On issue after issue, the ...

On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time - show that most Americans share what one could call core liberal or progressive values: investment in health care and education over tax cuts; fair trade over free trade; corporate accountability over deregulation; environmental protection over laissez-faire policies; defending Social Security and Medicare over privatizing them; raising the minimum wage over eliminating it. The country prefers progressive alternatives to the failed policies of the conservative right.
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We're seeing people in the streets because this last week [since November 8, 2016] was a week of grief and mourning and despair for many.
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It's now time to organize and move forward. It's time for deep thinking, reformation of the Democratic Party.
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