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docsavage
Trad climber
Albuquerque, NM
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 12, 2017 - 10:05pm PT
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like a little baby bitch boy ...
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 12, 2017 - 11:01pm PT
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And so it begins....
First one down.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Dec 13, 2017 - 06:52am PT
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Moore said that we "want to keep his values out of Washington.". I agree.
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unlocked gait
Gym climber
the range
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Dec 13, 2017 - 06:59am PT
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regarding this attempted departure from progress by the white collar trash like moore and trump:
La puerca mas flaca es la primera que rompe el chiquero.
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Happy Cowboy
Social climber
Boz MT
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Dec 13, 2017 - 08:38am PT
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Just heard a nice rendition of the holiday favorite "Angels we have heard on high"
Felt so apropriate
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Dec 13, 2017 - 08:39am PT
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Finally, some sanity in our country.
But did you read who voted for Moore--sad, sad, sad.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Dec 14, 2017 - 12:49pm PT
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He's refusing to concede. Good greif.
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L
climber
Just bearly here
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Dec 14, 2017 - 12:58pm PT
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Time to call in the Sheriffs....
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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Dec 14, 2017 - 03:47pm PT
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Could be a watershed moment. Let's hope so.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Dec 14, 2017 - 06:15pm PT
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That Moore didn't win is itself a basic relief. But I don't find a lot to celebrate in the overall story.
Among voters, almost 78% of white women with no college degree voted for Moore! One can hope that it is as simple as the abortion issue being more important for them than the repugnance of this candidate.
If you look at this result alone, it speaks volumes to the long term strategic agenda of the Republican party to reduce education and swell the ranks of their constituents in a self-fulfilling cycle:
 privatize K-12 education as much as possible
make universities pay taxes on funds they receive, while other non-profits (e.g. churches and politician family foundations) don't
tax graduate students to the extent that it risks completion of currently funded research projects and discourages students from pursuing higher degrees
defund Planned Parenthood
I heard Paul Ryan today say the next step, after tax reform, is "People." He was actively encouraging people to have more babies (which will create more workers to pay for the long retirement of baby-boomers, and which will cause more spending to stimulate the economy). This was while also talking about reducing government entitlements (healthcare, retirement benefits, etc.
Suppress voting among communities not likely to vote Republican
How can we have meaningful advancement of our society when a significant chunk is so stuck on a few issues or their party identity that they'll vote for a pedophile? You can't change people like that.
The main hope emerging here is that the solution is to increase voter turn-out, and get more people to care about societal policy issues and the role we each have to play in shaping the world we want. It's easy to ignore politics when things are going well, just letting it be on auto-pilot. But it's amazing how quickly we can lose hard-fought rights, things we have taken for granted for a generation or two, when people stop paying attention.
The fight for education seems more abstract and theoretical, but the deconstruction of our education system happening now is going to have massive ramifications for our country a generation from now. How much can a shift from Repub back to Dem make in this overall situation? Hard to say. As I see it, the short-sighted b.s. policies from this year along are going to come home to roost when Dems are back in office, and Dems will get blamed for it all, which will bring the Repubs right back to do the same things that screw the working poor of our nation.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Dec 14, 2017 - 06:31pm PT
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Well, in this one I feel more comfortable unloading on Republicans than I do in the policy thread, where I try harder to stick to issues without tying them so closely to one party or another.
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