It’s the patronizing “tut-tutting” that really makes it that right kind of dumb. They have a “guy who watches Rachel Maddow” level of knowledge about these issues, yet they seem to think they’re intimately familiar with the modern American left.

“The problem with attempting to apply extensive ownership of the means of production to the modern U.S. economy is that we don’t actually produce all that much anymore. We are a service-based economy now, like most developed countries in the world today.”

Thanks for the toolsplaing. You don’t get to snarksplain to me when “-splaining” is over.

Ah, tone policing and marginalizing opposing view points by associating them with irrational emotion. The “stop hitting yourself” of internet political discussions. The “centrists” are like the rich kid camp from the other side of the lake at the beginning of a snobs v slobs movie. It’s all patronizing and self…

“Warren’s corporate governance bill is still capitalist, as I pointed out.”

Like a bill which was introduced in to Congress? That kind of plan?

Thanks for capitalsplaining socialism for the lefties! You clearly know what Krueger wants better than she does because she’s clearly too stupid to understand what socialism is and what the modern American left wants American socialism to be moving forward.

I mean, other than socializing large parts of two of the biggest sectors of the American economy (as the poster acknowledges), what is Sanders doing that is so “socialist”? Huh?

More socialist than nationalizing the entire health care benefits administration sector?

Wow, selective quotation much? If you read literally the next sentence from both of your pulls, it’s pretty clear Krueger is actually being pretty critical of Warren’s apparent desire to placate the boomer Democratic money men who like knowing their son can marry his boyfriend, but definitely do not think they should…

“Bernie is still unable to adequately understand the concerns of minority voters who are worried about more than just socioeconomic class issues and gain their support.”

It was based on the JT Leroy book of the same name. A book which turned out to have been entirely made up with JT Leroy actually being a 30 (or 40?) something year old woman, and the in person JT being played by a 20 something year old woman, rather than a teen age transsexual(?) boy as claimed. I believe in the story…

Automation is going to happen regardless of the minimum wage rate as the cost of technology decreases over time.

Like a lot of cruel republican policy initiatives, this likely even save money. The policy requires the creation of a new bureaucracy to figure out who needs a good punishin’ and that costs money. Then it turns out the number of people who are gonna get a good punishin’ is not actually that high so the amount saved by…

The voters won’t do anything about this. The people impacted by this policy don’t vote and the people who vote are thrilled by the impact of this policy. They actively want to see people kicked of Medicaid if they aren’t “working”(regardless of the reason why they aren’t).

Exactly. The poor don’t vote. The real lower income gop voter is someone making just a little bit too much to be eligible for medicaid, usually by working a terrible job which doesn’t provide any benefits.

“because by and large the rule of thumb has been that life is better where it’s easier to do business.”

I wonder if your aversion to “communal ownership” might come from conflating “private property” with “personal property”. Not even communism would mean everything is communally owned. People still own their personal “stuff”. Socialism would just mean capital is owned by all of us and we would all directly benefit from…

The need for vigorous government intrusion for capitalism to function is more basic than creating the “rules of the road”, as it were. The very institution of private property only exists because of the government. Without an entity empowered to police claims of ownership and enforce its decisions with violence,…

There are plenty of ways. Ignoring the 5th amendment says “...nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” (malleable terms that can be met by a whole host of possible policies), some very reasonable and…