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The app failed in Iowa so let's try something new in Nevada

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I want to float a theory about Bernie, Chris Mathews and Russiagate.

Chris Mathews' conflating democratic socialism with communism under a dictator demonstrates a rabid hatred of policies that help average Americans. It also demonstrates that he is an idiot, but that is beside the point. Let's assume for second that his radical pants pooping hysteria against a strong public safety net, healthcare and higher education is a fear shared by many of the 1% and their surrogates.

Chris Matthews Compares Bernie to Communist Dictators. Time to Fire Him

If you didn't watch the post-debate analysis last night on MsNBC (and why would you?) you missed gas-bag Chris Matthews comparing the Movement sparked by Bernie Sanders as the equivalent of the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, or the Khmer Rouge, just waiting for our opportunity to execute him in Central Park. Really, he went there.

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“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now — and we're going to try our hands at it.” ~ Sinclair Lewis

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The New Adam ~ Sandor Bortnyik, 1924

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