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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

Liberals didn't elect Trump, fascist, though. Does not compute.

Liberals also got the Civil rights Act of 1964 passed in Congress, despite MLK's prior Birmingham letter.

To equate American Democratic liberalism of today to German parties of the 1930s... Yeesh.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Liberals also got the Civil rights Act of 1964 passed in Congress, despite MLK’s prior Birmingham letter.

ahahaha liberals HATED MLK, he is only considered a popularly liked relatively uncontroversial political figure because leftists beat down the doors of liberals who would have rather plugged their ears and let the status quo continue indefinitely while telling black men football isn't the right place to ask for empathy for black lives as that is political and sports aren't....

Imagine if Bernie Sanders was black, even more radical and you lived during a time that being centrist meant at a minimum being pretty damn racist...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

And yet.

... Wait for it...

Liberals actually got laws passed.

Now tell me — just for contrast — what did the conservatives of the time do when those same "leftists" beat down their doors...? That's right: laughed at them if they didn't lynch them.

Welcome to your first lesson in Pyrrhic Victories vs. Pragmatic Progress.

(And by the way, since you raised Bernie Sanders... With whom does he caucus with >90% of the time? And which ticket did he run as President under... Twice?)