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factfinder_77

(841 posts) Fri Jul 28, 2017, 12:18 AM Jul 2017

Bernie Sanders: GOP is now a right-wing extremist party

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Source: MSNBC

The Republican Party is dominated by the far right wing 'Koch brothers ideology,' says Senator Bernie Sanders, and they want to eliminate 'every federal program passed in the last eighty years.'

Read more: http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/bernie-sanders-gop-is-now-a-right-wing-extremist-party-1011759683986

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Bernie Sanders: GOP is now a right-wing extremist party (Original Post) factfinder_77 Jul 2017 OP

Geez, Bernie, ya think? stopbush Jul 2017 #1

how is this lbn? nt msongs Jul 2017 #2

Exactly my thought. George II Jul 2017 #5

The GOP has been a right-wing extremist group for years now. Solly Mack Jul 2017 #3

Well duh emulatorloo Jul 2017 #4

Well, OK, sure. He's not wrong. DFW Jul 2017 #6

The GOP is an anti-American cult. They and their wealthy clients are parasites on the goodwill of lutherj Jul 2017 #7

Locked: this is opinion, please repost in General Discussion George II Jul 2017 #8

It was a thoughtful interview which helped to explain that the current ill-conceived attempts to diva77 Jul 2017 #9

stopbush

(24,396 posts)

1. Geez, Bernie, ya think?

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Fri Jul 28, 2017, 12:19 AM

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msongs

(67,403 posts)

2. how is this lbn? nt

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Fri Jul 28, 2017, 12:23 AM

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George II

(67,782 posts)

5. Exactly my thought.

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Fri Jul 28, 2017, 12:26 AM

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Solly Mack

(90,764 posts)

3. The GOP has been a right-wing extremist group for years now.

Reply to factfinder_77 (Original post)

Fri Jul 28, 2017, 12:23 AM

Jul 2017

Calling them such doesn't bother them though. They have no shame and they're pleased with themselves.

emulatorloo

(44,120 posts)

4. Well duh

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Fri Jul 28, 2017, 12:25 AM

Jul 2017

Love Bernie. This is stating the obvious though.

DFW

(54,369 posts)

6. Well, OK, sure. He's not wrong.

Reply to factfinder_77 (Original post)

Fri Jul 28, 2017, 12:26 AM

Jul 2017

It's just that the way he put it indicates that he has taken twenty years longer than the rest of us to have figured that out, and somehow, I don't think that's really the case.

Congratulations on the headline, Senator, but you're not telling anybody something they didn't know a long time ago.

lutherj

(2,496 posts)

7. The GOP is an anti-American cult. They and their wealthy clients are parasites on the goodwill of

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Fri Jul 28, 2017, 12:36 AM

Jul 2017

the American people, the American work ethic, and the basic decency of all humanity. If allowed to, they will suck until the host is dead. Then they will blame the host for being weak, and move on to fresh meat. They will treat the American people the way they treat their wives.

George II

(67,782 posts)

8. Locked: this is opinion, please repost in General Discussion

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Fri Jul 28, 2017, 12:37 AM

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diva77

(7,640 posts)

9. It was a thoughtful interview which helped to explain that the current ill-conceived attempts to

Reply to factfinder_77 (Original post)

Fri Jul 28, 2017, 12:37 AM

Jul 2017

repeal Obamacare could succeed and would be just the beginning of privatizing medicare, etc. and then he tied it in with the Koch bros. and other billionaires that want to remove the public safety net altogether.

That message needs to be repeated over and over; I don't understand the "not helping" take on this.

Unfortunately, the headline for the interview does not sum up the contents within