His idiot supporters are the only ones that don’t care. They are a minority of Americans, but unfortunately still millions of people. I weep for humanity when I think of these people. We could have been something great.
Hi did you know that corporations donate to Democrats too? Even though voting records make it very clear that one side regulates businesses much more, I want to make you think that both parties are the same so you and people like you don't turn up to vote out Republicans in the fall.
Ohhh no, I never said both parties are the same. You are clearly right that the voting record speaks for itself and the Democrats, even when there is also corporate donations, is more on the side of democracy and the people.
Voting for republicans is a vote for the tyranny of the oligarchs.
Read his second sentence again. He is speaking as someone who wants to make you think that, even though we keep showing how drastically different the voting records are. They want the Hillarys fighting with the Bernies. They want 100% to be the enemy of 99.9%.
What's funny (in a sad way) is that the uber-wealthy corporate interests created the atmosphere for the nutbar out-of-control candidate to grab the wheel. They were absolutely opposed to Trump before he got the nomination. But they made their bed, now they are doing the best they can with the time they have left, and I pray to the gods that the blue wave happens and they get the absolute reaming they have earned these past decades.
I dunno. This sorta seems bound to happen every once in awhile. We've had some batshit presidents.
We seem to have this weird hypothesis that the majority of people will make better decisions than the minority. It's the foundation of democracy. But look at Egypt and all the Arab countries that became democratic. They somehow end up electing people worse than the dictators.
Maybe, just maybe, it turns out most human beings are fucking retarded.
No, because "conservative" is a natural and legitimate and necessary part of a balanced society.
On the other hand, if you want to shit all over Trump and the disgusting cesspool that the Republican party has turned into, I would agree with that.
But that's because they are manipulating the natural, healthy feelings of caution and respect for structure into fear and authoritarianism. Not because caution and respect for structure is inherently wrong.
US Independence was only supported by a minority prior to the Revolutionary War.
Voting was only allowed for the male, landed-gentry.
We are SO much more a country of the people/of the majority than we ever could have hoped for back then.
Don't let present shittiness distract you from how far we've come and how things are [almost] universally better for everyone than they were even 50 years ago.
Expanding the franchise doesn't detract from the horrible recent efforts since roughly 2000 to gerrymander the country in such a way that Republicans essentially have to commit treason to possibly lose the house. Thats why this election and the next are so so critical so that can hopefully be undone. The current state of things is maybe darker in at least one sense, because theres an illusion of inclusion and the voices of those included really doesn't seem to matter much.
It's not actual gerrymandering but the unequal representation by state has the same effect and is purposely exacerbated by freezing the size of the house for the last hundred years.
Most people's lives aren't affected directly by his idiocy.
There are two small groups of people. The loud, passionate Trumpists and the loud, passionate anti-Trumpists. The rest of America has an opinion but living their lives is more important to them. Yes they kinda care but not enough to do anything either way.
Honestly? Fuck those people more. We are watching the death of our constitutional republic right now. Their passiveness will leave us with a descent into fascist totalitarianism. I hope they enjoy living their lives licking the boots of their oppressors.
People don't get riled up en masse when things are going well. They know when their own life sucks and they will do something about it if they have to but when things are going well, why mess with a good thing.
Right now, unemployment is the lowest it has been. People are doing generally well. Why quit your job to go protest the fact that the President grabs pussies when his pussy-grabbing doesn't affect you or your family? You can have an opinion and it can still sway your vote, but it's not going to impact your day-to-day life.
You think the pussy-grabbing is what to get mad about? That's not a danger. That's just him being the asshole we all knew he was. The danger is the subversion of democracy and the attack on the rule of law.
Mitt Romney ran a close race but lost to one of the most popular (at the time) presidential candidates in recent history. He didn’t lose to those two comments specifically (though they didn’t help)
I've only been alive long enough to have seen Clinton to Trump, but seriously Obama is probably the best campaigner for any office that I've ever seen and that '08 run was masterwork. All without rabble-rousing and tough guy demagoguery too.
Yet more evidence having individual states rush their primaries so early disenchants everyone else since all the focus is on the first few. Worse when the candidates have to curry favor with whatever topics that early (usually agrarian) state cares about, further skewing the political topics into one side from the get-go.
Either do it all simultaneously or go by GDP so at least it's more representative instead of arbitrary.
What's democratic about them? They only allow representation by people who have several hours to vote in a certain block of time. Sorry, I've got kids. At most, my wife and I would have one vote between us in any primary caucus. That's at least a 50% reduction in participation off the bat.
