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Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

merrily

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3. Ideas like this resonate with all kinds of people, if they are put clearly and without slant.

Reply to Waiting For Everyman (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 2, 2015, 01:48 PM

Jan 2015

Especially if people from both the nation's largest political parties are not pooh poohing them, or worse. Since Cuomo didn't want seek higher office, I guess there was not much reason to belittle his views once he left office and even less reason now that he is dead.

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Mario Cuomo's 1984 DNC speech, "A Tale of Two Cities." [View all] merrily Jan 2015 OP

Thanks for posting this Merrily. Waiting For Everyman Jan 2015 #1

Ideas like this resonate with all kinds of people, if they are put clearly and without slant. merrily Jan 2015 #3

Kicked and recommended! I remember watching this live. Enthusiast Jan 2015 #2

That is a great speech. Cuomo was a great orator. sabrina 1 Jan 2015 #4

Dems today are not appeasing Republicans. They are doing what they see as being in their own merrily Jan 2015 #5

I agree, however their public stance has been that 'politics requires compromise'. sabrina 1 Jan 2015 #6

Is the term, "plausible deniability?" merrily Jan 2015 #7