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Mike Davis on This Moment

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The Democratic Party Is a Democrat, a Republican or a Libertarian

In sand go we have, we had a couple of districts with big republican majorities. And in order to get money from the democratic central committee, the county committee here, from labor, you had to raise at least 65 thousand dollars. And candidates couldn't do that, so they were ignored. Theyre just hung out to a a dry there's almost no point younot ter running. I mean, democrats abdicated constituencies that they once totally owned because of their failure to grapple with concrete problems of working people in this country.

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