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That's not the question. The question is whether both parties are the same. And if your standard for substantive difference is whether a party meets all of your policy goals that are impossible for structural and political reasons, then you have a underdeveloped understanding of politics.

The 2000 election shows that sometimes deluded narcissistic dicks act as spoilers in a first past the post presidential system, yes. Anyone liberal who votes for a third party should get punched in the butt. Even in a deep blue state, just on principle.

Then you are poorly educated and/or lack analytical skills.

To be fair, the president and the senate control who goes on the bench. You can't really gerrymander those electorates.

"Nationalize Hobby Lobby."

I dunno, the Internet tells me both parties are the same, because Barack Obama won't use his Green Lantern ring hard enough to fight for my favorite pet bourgeois freedom.

Then we should change the constitution and then seize them all. What a ridiculous entitlement, and what a barbaric freedom to glorify. Good for you.

"It's a lot better than the rest of the country that kept making tigers more available. "

All tigers should be legal. It is my constitutional right to own a tiger. Some of us responsible tiger owners love to go off on our property and let our tigers chase deer and climb trees as we crush a few beers with our buddies and watch them admiringly. Seeing those steely muscles ripple under that stripes…

Sure there is. It's called expressing one's displeasure. By doing so, you may change people's opinions.

Well, nobody's calling for the Government to ban it, so you can shit your pants and cry on the internet whenever someone criticizes you about this to your heart's content, but all your talk about "rights" in this instance is irrelevant because nobody is inducing the state to stop this activity.

I think he's just trying to express what he wants to do to his gun.

"No watching Mommy's sex tape before dinner; you'll ruin your appetite."

I guess you didn't read my second sentence.

A new convention would devolve into a shitshow pretty quickly, but I do agree that huge portion so the document do not fit anymore. We should move to become a Westminster-style parliament minus the House of Lords. There are way too many veto points. Just roll up the Exec into the legislature like the Brits; having a…

I am 100% OK with the army "knocking" on doors to seize every gun in the United States. And if the Constitution isn't cool with that approach, well, I think the Constitution is kind if overrated anyway.

If you want a snapshot of what she'll be facing in 2016, read the New Republic profile on Scott Walker that just came out on the website. Not only does it explain how a goon got elected with the help of oafish talk radio, but it pretty cogently explains how Democrats will have to learn how to win control of the…

As long as regular ol' handguns are legal, it will be bad. And I'm not just talking about reducing incidents of psychos murdering cherubic kids; the larger death toll comes from insane numbers of firearm related murders in inner cities like Chicago. But many people figure it's mostly the scum taking each other out, so…