The question is, are we going to appeal to the pocketbooks of that part of the country and use their self-interest to drag them into modernity? Or are we going to stamp our feet and keep losing elections?

By October, the Clinton campaign was focused on winning a landslide mandate and lost sight of the fact that she actually needed to win. We live in a world where the electoral college matters — she needed to focus on the states that would take her to victory instead of states she hoped would flip blue and be bragging…

I just want to use this opportunity to point out, again, that Voter Fraud And Election Rigging Is Extremely Extremely Rare.

Because no one believed Howard Dean when he talked about the fifty state strategy? This shit is why there needs to be a huge shakeup in the DNC leadership.

Why do people keep mentioning Cory Booker? If he wasn’t black you wouldn’t even consider him. It is this bizarre almost patronising desire to pick identity over anything else.

OMG I USED THE WRONG WORD AND I AM BEING ATTACKED ALL OVER THE PLACE! Get a fucking grip, people. I am a Democrat, I voted for Hillary and I didn’t say anything that wouldn’t be pointed by literally any campaign manager - ever. If you can’t have a calm discussion over these things it’s not surprising we’re living in…

I meant her racial identity. And I also meant to represent the standard attacks that these people would be under if you wanted to genuinely unite the nation behind them.

No, it’s not really that pesky. It’s an observable, replicated fact that co-educational environments are detrimental to girls and women, particularly in STEM-focused fields (while being better for boys and men than single-sex education), and that girls and women who attend single-sex schools and universities have…

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I agree with you completely. I’ve been arguing about this with liberal friends in the northeast for years now... they have no idea how terrible public education is basically anywhere outside of bougie coastal suburbs. I graduated from public school in Indiana with classmates that couldn’t read, and almost none who had…

I’m firmly against it regardless of gender, too. But even more so for women because the military can’t seem to clean up its act when handling sexual assaults against women. I would be absolutely mortified if we were in war and my daughters were forced to participate, knowing the way things are ran currently the…

You don’t have to empathize with them. However, at some point, after losing close to 3/4 of state governorships to the GOP and losing the national Electoral College to a complete buffoon, the Democratic Party needs to do something for Middle America beyond more of the same. The fact is, we need this region’s votes…

More to the point: why is Obama silent?

UGH! No. FUCK! They’re going to the CENTER for the white working class? Go to the fucking LEFT! Talk about economic justice! A new New Deal! Supports for labor! DONT GO TO THE FUCKING CENTER YOU TRIED THAT IT DIDN’T WORK IF YOU GO TO THE CENTER YOU’RE GOING TO GET ZERO VOTES AND LOSE A WHOOOOOOLE LOT MORE ON THE LEFT…

Hillary didn’t have an economic message. Can you remember any ad that she put out down the stretch in the election about what she would do about jobs? She was obsessed with foreign policy and “respectability” and courting moderate Republican voters. She never did anything about jobs.

Balthazar? Axel? Afton? That’s quite enough now, please stop.

No, they’re not for high school and college kids. The goddamned McDonald’s by my house is 24-7. High school kids don’t work the lunch rush during the work week. High school kids don’t work the overnight drunk asshole drive through rush. Hell, high school kids can’t even work the breakfast rush. If McDonald’s was only…

“That is Socialism.”

That sounds fantastic. Hook me up.

Or maybe it’s a matter of, I dunno, the CEO NOT making 7 million plus while his average full time employee earns 11 grand.

As a business owner, if I have to pay a McDonalds worker $15/ hour, those costs need to be borne somewhere. Its either through automation (ordering kiosks to eliminate headcount) or increased product price.