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wherein the curious will find more of what might be found on the original site:
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I would like, just once, to see “compromise” in American politics mean something other than “Republicans get very nearly everything they want while Democrats get very nearly nothing of what they want.”
I’d also like to see Democrats just stand up for what they supposedly believe in. The damned ship is going down, so why not go down fighting? Does the Democratic response to everything need to be to resignedly remove their pants while saying, “Well, now, let’s just close our eyes and think of America”?!