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Demit

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39. I'm assuming everyone who develops a policy does it based on perceptions & experiences.

Fri Jan 13, 2017, 02:29 PM

Jan 2017

Like Betsy DeVos, whose family has been using its wealth & influence to get rid of public education & instead divert taxpayer dollars into privatized education. If she's confirmed as Sec'y of Education, she'll be responsible for education policy and she'll have the power to implement nationwide what she believes in. Then look out, public education.

So I'm not singling out Corey Booker. He has a lot of company.

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People on the alt left seem much more concerned about how pure booker is [View all] La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2017 OP

Purity does not concern me. HassleCat Jan 2017 #1

He's getting attention because he is testifying against his colleagues La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2017 #3

Agree! We need lots more Booker type resistance... RiverStone Jan 2017 #16

+10,000. Media slant: breaking precedent, Hortensis Jan 2017 #65

I'm not sure what the alt left is? Stellar Jan 2017 #2

People who criticized obama non stop and voted La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2017 #4

Okay, learn something every day. Thanks. nt Stellar Jan 2017 #5

It's very commonly used on twitter La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2017 #6

Okay. I don't do Twitter but thanks anyway. Stellar Jan 2017 #8

Yep. 100% spot on! eom BlueCaliDem Jan 2017 #7

Nailed it! I'm stealing this because I know you well enough, LOL. bettyellen Jan 2017 #55

It's fictitious. Like the "librul media" the right came up with. But now it's people that should brewens Jan 2017 #50

I've kind of had it up to here with... SaschaHM Jan 2017 #9

Yup La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2017 #10

Some 14 Dems voted against the amendment BainsBane Jan 2017 #11

Because we are preparing to run a 85 year old La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2017 #15

I agree. brer cat Jan 2017 #24

I'm concerned about his support for charter schools. Demit Jan 2017 #12

Do you now, or have you ever had, marybourg Jan 2017 #30

No. But I don't think he limits his support for charter schools to Newark. Demit Jan 2017 #32

No. But his perceptions, marybourg Jan 2017 #33

I'm assuming everyone who develops a policy does it based on perceptions & experiences. Demit Jan 2017 #39

Calling people more liberal than you alt left? Fearless Jan 2017 #13

No, calling people who only know how to destroy La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2017 #14

The crowd who torpedoed Hubert Humphrey Ellen Forradalom Jan 2017 #25

Took the words out of my mouth. nycbos Jan 2017 #26

I have one of these types in my family Ellen Forradalom Jan 2017 #28

I used to be like that. nycbos Jan 2017 #29

Lily white? Fearless Jan 2017 #37

A longstanding expression Ellen Forradalom Jan 2017 #44

A long-standing homophobic slur. Fearless Jan 2017 #45

No, it's not Chitown Kev Jan 2017 #46

I "get that from" being gay myself. Fearless Jan 2017 #47

Oh, I'm gay as well...as the day is long Chitown Kev Jan 2017 #48

You're not the only gay in this village La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2017 #59

Lily white is a long standing term La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2017 #58

The only one on the left building coalitions is Sanders Fearless Jan 2017 #34

Sanders is not the only one building movement La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2017 #36

And none of those are politicians in the Democratic party Fearless Jan 2017 #38

The alt left exists and is a destructive force La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2017 #40

You're claiming an unquantifiable number of people Fearless Jan 2017 #42

You are wrong about the phrase, it does not mean all sanders primary voters La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2017 #43

More liberal? Eliot Rosewater Jan 2017 #22

66 million people voted for Clinton Fearless Jan 2017 #35

alt-left???? Really? bowens43 Jan 2017 #17

You haven't heard the term? And yes, they do disgust me La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2017 #18

I am still trying to figure out how many of them were outright republican plants Eliot Rosewater Jan 2017 #23

Indeed. nycbos Jan 2017 #27

cory can be great for fightign sessions DonCoquixote Jan 2017 #60

What is disgusting Coolest Ranger Jan 2017 #20

Agreed La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2017 #41

Whenever Coolest Ranger Jan 2017 #19

Same here. BlueMTexpat Jan 2017 #21

Nailed it. Maven Jan 2017 #31

This. Nt Quayblue Jan 2017 #49

It's pretty messed up.... JHan Jan 2017 #51

Considering what 'Alt-right' means... FiveGoodMen Jan 2017 #52

Holy carp wryter2000 Jan 2017 #53

Using the term Alt Left creates a false equivalency JDC Jan 2017 #54

And yet another ad hominem Uponthegears Jan 2017 #56

The way you have articulated your criticism is not at all La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2017 #57

I was hoping not Uponthegears Jan 2017 #61

I def don't. Saying I'm disappointed in XYZ dem La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2017 #62

Yesterday I saw an OP that was pretty much just a headline about Booker being bad. betsuni Jan 2017 #63

Neostupid, is a fab term La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2017 #64

"neo-stupid"... that wins. JHan Jan 2017 #66

The problem is the welfare chauvinist alt-left have SO POISONED the discussion forjusticethunders Jan 2017 #67