Trump got elected for several reasons, and policy being complicated isn’t one of them. Russian interference was the big one. 25 years of coordinated attacks on Hillary Clinton was another. Not to mention the FBI’s very poor handling of that email “revelation” a week before the election. And my personal favorite, all…

OK, and where is all of this new money magically coming from? And with all of it in circulation, how will you prevent inflation from making essential goods unaffordable?

So find a country that comports with your pristine moral values, and move there, I guess. Good luck with that one.

Because it’s giving yourself way too much credit. There’s a slight difference between storming a beach in Normandy in the face of German machine-gun fire, and deciding you have a messiah complex and running around your new hometown telling people to vote for you.

But it also needs to enter the atmosphere at a pretty precise angle of incidence, right? And she didn’t say “fire rockets from the Moon,” she said “drop rocks from the Moon.” Which is already basically eliminating the possibility of achieving any kind of escape velocity, lol.

I didn’t want to drop the internment camps because they were in the past, but because I thought they were a distraction from a discussion that was about economics. You can find embarrassing and even catastrophic events in every country’s history, and while they shouldn’t be forgotten, they shouldn’t always be…

I actually agree with most of that! But by the time it gets through the healthcare lobby, the right-wing echo chamber, the unions, etc., it’ll be ten times harder than it sounds to maintain enough support to get it done. Special interests will be fighting it tooth and nail the whole way.

It may look like that’s what seasoned politicians are doing, but it’s not. They’re very careful about every word that comes out of their mouths, because they know the laws of politics aren’t always intuitive, and you can pay a steep price for even a small misstatement.

Compared to what? What we’ve been doing for the last two years is truly evil, I won’t disagree with you there. But look at the fates of East and West Germany after World War II—or Japan, for that matter. We had some tough choices to make over the years, particularly where containing communism was concerned, and we…

I can’t help but think Bethesda might have something to say about this cameo...

I’m for universal health care. The problem is, ripping out the existing system would cost millions of jobs and piss off all the doctors, many of whom are foreign-born and only stay here because it’s so lucrative. The issue isn’t the destination; it’s how you get there from here without souring everybody on the whole…

To whom? In what context? Why now?

There are legit criticisms of everyone who has ever walked the earth. But it’s clear that for a lot of activists, there’s no such thing as good enough, and it comes down to, what are you trying to achieve by invoking this? If you’re arguing for socialism, why skip over FDR’s economic reforms and talk about the…

I don’t disagree with that, but you have to do it intelligently. You need to understand how the game works, and has worked for long before either of us were around to learn the rules. And because the playing field is so tilted toward Republicans, you have to do it at a massive fundraising disadvantage. But we have to…

I don’t think it’s fair to classify the Democratic platform as center-right. And I’m not saying the answer is bait-and-switch. The answer is incremental change and honest discourse.

Keep it coming. We’ll see how many times I have to flag you for harassment before you get shadowbanned.

No, see, I’m not a troll. You wrote something to me. I replied politely. You dismissed my reply, at which point I said fine, we’re done here. I just flagged the 10 copies of your latest post and then dismissed those as well. Don’t try to drag others into the sad little flamewar that you started.

Not a troll, wasn’t insulting, wrote an earnest reply that even got a bunch of upvotes.

Did you dismiss my previous reply? Well, two can play at that game.

Not even close.