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    Default Are Centrists in the Thrall of Right-Wing Propaganda?

    More surprising, at least to me, has been the self-destructive behavior of Democratic centrists — a term I prefer to “moderates,” because it’s hard to see what’s moderate about demanding that Biden abandon highly popular policies like taxing corporations and reducing drug prices. At this point it seems all too possible that a handful of recalcitrant Democrats will blow up the whole Biden agenda — and yes, it’s the centrists who are throwing a tantrum, while the party’s progressives are acting like adults.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/23/o...ats-biden.html

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    "I also sometimes hear even centrists giving Reagan’s tax cuts credit for turning the U.S. economy around. The truth is that most Americans did worse in the decades after the Reagan tax cuts than in the corresponding previous period; the post-Reagan boom, such as it was, was limited to a small number of wealthy people.

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    It's more like the Democrat's Left are acting like Marxists and the few Democrat Centrists and Republicans are trying to stop them...

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    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    It's more like the Democrat's Left are acting like Marxists and the few Democrat Centrists and Republicans are trying to stop them...
    You are poorly informed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    It's more like the Democrat's Left are acting like Marxists and the few Democrat Centrists and Republicans are trying to stop them...
    ACTING ???

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    "So what’s motivating the sabotage squad? Part of the answer, I’d argue, is that they have internalized decades of right-wing economic propaganda, that their gut reaction to any proposal to improve Americans’ lives is that it must be unworkable and unaffordable."

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    whats a Democratic centrist? Someone not an insane Prog? I guess they exist

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    whats a Democratic centrist? Someone not an insane Prog? I guess they exist
    What is a Republican centrist? Someone slightly to the left of Adolph Hitler?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    What is a Republican centrist? Someone slightly to the left of Adolph Hitler?
    me. Im an old Blue Dog Dem who was happily thrown out of the Dems
    we are populists. America first policies

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumpy View Post
    ACTING ???
    Acting-- They claim they're Socialists. It's a matter of semantics...

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    me. Im an old Blue Dog Dem who was happily thrown out of the Dems
    we are populists. America first policies
    You are a fascist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Someone slightly to the left of Adolph Hitler?
    That would be Rachida Taleb...

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    You are a fascist.
    you are incapable of any level of thought, much less able to discuss it
    I don't know how you were diverted / You were perverted too
    I don't know how you were inverted / No one alerted you

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    Quote Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
    That would be Rachida Taleb...
    yes, clearly she is a nazi

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    you are incapable of any level of thought, much less able to discuss it
    I am infinitely smarter than you. You bore me.

    You are not capable of thought beyond the junior high school level.

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