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- Should Google Be Considered a Utility and Regulated As Such?

- Why Are Conservatives Still Supporting Slavery? Bryan Riley, Heritage Foundation

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DonaldKronos 9 years 49 weeks ago
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@ThomHartmann The Democratic Republican Party used to be a single party in every sense but now has the legal status of being two parties, so that it can run two candidates for each opening and scare people into voting for it to keep it out.... which doesn't work. The anti-Republicans calling themselves Democrats lift up the left win to make the right wing lower, and the anti-Democrats calling themselves Republicans lift up the right wing to make the left wing lower, and that's what keeps the evil bird in flight. Meanwhile, independents HAD GIVEN UP.... but Bernie has given them hope.... and yet he is clinging to that evil "Democratic Republican" bird as the only path to the White House.  Can't we help him break away from it? Can't we find a way to organize to collect the signatures necessary for Bernard Sanders to be on the ballot as independent in as many states as possible in the General Election, before more deadlines pass? We already missed Texas, but there are still 49 states have we could collect the signatures for, and do you really think Bernie would say no to USING THOSE SIGNATURES after his supporters go through the work of collecting them? I am certain he would not let his supporters down, after such a show of support!

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