Yet the same Nordic countries noted in the article that you linked, are also some of the happiest in the world. Norway and Denmark being 1st and 2nd respectively. Iceland is also mentioned in the article, which is in 3rd place. So maybe a greater focus on work/life balance plays a part.

What free market? There isn’t much left and most of it is in consumer electronics. 

Jesus FUCKING CHRIST. Why does EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE on this site have to have an immediate comment about politics? Does your type have no off switch? Do you look at every single event in your life through the lens of the current president and whatever they are proposing that day? Holy shit.

Oh. Capitalism. The answer is capitalism.

I gotta think the sports industry is due for a correction at some point. Salaries, revenues and ad dollars can’t skyrocket forever ... can they?

I will have my popcorn handy. The folks who are currently applauding the death of the e-vehicle tax credit because ‘the market can’t make the business case for hybrids’ will be there stating that the oil industry needs to be propped up with my tax dollars to ‘preserve quality jobs’ and ‘maintain national security.’

I completely disagree. Moving more to the center would cause Dems to lose elections at an even greater rank because it would alienate the base, keeping them from turning out. Ex-Republicans were never going to cross over if not in this past election.

God, remember back when we all thought she was just the battiest goddamned thing to ever come out of politics, and how it was amazing someone that unprepared for office was anywhere even near the presidency?

The only time John McCain was a good idea was when the alternative was George W. Bush.

Agreed 100%. I know basic income is one of Sanders’s potential points. That is a tall-ass motherfucking order in this country, though, partly because of the Republicans and partly because of this country’s damned cultural obsession with capitalism and No One Gets A Free Ride.

Selecting Keith Ellison would be the rational, intelligent, wise thing for the DNC to do. I therefore expect them to go in a completely different direction.

Not gonna happen. If you guys want to define yourself as “textbook moderate Democrats,” then I’m a textbook hard leftist. Well, in American standards.

2018 is a lost cause. That senate map is a nightmare for democrats, where they are the incumbents in 25 of the 33 races. They have to go 25 for 33 just to hold minority they have, while the Republicans only have to win 9 of 33 to increase their lead, and the house districts are so gerrymandered that nothings going to…

It seems like many Democrats are content with the center. I’ve heard for a long time about how radically left Obama was, but what was so different about him? He was pro-business, pro-war, pro-surveillance, pro-school reform, pro-dark military, etc. How was Hillary Clinton any different? Her husband was the king of all…

What’s especially cool about this is that Perez is only running for DNC chair because the more logical office for him to seek, Governor of Maryland, his home state, is considered by the Democratic establishment an “unwinnable” race because of the popularity of GOP governor Larry Hogan.

I agree. Dems need to cool it with identity politics. Living in a very deep red area I will say that Dems do need to go way more left and they(us/me) really need to explain how Republican agendas do not in anyway help these people.

They also need to tone down the moral arguments. The middle of the country is ready for change. They need to start explaining how little the GOP has really done for the middle of the country. Farmers need NAFTA and trade deals. Mexico is set to destroy our corn exports by switching to South American imports.

If there’s anything to take away from this election it’s that the message mattered a lot more than the tone of how it was delivered.

I’d say a far bigger driver of inequality sticking around is the fact that many people don’t mind it.

when the south park guys are all “we can’t make fun of this anymore…”