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Election Reform

AuntFester

(57 posts)

17. That was a very different time.

Reply to longship (Reply #10)

Fri Dec 6, 2013, 10:15 PM

Dec 2013

The corporate takeover was only just starting. The echo chamber was just a glint in the of right wing thinkers. The hard right was William F. Buckley.

Yes indeed, a very different time.

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