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2016 Postmortem

yallerdawg

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2. It's those freakin' colleges...

Reply to DanTex (Original post)

Thu Dec 1, 2016, 01:46 PM

Dec 2016

with their left-wing professors!

No wonder Bernie was pushing for free tuition!

It takes up to a lifetime to get beaten down into submission, but we do finally shake our idealism - and get pragmatic.

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The pattern for the last 24 years: [View all] DanTex Dec 2016 OP

Who are these alt lefties? HassleCat Dec 2016 #1

It's those freakin' colleges... yallerdawg Dec 2016 #2

We need to stop using the term alt right. They are Nazis Lint Head Dec 2016 #3

EXACTLY-- I posted something similar to this on Facebook, a few times actually. Fast Walker 52 Dec 2016 #4

Yeah, I'm sick of the shitturds on the Left being our biggest Achilles' Heel. BobbyDrake Dec 2016 #5

Keep fighting for those moderate republican votes. killbotfactory Dec 2016 #6

And then the alt-left gets smug when the GOP wins. DanTex Dec 2016 #7

In all the time I've been on DU, over several major elections... killbotfactory Dec 2016 #9

It's the alt-left that I'm bashing. The left doesn't help Republicans win elections. DanTex Dec 2016 #10

Yup, it is the exact pattern, and it is now being exploited by outsiders R B Garr Dec 2016 #8