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otto--how is this "people's mandate" business any different from republicans talking about "americans"?
aren't you just addressing a matter of rhetoric, the word that is used to address a constituency? you can't possibly not see this for what it is...o course the terminology has resonances (that's what makes it rhetoric)---puts you in a position kinda like the 1820s right watching the jacksonian thing happen--that would make the republicans the defenders of a narrow elite and the democrats the populists.
well, maybe it does make some sense that you'd be a bit bent.
the right has run the show in terms of rhetoric for a while now.
now maybe you folks are loosing that too.
funny how these things turn on their heads and back again.
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