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jalan48

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16. The problem is that Americans have been conditioned by Republicans and big corporations to react negatively.

Reply to Oopsie Daisy (Reply #13)

Wed Jan 15, 2025, 04:57 PM

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They will call anything socialism to influence the voters. In the 80's, Reagan and the Republicans made "liberal" a bad word and too many Democrats took the bait and ran from it. We need to focus on the policy and not the label.

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