The Purity Test (stop shitting in the punch bowl)

[Mark Kohut]

I, too, do not accept the idea that good ideas can never win. I think they
always will (in time). Reality has a good ideas for humanity bias.

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> I don’t accept this idea that good ideas can never win, and good people
> will always lose . Franklin Roosevelt proves that wrong. Give people
> something worth having  and fighting for and they will support you.
>   Obama started with a majority and it seems to me he lost it when he
> failed to deal with the reckless lawbreaking of the Banks in the house-loan
> scam. His ACA turned out to be weak tea originally developed by Mitt Romney.
>
> I have not walked away from anything but wars of aggression and fossil
> fuel addiction.. You can support them if you like, justify them if you
> will. I will not.
> > On Dec 19, 2017, at 3:31 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Anyone with a complaint about Obama from the left, which must include
> most of us, would have been disappointed with a Bernie presidency too,
> because any legislation he would have wanted to pass would have had to get
> through a Senate and a House like the one that Obama dealt with for the
> last six years, not the Congress of his first two years that passed most of
> his legislative accomplishments. The choice is to take what's on the table
> and keep working for more and better, or to walk away in disgust that
> fellow citizens don't share our priorities.
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 12:13 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Anyone who voted for anyone other than Hilary voted for Trump, and they
> are assholes.
> >
> > David Morris
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 12:04 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> > Obama had 8 years to put out fires. He started more instead. The punch
> bowl is already full of shit and people know that. People did not vote for
> Trump. They voted against Hillary. That is what the polls show and that is
> what common sense says.
> > > On Dec 19, 2017, at 9:54 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > https://first-draft.com/2017/12/19/im-done-with-your-doug-
> jones-feelings-too-internet/
> > >
> > > "People I know and love are suffering and will suffer while we
> fantasize about having more than two parties, about not having to choose
> between the arsonists and the (dumb, underfunded, likely corrupt) fire
> brigade. Me and mine would like the fires out."
> > >
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