Capitalism is what makes basic needs plentiful. Through competition to create more / better for less. The lazy conclusion is to assume that profit and self interest is bad, but it is vital.

Indeed. There is only one candidate that Splinter refuse to look at with the same level of scrutiny, and his name rhymes with Squirmy Flanders.

So your plan is...

The Declaration and Constitution largely concern limiting the powers of the government and what they can take from you and force you to do.

I don’t think ending capitalism is on the good side. It seems like it’s on the good side, but history has shown it is not.

It means if your bitch ass would get out of bed and work for a living rather than waiting around for daddy government to do it for you, good things *might* happen. 

Change is not always good.

I agree with you wholeheartedly. The posturing I was referring to was their rhetorical positioning of themselves as unlike any other politicians who came before them. Politicians’ bullshit should always be eye-roll-worthy even if I believe in the pol’s ideas. 

“Grow a pair and embrace a movement! Otherwise sit down and shut the fuck up.”

Look, if you don’t want to join the Stasi, you’re basically a coward.

They want to abolish capitalism and profit, the recipe for the 20th century’s biggest disasters.

1) An evil ruling class in a feudal era, which was beheaded. Then the beheaders were beheaded. Then the new ruling class sucked so hard that they paved the way for an Emperor.

I’m less interested in how it got started then how it ended. Liberals, being unable to understand the lessons of history, can only see how they’re going to stick it to the man, and absolutely nothing after that, but honestly, 100 years of conservative rule after a brief explosive time of liberal fantasy fulfillment is…

Prosecutors pull this shit all. the. time. They’ll fight tooth and nail to prevent the release of any new evidence that might prove a defendant’s innocence, regardless of the circumstances surrounding a case. Why? Because they don’t want to lose a conviction and damage their own careers. What makes less sense is that…

Absolutely. While of course they are wildly different in their level of insanity and damage, they all fell victim to the same kind of internal division and purges.

Of course no one comes out saying they want a violent revolution. They just want to create an impossible economic system that won’t work. When other places have tried that, violence has followed to keep the people in line.

Reigns of Terror are usually not pre-sold. They emerge organically after the fact when people realize that their ideals are impossible to achieve and that killing the rich didn’t actually solve any problems, and the impure must be purged. Then the real hi-jinx ensue!

It’s almost like the young bloggers of SplinterKidzNewz didn’t learn about the French Revolution, or maybe they’re not in 9th grade yet.  The good news about that though at the end of it, a bunch of ‘radical’ leftists ended up separated from their heads via the very same mechanism they put in place for ‘change’

Increasingly I see an alarming tendency in my fellow Democrats to equate pragmatism with cowardice, and to lionize rigid dogma. We can’t fight Trump by emulating his worst instincts, and this is certainly a case of that. Let’s not go down that road.  Instead, let’s win over voters by drawing an appealing contrast…

A few times in history there have been big, bold, young and exciting new ideas that were criticized by stodgy old skeletons who were about to die soon anyway. Heads rolled, fortunes were repossessed, and mansions were filled with the poor and deserving. A new day had dawned!