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brad ziegel's avatar

Even if you dislike a Democratic candidate,while we fight to keep our Constitutional republic,please keep opposing all Republicans in every seat and every election this is you're only weapon against fascism at this time

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Ellie Alive In 25's avatar

Opposing Republicans is why Cuomo made it into the Governor's mansion. Many of us looked at him and said, "Not good - but at least he's not a Republican."

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brad ziegel's avatar

Never use a universal analogy for everything and try to understand that at this time we are losing our country so in a state of emergency we vote blue to stop the red this doesn't mean FOREVER it means for now.

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Ellie Alive In 25's avatar

I wasn't aware I was using a "universal analogy." I was expressing the thoughts I had, along with many others in NYS, at the time Cuomo the Less was elected.

For me, voting "blue" is forever, and it has been since 1992. Note: I said for me. I don't presume to tell others how to vote.

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brad ziegel's avatar

Right now we concentrate on removing Trump not worrying too much about after that,and hopefully he leaves office because they have no intention of leaving peacefully.

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DR Darke's avatar

Your whole "Vote Blue No Matter Who" is why we ended up with "President Donald Trump" in the First Place! The DNC "firewall" of Industrial Middle America, who kept losing jobs due to Clinton Neoliberal policies like trade agreements that encouraged business to "outsource" to cheaper countries with lower wages and fewer health and safety provisions, and in fact ENCOURAGED that kind of behavior, took a look at Bernie Sanders and said, "HmmmтАФI'm not sure about him, but I like a lot of what he says." Then they looked at Hillary Rodham Clinton, who offered More of the NeoLib Same that was causing them to suffer, and who worked harder to stop Bernie than she ever did Trump, and went, "Isn't there anybody else?"

Unlike Hillary, Trump blazed through Middle America like Hitler on Crack, holding huge rallies and promising Middle America the Moon. He had no intention of actually doing any of that, and the only reason for the rallies in the first place was to feed his never-satisfied ego, but he knew what buttons to push for working-class voters. Trump made Hillary Rodham Clinton look disconnected, snobbish, and like a total Mean Girl, limiting her General Election campaign to dancing on ELLEN, attending $100K/plate dinners with the oligarchs in New York and Hollywood, talking endlessly about "going toe-to-toe with Putin!" at a point when Putin seemed satisfied with having digested the Crimean Peninsula*, and guesting on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. All Hillary had to fight back was...The Steele Dossier, which was discredited almost as soon as it came out!**

Hillary is why The Democratic Firewall came down and voted for Trump. You can blame "Russian disinformation" all you want, but if Donald Trump had run against Bernie Sanders, with the full support of Democratic Party?*** Trump would have been a stain on the ground of his beloved Florida Roach Motel golf course....

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* I know a lot of you go, "But Hillary was RIGHT!" To which I respond, "Sorry, my crystal ball was out for repairs in 2016тАФand was it worth it for her to start WWIII just to prove she was 'tougher' than Putin was, which seemed a Very Real Possibility the way she kept going on about it?"

** The Steele Dossier turned out to be like The Killian DocumentsтАФwhich almost certainly told the truth about George W. Bush as a chronically AWOL child of privilege unfit for an officer's uniform in the National Guard, but the document itself wasn't truthful, and Dan Rather and CBS News paid the price.

*** Yes, since you ask? I also believe in The Easter Bunny.

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