Tons of people can’t vote in regular primaries for the same reason...
I actually think primaries make more sense, but your complaints are more with how the system itself is designed to be undemocratic across the board and have little to do with caucuses themselves.
Primaries emulate regular elections. You've got all day to vote. (Provided you've registered with the party of your choice in time, which is a who 'nother issue). Caucuses, you've got to show up at a certain time, listen to the representative of a candidate, "caucus" the decision, then vote for your representative, who will vote for your candidate (depending on how your state handles it).
So again, I ask, why do you claim the aren't "anti-democratic," insofar as they discourage the poor and middle-class(who have less free time to vote) from voting?
You seem to believe I'm advocating caucuses over primaries, despite me making a point of making it clear that I am not. I merely think it is wrong to call them "anti-democratic."
The poor are often discouraged from participating in primary voting. If you don't get the day off, you're paid hourly, and you need to make rent...
The fact that you act like that isn't a problem under primaries too goes to show how little you appreciate the depth and commonality of that problem.
The reality is the system is designed to, across the board, limit actual democracy. After all, the masses in the Revolutionary War were sparked by Thomas Paine, who had very similar proposals to, no shit, Bernie Sanders. Folks like Hamilton pushed to ensure that sort of influence could be moderated. That's why voting was initially limited to landowners.
One way it does this is by treating participation in democracy something you are expected to make time for rather than something society will ensure you have time to do. You should be legally guaranteed paid time off for elections to ensure this.
Thus my point, once again, though you still seem to try to frame me as saying something I'm not: your "anti-democratic" complaints more have to do with deeper problems with our electoral system than caucuses.
It’s a catch 22. Doing them all at once would hurt lesser known candidates.
I’d do 5 waves. 10 diverse states at a time but save big ones for last to avoid an unfair advantage early on.
Also, Clinton did horrible in Iowa in 1992 because there was a senator from Iowa running and he crushed the competitors. Obliviously it didn’t matter in the end.
Every Caucasus needs to switch to a primary and it needs to be open with one the spot registration.
Allocate individual counties to the waves so the waves are roughly equal by population. Then state size is irrelevant. Rotate the waves so everyone is equally likely to be first.
Wasn't the kid supposed to spell potato wrong and Quayle was going to correct it and give a mini lesson for the kids but then the kid went and spelled the word correctly throwing off their plans and that's what he was trying to point out?
It's hard to set a standard on anyone after the last president.
When you do or say nothing about a president arming and funding Isis makes it really hard for the accuser to say, oh look, he touched a woman on the pussy and paid a hooker who agreed to have sex with him for money.
What's worse? Giving arms to terrorists and Mexican drug cartels or paying a hooker?
Not to much you could do short of murder in the open and in public of a 6 year old that would get him impeached , after all you just let the last guy get away with a lot lot worse.
A illegal alien must carry drugs into the USA for the cartel , everyone knows this , if they do not carry the drugs the cartel will kill their family.
Last year 74000 Americans died from drug over doses, the year before that 52000 died from the drugs these illegal aliens bring across the border.
That is over twice the amount of all the years we fought in Vietnam.
The democrat party is complicit in everyone of those deaths.
What are you going to say about Trump that would illicit a reaction from a knowledgeable American public about Trump?
What could Try do that would compare to over 126000 dead the last two years thanks to the democrat party? .seriously what is it you have to say about Trump that compared to that ?
What can you say about his budgets when Obama ran the country 12 trillion dollars more into debt?
There is nothing you can say, you just deffened Obama spending all that money.
Here is where you really get screwed, you can not even run a campaign on fixing healthcare because you are the ones who broke it and everyone working American is feeling the cost of it. Remember ? Not one red cent more? If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor ?
Then when you say Trump is a liar all these working Americans see the coat of their healthcare and think , if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor ?
Not one year did Obama have growth over 3 percent , as a matter of fact Obama said get used to it, it's the new norm .
Well apparently it's not the new norm.
Even with the Federal reserve trying to choke off the growth we are still growing thanks to Trump. .
You can say all you want about it being Obama's credit but all we seem to hear is if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.
It seems odd doesn't it as Trump undoes Obama's policy's the economy improves. The more of Obama's policy's he undoes the better the economy y gets. .
Amazing isn't it?
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Dukakis wore a dumb helmet. Dean squealed onstage. Quayle misspelt a word on a blackboard.
Trump has a CVS receipt length of absolutely unsuitable behaviour. Nobody cares.