He’s also not actually a socialist.

And Obama was easily reelected and is leaving office with a stratospheric approval rating.

“Nobody cares about the socialist label”???? These people have been “slandering” Obama with the “socialist label” for years.

That article is complete bullshit from an author who apparently learned not a damn thing about 2016.

Nobody cares about the socialist label. This isn’t the 1950's.

Who really knows, his socialist leanings could have cost him just as many votes as his appeal to the working class. At the very least he would’ve gotten people fired up to actually get to the voting booths.

Of course Bernie would have won; does anyone doubt that Bernie would have kept the working class white men in Ohio, WI, PA and Michigan that voted for Obama twice but then switched to Trump? WI, PA & MI were the whole ballgame and they’re Bernie territory. We could have had President-elect Sanders instead of that fat,…

Publicly it was the best, most diplomatic thing he could have said in the immediate election aftermath, no different than Obama or Hillary’s messages.

It’s more like season one of Six Feet Under. There’s Canada, plugging away quietly at the job, when the US comes in all fanfare and noise whenever it wants, doing whatever it pleases and fucking shit up over and over again, but he’s so cute and charming and Canada is so meek and lacks confidence so no one really…

You guys, Canada has been cleaning up the world’s messes for YEARS, but no one seems to notice or remember.

Trump could use a Shawinigan Handshake.

It’s true. On our block, three doors down, there are three “stumbling blocks”, the devastating golden cobblestones that memorialize the Jews who lived at that address and who were dragged away, enslaved and murdered. And nobody in Germany minces words about a single part of that. It’s the Memorial to the Murdered Jews…

Yep. In Germany, you can’t walk three blocks without tripping over a holocaust memorial. And they didn’t turn their concentration camps into “nostalgic,” “charming,” “historical” places to host weddings, like we did with plantations.

They put us to shame in that department. America was built on genocide and slavery. How many Americans do you think would acknowledge that?

They also have very strict laws regarding hate speech. Breitbart and the like would have a hard time operating in Germany.

Jean Chrétien was by no means a favourite of mine but he was fucking savage to GW Bush during his presidency. Trudeau needs to take a page from that book.

we got you. we’ll take your refugees and your immigrants and we’ll turn them into productive citizens. we’ll take your better ideas and make them ours and make them work. we’ll fix our crap relationship with our first nations and we’ll see you on the other side. whatever value “western liberalism” has is alive and…

Americans forget the hell hole that was Communism in Europe, especially in East Germany because they weren’t neighbors to it. But having lived through it, I bet Merkel is in the concrete mindset of “Never again.”

Germany is pretty much the only country that doesn’t whitewash its history, and makes damn sure children are raised learning everything about its past mistakes so they won’t make them again. Virtually no other country does that.

She’s from East Germany. She knows what happens when this shit goes wrong. Do we all need to be reminded with some empirical evidence? Because that is where we’re heading.