2016 Postmortem

John Poet

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3. I'm down with all that. Republican votes are welcome!

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 01:11 AM

Jul 2016

Progressive platform and all!

Really, the Republican party at its founding, was THE progressive party. They lost that somewhere along the way, and the Democrats became that party-- roughly in the period from FDR to the signing of the Voting and Civil Rights Acts-- at which point the Republicans became the party of racist dog-whistles and moved more and more to the right.

So if Republicans come to the Democratic party, they are merely coming home to the party which now promotes more of the ideals with which their party was originally founded.

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"Is there sanctuary for the disenchanted Republicans in THIS Democratic Party" [View all] TygrBright Jul 2016 OP

Very well said! The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2016 #1

Thanks! n/t TygrBright Jul 2016 #2

I'm down with all that. Republican votes are welcome! John Poet Jul 2016 #3

More than that because moost of what we want to do Hortensis Jul 2016 #22

No faith based solutions to problems Buzz cook Jul 2016 #4

Reality! What a concept! n/t TygrBright Jul 2016 #5

Tell them to fix their own party. Ours should be offering sanctuary. .. Scuba Jul 2016 #6

Exactly! Kermitt Gribble Jul 2016 #7

I stole this renie408 Jul 2016 #8

Thank you kindly, I'm honored. TygrBright Jul 2016 #12

*applause* auntpurl Jul 2016 #9

Fuck. No. sofa king Jul 2016 #10

You need a hug. n/t renie408 Jul 2016 #13

I don't want a single damned one of them in my government, in my party, or here. GulfCoast66 Jul 2016 #18

Thank you for your considered response. sofa king Jul 2016 #19

I assure you GulfCoast66 Jul 2016 #20

Hi and welcome to the party! renie408 Jul 2016 #21

Thanks GulfCoast66 Jul 2016 #23

It's a marriage of convenience--they stop Trump and prevent him from completely geek tragedy Jul 2016 #11

Isn't the goal to elect a Democratic President? BT35 Jul 2016 #14

K&R! DemonGoddess Jul 2016 #15

You called us the oligarchy back in May. It's still up on your journal. BobbyDrake Jul 2016 #16

Charles Mac Mathias Old Terp Jul 2016 #17