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2016 Postmortem

NRQ891

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7. there's also a hazard to continously throwing around those words

Reply to Orsino (Reply #6)

Mon Dec 5, 2016, 01:40 PM

Dec 2016

in 1950, having Senator Joe McCarthy call you a 'Communist', a 'communist sympathizer', a 'fellow traveler', or 'soft on communism', meant that your career was over

by 1954, having him call you that meant that you disagreed with anything he ever said or did, ever. Those words were considered 'Bully Boilerplate'

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If you knowingly vote for someone who is a racist, sexist, and xenophobic, that means [View all] still_one Dec 2016 OP

Most of the trump voters don't have a problem with those views liberal N proud Dec 2016 #1

Yep mcar Dec 2016 #2

What if I vote for someone who is opposed to marriage equality? QC Dec 2016 #3

First of all who was that person running against? Yes, sometimes you have to still_one Dec 2016 #5

Nailed it... SidDithers Dec 2016 #4

Or that for you, other factors outweighed those things. Orsino Dec 2016 #6

there's also a hazard to continously throwing around those words NRQ891 Dec 2016 #7