
Jun 2016
#35
No kidding. I'm in Texas and what I hear from too many DUers is the same stuff Republicans say.
Zen Democrat
Jun 2016
#81