Before Monday D.R. Horton and Murphy Oil from the NLRB, with a number of appeals courts reaffirming the decisions, said these types of clauses (and even arbitration itself) violated Section 7 of the NLRA. The SCOTUS decided to find, without being required by any specific statutory language, that Section 7 protected…

As compared to “I’m right because I say so and anyone who questions me is an immature child”. At least “neoliberal corpratist shill is an attempt to engage with actual political ideas and questions. Instead of an “argument ad daddyum”.

Hahaha. Your completely normal, totally not insane crusade against “leftist” influence in the Democratic party is going to be recognized for the necessary and important work it truly is any day now. Then the Democratic party can rediscover its most perfect form. The “New Democrat” Democratic party of the 90s. A better…

Yeah, exactly. And from the same article we can never forget

I wonder if they are similarly dismissive toward “other” groups of people who have lower levels of voter turnout due to purposeful, systemic impediments that are implemented to make voting more difficult? The newly discovered, inch deep “wokeness” of the Democratic party’s right wing is constantly shown to be the…

What’s the obsession with “anti-progressives” (for lack of a better term to fit a diverse group of people) and describing their political enemies as “immature” and “children” while they are “serious” and “adults”?

To what “dipshittery” are you referring? Because the tea party didn’t see bringing government to a grinding halt as a problem, but instead a great practical and moral victory. So I would argue for the purpose of achieving their political goals, they understood perfectly well how government works.

The claim workers vote Democratic and trump won “with the rich”, so the Democratic party doesn’t have a problem with appealing to lower income voters is obfuscation with irrelevant statistics.

as opposed to your very successful messaging strategy of calling them “deplorables” and ultimately deciding to jettison white workers from the coalition and instead try and pick up suburban voters who are more amenable to the DLCist economic agenda of means tested technocratic kludges designed to acknowledge problems…

You’re doing it right now! Saying a ruling establishing something that wasn’t specifically in a law passed by Congress is good (this ruling) while other rulings establishing something that wasn’t specifically in a law passed by Congress are bad (gay marriage).

Yeah, they should take their ball and go home unless we all give them our unquestioning love, support, and appreciation! Because apparently the Democratic party is a vehicle for the Clinton’s political fortunes and not a way to implement policies for the needs to the party’s constituents. Could you be anymore of a…

Who gives Obama a “pass”? There has been a bunch of criticism about how much one could attribute the decimation of the Democratic party at every level of government since 2010 on Obama’s strategic choices, policy positions, and use of resources (such as network he created for the 2008 election). The only people who…

Yup. Statistically, considering the state, local area, and race of the people involved it is likely they voted to get all of this good and hard. It’s pretty weird to complain when you get exactly what you voted for. But I’m sure if these people did vote gop, they were voting for those other people to not get the…

The point is the SCOTUS “rule on what the current law allows” isn’t objectively correct (as evidenced by the 5-4 breakdown). The court could have just as easily and legitimately held that Section 7 of the NLRA prohibits restrictions on class actions in employment agreements because it is a restriction on protected…

I totally agree. I’m only saying that a ban on class action waivers in employment agreements should be the kind of achievable Pragmatic Progressivism which some people keep telling us is the only way to Get Things Done. The FAA definitely needs to be completely changed to ban forced arbitration for consumer and…

Where are you getting that a new law is taking precedence over an older law? The FAA is from 1926 and the NLRA is from 1935. The court ruled class actions in arbitration are not “concerted activity” as protected by Section 7 of the NLRA so the FAA’s “broad” scope for arbitration agreements is not defeated by the…

The court said the FAA doesn’t specifically say these class action waivers are or are not allowed, but Congress probably was ok with it when they passed the FAA. But at the same time the NLRA doesn’t specifically say that under section 7 that class actions are a type of “protected concerted activity” the NLRA meant…

No, since this holding was based on statute and not some constitutional principle. This was more about “what did Congress want when it passed the FAA” and not “what did some guys more than 200 years ago vaguely suggest would be a good idea”.

What evidence is there that executive experience is necessary for doing a good job as a political executive? Did you support Obama? He had no executive experience and seemed to do an ok job. The governor isn’t sitting in a big room by themselves and making all the decisions on their own. They have a team, like any…

The only “good part” about this ruling (in the broadest sense of “good”) is the decision rests on a statute (the Federal Arbitration Act or FAA) that can be changed. Plus the change (should be) easy to advocate for and hard to oppose. It (again, should be) impossible for any Democratic legislator to be against…