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Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

sabrina 1

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2. I agree with this:

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Mon Apr 27, 2015, 11:50 PM

Apr 2015

In other words, they are trying to kill hope: the message of this propaganda is a resigned conviction that the world we live in, even if not the best of all possible worlds, is the least bad one, so that any radical change can only make it worse.

It works too, see all the admonitions we hear even here, 'the worst Democrat is better than the best Republican' eg.

'Think about the SC' or 'I will vote for the nominee even though I am not thrilled about it'

There is no expectation that we could change things if EVERYONE was willing to be committed to it.

Apathy, 'just let our team win and things will at least not get any worse'.

Good article, thanks for posting.

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