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Hey Hal - are you saying

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 09:57:00 +0000

Hey Hal - are you saying Tomasky is wrong in this piece with his "Sanders is a punish-the-malefactors type, and Clinton is a fix-the-problem type " framing, or that "fix the problem" is a worse focus than punish the offenders???

Jesus noted, "the poor will be with us always", but so will the rich assholes - the French tried wiping them out in 1789, and just promoted a new class of rich assholes in their place. Pol Pot tried it in 1975, killing any "intellectual" identified by just wearing glasses, and thus destroyed the country for several generations. So I don't much see a way around it except to find ways to work with the rich assholes, not expect they can be circumvented.

Yes. One group of voters

moat — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 01:03:38 +0000

In reply to The responsibility for Trump

Yes. One group of voters against another. All responsible for their choices.

Blacks in California were

rmrd0000 — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:21:08 +0000

In reply to I'm not sure what you mean by

Blacks in California were blamed for Prop8. 20% of Blacks in Ohio voted for GW because Bush was going to fight Gay marriage.

Prop 8

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2009/01/prop-8-and-blaming-the-blacks/6548/

The elephant in the room on Trump is race.

I'm not sure what you mean by

barefooted — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:08:22 +0000

In reply to When black voters cast

I'm not sure what you mean by "homophobic" votes. I'm guessing the elephant in the room is white?

When black voters cast

rmrd0000 — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:00:25 +0000

In reply to The responsibility for Trump

When black voters cast homophobic votes, there was an attempt to correct things. Why are we avoiding the elephant in the room when it comes to Trump voters?

The responsibility for Trump

barefooted — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 22:35:20 +0000

In reply to Journalist, heal thyself

The responsibility for Trump being elected President Trump lies with those who voted for him. There are myriad and debatable reasons why voters made their choice and how that choice was variously persuaded, but that it was indeed made is indisputable. The only power we have now, as then, is in the voting booth. Blaming the outcome on any number of factors may help to ease the pain, but the end result remains the same.

The most frightening line in

rmrd0000 — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:45:19 +0000

In reply to Journalist, heal thyself

The most frightening line in the book

Conservatives, he (Frum) writes later, will never abandon conservatism. If the day comes when they conclude that their side can’t win elections democratically, “they will reject democracy.” Trumpocracy warns that the day of reckoning is upon us—that the liberal democracy that is our heritage “imposes limits and requires compromises,” and that Trumpism is its mortal enemy