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This'll help.

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 07:07:14 +0000

In reply to Hmm. I'll keep the raspberry

This'll help.

Hmm. I'll keep the raspberry

barefooted — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 05:51:35 +0000

In reply to ok, mea culpa - could have

Hmm. I'll keep the raspberry response in mind.

ok, mea culpa - could have

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 05:34:26 +0000

In reply to ***raspberries****

ok, mea culpa - could have been said less abrasively.

*raspberries**

trkingmomoe — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 01:24:48 +0000

In reply to No, Bernie got over 700,000

***raspberries****

No, Bernie got over 700,000

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 10:39:54 +0000

In reply to Thanks Richard.

No, Bernie got over 700,000 individual donations from maybe 200,000 donors. Apparently Bernie fans think it's better to keep going back to the atm rather than figure out once what you're going to give and giving it. $27 buck contributions is part of his marketing just like weekly Gecko insurance for the poorer make their brand. Whatever cranks your tractor.

Thanks Richard.

trkingmomoe — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 09:29:20 +0000

In reply to Oh you deserve response Monoe

Thanks Richard.

Sanders has drawn 63,000 people to his rallies in Iowa all total. I like that kind of magical thinking and unicorns that seems to work. That is far more then what Obama did. I think Bernie shut down Iowa State U. this week end.

He also raised 20 million dollars in the month of January from over 700,000 small donors.

We get to watch history in the making. Nothing like walking on the wild side. I still have my old love beads.They are made from seeds. So this old hippy chick just might get to wear them tonight. If you get time, go to my FB page and scroll down through my postings. There is some very good articles on what has been happening in Iowa.

Oh you deserve response Monoe

Richard Day — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 20:19:41 +0000

In reply to In the last election in

Oh you deserve response Monoe!

WELL DONE!

You have a connection with kids. Some of us lose that connection.

There is something happening here, and the kids are not quite sure what that

is!

But neither are we, the seniors!

I appreciate your posting and

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 12:42:15 +0000

In reply to In the last election in

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Nonsense. You have zero grasp

ocean-kat — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 03:22:10 +0000

In reply to Your logic has a bit of egg

Nonsense. You have zero grasp of history or politics.

The change that has happened in the last 300 years is incredible, unprecedented in human history. Just looking at America the amount of power that has been wrestled from the plutocrats and the increase in the power and freedom of the proletariat is amazing even though in any individual's lifetime the pace of change may have seemed glacially slow.

In 1776 only white male landowners could vote, about 6% of the population. It took a hundred and fifty years for women to get the right to vote, more when we consider that women were fighting for state and town voting rights before there was a United States of America. It still took another 50 years for women to just get the right to say no when their husband wanted sex. While women had the right to leave their husband all they had the right to leave with was the clothes on their back. She didn't even have a legal right to the jewelry she brought into the marriage nor to the children she birthed. Married women couldn't own land in their own name. almost her only option was to return to her parents since she didn't have the right to seek employment except as a school teacher, secretary, nurse.

It took 100 years to end slavery, again more since the struggle for emancipation preceded the USA. It took another 100 years for civil rights for blacks and other minorities to begin to become a reality.

It took a hundred years of fighting, often brutal and violent, for workers to get negotiating power and workers rights.

Damn it Peter, we've been fighting for decades and decades and decades just to get parents to stop beating their kids. And making remarkedly good progress on this issue. The issues are myriad. None of this is easy. And its not democracy or the government that's at fault.

Slow as its been the change has been immense and it's democracy that fueled that change.The problem is not that the vote lacks power. It's that people haven't been using that power to make the changes that I, and likely you, would like to see. Politicians respond to people who vote. If young people or older people want to see change they have no choice but to vote for it. When they begin to pay attention and vote for the change they desire then they will get it.

I posted it before and I'll probably post it again and again. Because I think it's a good line that encapsulizes the reality and the problem. Every generation a small group of liberals drag the people, kicking and screaming, into the future. Their children take those changes for granted and wouldn't change back if they could, but give no credit to the liberals that made it possible. They in their turn, will have to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into the future.

When enough people wake up and vote, we'll see changes. You're either part of the problem or part of the solution. From my pov Peter, you are part of the problem.

In the last election in

trkingmomoe — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 03:00:04 +0000

In reply to A Message From a Millennial

In the last election in Florida, the voters under 30 cast more votes then any other age group. In 2012 the under 30 crowd cast the same percentage of votes as the over 60 group. (17% each) I have no links because it was discussed on local political radio shows.

Proceed daggsters. I usually don't get this much response.