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Not Bob · 05-17-2016, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Wasn't me. It was the guy I was quoting who was so prescient so many years ago.

No. This is bullshit. Hillary's appeal is that she will get shit done. Hillary's appeal is that she is practical and actually takes us forward, maybe at a slower pace, but surely forward.

Bernie is pie in the sky. I like what he says, but his grand pronouncements are not feasible. They are not possible. He would not be legislator in chief. He would be President. And I don't know why anyone who has lived in this country over the last 8 years thinks that anything Bernie has espoused that requires legislative action is possible in the current political climate.

This is your funniest comment yet. Who do you think will suffer the most in a meltdown? Who always suffers the most when there is a recession? Poor people. And especially, poor black people. First to get hit. Last to recover.

I assume we're back to letting the entire financial system collapse in '08. If that's the case, I need you to give me a detailed explanation of how reducing the entire financial system to garbage gets us where we need to be. You're talking suffering the world over for millions upon millions of people. I need for you to explain to me how this gets built back up such that the change you think would occur actually occurs.

TM

Or, as our President put it in his commencement speech at Howard:

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And democracy requires compromise, even when you are 100 percent right. This is hard to explain sometimes. You can be completely right, and you still are going to have to engage folks who disagree with you. If you think that the only way forward is to be as uncompromising as possible, you will feel good about yourself, you will enjoy a certain moral purity, but you’re not going to get what you want. And if you don’t get what you want long enough, you will eventually think the whole system is rigged. And that will lead to more cynicism, and less participation, and a downward spiral of more injustice and more anger and more despair. And that's never been the source of our progress. That's how we cheat ourselves of progress.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/0...nscript-222931