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(32,139 posts)on personalities and labels, rather than asking about a single important issue to lend meaning to the word, "liberal."
The only "issue" mentioned here at all is Benghazi, the quintessential MSM shiny object. Anything important - the economy, the surveillance state, the TPP - is deliberately omitted.
This vapid horse race is what our elections have been perverted into, deliberately, by oligarchs who don't want the public to discuss actual issues or even to be aware of them. Politics is presented to the country as a team sport, where you root for your team or your favorite celebrity, and nothing more.
This is why the official Democratic Party survey of voters for 2014 lacked questions about most of the major issues of the day. It's also why we can get through an entire election season on this board with incessant posts by the corporate crew here in defense of their candidates, an infinitesimal percentage of which actually contain any reference to policy.
The corporatists know that when voters are polled on policy, they choose policy on the left. That is why the elections have been deliberately dumbed down to this level, and why we are presented with this incessant, meaningless propaganda of labels rather than actual issues.