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Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

Warpy

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1. Even as their camps were being brutally crushed by militarized police

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Wed Jun 10, 2015, 10:33 PM

Jun 2015

I pronounced them a great success. They'd done in a few short weeks what we on the left had been trying to do for 40 years: educate the largest number of people possible in what had been happening to them and who was responsible.

They also educated us pretty thoroughly on the dangers of a militarized police system.

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