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Looking back at TFP posts in 2006, most of us lefties were perfectly aware of just how bad the Patriot Act was and were against it's renewal. We all groaned when so many Democrats cowardly crossed the isle and signed away our liberties. It's possible that was why the Democrats only got the 51/49 majority instead of a 60/40 split.
If someone with balls had gone on record and said, "We can't win against enemies of freedom by becoming enemies of freedom" or some other clever lines over and over and over, using the GOP strategy of "repeat until it's true", there was a good chance giving the unheard majority a champion could have had a real shot at stopping the loss of liberties juggernaut. This isn't hindsight, either, as we were all complaining about this at the time.
When I read your and DCs posts, they strike me as, with all due respect, defeatist. Defeatist rhetoric infected the Democratic party back in 2001, and it's long since been time to purge it.
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