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raouldukelives

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37. Every dollar in the hands of deniers, every dollar in the coffers of Wall St.

Reply to EarlG (Original post)

Thu Nov 20, 2014, 08:35 AM

Nov 2014

All equal losses for people with liberal ideals and the desire to salvage a little of what remains today for tomorrow.
Those dollars fund our opponents and those who would don our vestiges to garner our votes only to abandon them. Some do all they can to ensure our enemies have a full war chest and some do all they can to ensure open democracy.

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