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2016 Postmortem

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DanTex

(20,709 posts)
Thu Dec 1, 2016, 01:39 PM Dec 2016

The pattern for the last 24 years: [View all]

The Dems win. Stuff gets better. Then the alt-left decides to revolt because we don't all live in collective farms.

Then the GOP wins. Everyone sees how not the same the two parties are.

The Dems get back in. Stuff gets better. Then the alt-left decides to revolt because we don't all live in collective farms.

Rinse and repeat.

Do we have to go through this every time? We need to find a way to explain to alt-lefties that the parties really are different without having to have an actual display of that difference. Because those displays are very costly.

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