Asylum seekers can also present themselves at a port of entry to legally ask for asylum.

We’re doing stuff now that if it keeps up, the US will go down in history along with such wonderful luminaries like the Nazi party, Pol Pot, and the former Soviet Union.

It’s their offensive to write Obama out of American history completely. I commented to a friend that Trump and the Republicans won’t stop until they get enough people to believe that Obama was illegally President, and therefore everything he did was ripe to be changed by them.

A ‘blackout party’? He just might get one.

It’s less ‘playing the refs’ and more wanting to normalize the use of federal governmental power against those people, businesses, and agencies that they don’t like, or that don’t ally themselves with the Republican party.

Dehumanizing a innocent group is a BAD thing.

Why not just admit that you have no problem saying that certain members of the human race lose their humanity once they do something you disagree with. No one is arguing that the gang members aren’t gang members, but to go out of the way to argue that they aren’t human is a literal slippery slope you don’t want to go…

They are funded by people with very deep pockets and the power to bend lawmakers ears more than the majority of citizens can.

What worries me is that I happen to work for a hospital that has ‘weapons free zone’ plastered on every external door. But, I have heard some people start to argue that it ‘infringes on their rights’ for my employer to do that, and I dread the day that someone chooses to sue and win the right to pack heat on the…

I mean what do you say at this point?

Ahh, I see. That should have gone to chemiclord, not you.

The Republican party then thanks you for staying home and helping them to become even more entrenched.

You do realize that taking that way of thinking, you are playing right into the right wings hands? They want the Democrats to fight one another, simply due to the fact that it ends up guaranteeing they’ll win.

Hey, I’m sure that once the Republicans gain enough seats in federal and state houses to call a Constitutional Convention that the time will be ripe for the Progressives to finally shout out, “See?”

Primary the Dems that voted in ways you don’t like. But don’t pretend a Republican is the better option.

The thing is, there are quite a few Democrats serving who say they’re ‘centrist’, but it’s certainly not true. Here in VA, Warner seems to be wedded to the big money rather closely, and Kaine seems to have forgotten his earlier bona fides of helping people to try and get cozier with the big money.

More people just sat home instead of voting. I would argue if anything, that’s on the voters. I don’t give a shit if you may not like a nominee, if you want to guarantee that your party (or at least the party that you believe represents you) will win, then you have to get your ass up and actively vote.

From everything I’ve read prior to your comments, it seems this is the ‘death to centrists’ thread. A lot of people seem to think that centrists are actively voting against Democratic nominees (which is probably furthest from the truth, but some people would rather not believe it).

I’d argue that it’s more due to voter apathy and aggressive movements by the right to remove the ability for certain groups of people to vote for being to blame for those.

I’ve been throwing my money at individual progressive candidates. Fuck this noise of fueling southern democrats and centrists - we don’t need their kind right now. At fucking all.