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Thursday, 21 February 2013

an open letter to my Democrat friends

Posted on 07:47 by Unknown
Dear liberal Dems,

My friends! I'm cool with you arguing that liberalism has an inexorable demographic advantage that, coupled with conservatism's seemingly permanent lunacy, will guarantee you electoral victory and thus control of policy for decades to come. I can also tolerate, I guess, your learned helplessness, which compels you to play a defensive game where you concede 90% of what conservatives want before you even start arguing, and through which you excuse all kinds of failure and unhappy outcomes. What I dearly wish is that you would stop arguing both at the same fucking time.

All my best to Tish and the kids,

Freddie
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