By “a lot” you mean “fewer than the percentage of Clinton primary voters in 2008 who didn’t vote for Obama”? You have a very rigid definition of “a lot”. It seems to mean “more than one”. So I guess in every election in the modern era “a lot” of the primary voters for the losing candidate have refused to support the…

Good point! Pelosi has run so many hard races in such a toss up district it makes sense for her to talk mad shit. She knows all about what it takes to win those swing districts. I mean, sure, the Dems lost a huge number of congressional districts since she’s been the Democratic House leader. But that just means she…

Immigration has so many angles for right wing politicians to abuse that the Democratic party and left parties all over the developed world really need to figure out how to remake the conversation.

Sorry, which private company is making billions by controlling the bike lanes and extracting a toll in order to create the impression it didn’t cost “taxpayers” anything? And how many more cars, spewing CO2 from their tail pipes, are now on the roads because of a streetcar?

I guess I thought things like helping workers to have a real say in how they are treated in the place they spend like a third of their week is more than “just” economic inequality. Or making sure elderly people are, at minimum, able to live a comfortable post-work life. Or reducing the stress and strain for America’s…

You’re right. How could anyone know what he thinks about various issues? He’s only introduced in to the Senate bills doing things like Medicare For All (the bill previous to the one in the article, S.1084), making it easier for American workers to form and join unions with the Workplace Democracy Act (S.2180),…

Greece spent in a currency it did not control. The Euro. Argentina spent in a currency it controlled but had artificially pegged to the US dollar over which it had no control. Weimar Germany was before the modern international monetary system existed with the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference. So all of your examples have…

““People live within their means and they are responsible with the decisions that they make, and we expect the same from our federal government.””

The richest country doesn’t imply an infinite fiscal capacity for every possible program we would want to implement in a perfect world. It’s like you are trying to create a straw man version of an advocate for a stronger, more active state for the right to attack.

“If the theory behind social democracy is supposed to work with the United States’ current size, then it should also work with the additional influx of people from immigration”

“Stopping jobs from going over seas is impossible in the system we live in”

Actually, you can start breathing again. The electoral college doesn’t need to be abolished through a constitutional amendment because the National Interstate Vote Compact will effectively nullify the electoral college. They only need states worth 270 of the “votes” to sign up for the agreement to come in to effect.…

I don’t know about every state, but in many states “professional athletes” are either completely excluded or partially excluded from state workers’ compensation coverage.

Wait, so right now McDonald’s is just giving people jobs when they don’t actually need those peoples’ labor? Wow. I didn’t know McDonald’s was a charity or jobs program. Since you say McDonald’s can easily cut workers they must be currently employing more people than they need to produce the goods their customers…

What the fuck does “artificially” mean in this context? All prices for all goods are based on the laws relating to that good. “The market” only exists because of laws and prices in the market are related to those laws. Labor is the same. Every price is “artificial” if a minimum wage is an “artificial” price.

It’s funny how you try to use “economicsy” words to say something completely ridiculous and the opposite of basic economic concepts.

Biden’s work on multiple bankruptcy “reform” bills should be disqualifying in the Democratic primary by itself. It was a disgusting change to help big creditors by using fake anecdotes and massaged data to suggest the biggest problem was non-rich people living it up on credit cards/other unsecured debt and laughing…

Because it’s not “more money for everyone”. It’s more money for some, less money for the poorest Americans who currently receive the most assistance from the programs Yang would cut as part of his plan.

Focusing on the “average” amount people receive is dumb. Some people receive way more than $700 and some people get nothing. The people who receive more than $700 (and I’m just assuming you’re right with that number) are for the most part, the most needy.

The UK conservatives (and New Labour) wanted the east and their poor citizens for low cost labor and new markets. Globalization was touted by people like Friedman as unalloyed good with no possible downsides. Poor immigrants come and become slightly less poor, the rich have more people to sell stuff to and become…