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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread just represents yet another attempt by Trump supporters to try and marginalize half of the country.

Shameful.[/quote]

I am the OP and am a liberal and have been one for decades - and certainly did not vote for Trump.  I supported Sanders in the primaries.

More than the presidential election, I am concerned with what has been happening in state legislatures since 2008 when I think we had 30 Democratic governors.

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The issue is that the Republicans have put together a strong machine and have managed to get megadonors and folks like Koch and ALEC and others focusing on winning governorships and state legislatures, pumping billions into those races because they want to push policy that favors corporate oligarchy from the bottom up.  And the results are glaring and scandalous, with many instances of state officials signing their names to legislation and policy that was literally written in a corporate boardroom with zero citizen input.  Trump's appointee to head the EPA was exposed in such behavior from when he was in state office.  Democrats on the other hand have the numbers and the mission and could really rally and crush if they supported more folks like Sanders and Warren, but sadly they are disorganized and unfocused and largely resting on laurels, denial and the old way of doing things.[/quote]

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