It’s possible to try and appeal to their material interests and bridge the divide. That’s how they were won over in the past. But like you said, their mindless and blinkered self righteous belief they don’t need “handouts” but only get help they deserve (handouts are for “those people”) means they may be unreachable.…

What does that even mean? If the “dogmatic hardliners” are a large part of the caucus then that means they represent a large part of the electorate. Well, at least 50%+1 in a lot of voting units.

Why not? How does his voting impact anyone else? It’s effectively meaningless in the context of an election in that it won’t, by itself, change the outcome. And there are so few “terrorists” in prisons that it’s not like they’ll all band together to vote in a terrorist representative at any level of government.

If you’re a republican saying “It’s a punishment”seems to be totally acceptable. But that’s a weird position to take if you’re running in the Democratic primary.

We don’t strip all civil rights from prisoners. They’re guaranteed constitutional protections just like non-prisoners. It’s just that the courts have held, like for any constitutional right, they may not apply for whatever reason in regards to certain actions by the government in respect to prisoners.

Nope. They’d figure out some way to explain why their cheap college was earned and deserved while equally cheap college for “kids” today is a hand out for lazy, entitled brats. That’s literally all they do every day. Craft reasons for why every public good they received when they were younger was ok for them but bad…

I guess there must be some sort of connection between being a patronizing idiot and hating Sanders. I wonder what it is? Because the two go hand in hand so often it must be more than sheer coincidence.

Then maybe those cities or counties shouldn’t base their entire economies around incarceration if they don’t want it to impact their lives at all?

Good point. We should abolish the entire concept of bankruptcy and reintroduce debt bondage or debtors prison for people and corporations that can’t pay back money they borrowed. Like you said, choices. Will the CEO who approved the debt or the CEO in charge when it turns out the money can’t be payed back become a…

The beginning with the “If they were your children you’d ground them, your employees you’d fire them” is a fantastic encapsulation of the cold, dead, heart of American conservatism.

The chutzpah required for any republican to talk about “fighting for affordable health care” is breathtaking. Every bill they’ve even discussed since the ACA was passed is premised directly on making health care less affordable for a large swath of the population.

Why would they prefer that to not existing at all? It would be effectively the same thing for the current shareholders. That’s why anyone claiming we should do Germany instead of Canada for our health care model is blowing smoke. The kind of regulatory changes which would be necessary to make our health care system…

You don’t get it Libby. If people don’t have Skin In The Game (tm), they’ll spend all their time hanging out at the hospital getting every test and procedure known to man. Just for shits and giggles. That’s why we need higher deductibles than the average American’s savings. So they understand they aren’t actually…

You know who else did not accept (or it leat, claims not to have accepted) an Omar donation? Lucy McBath in GA-6.

It’s not comparing apples to peanuts. You just apparently think it’s unfair that the federal government, the world’s largest corporation, allows it’s various divisions to use existing synergies to make all the divisions more efficient in their specific role. But that’s kind of the whole point of a government run plan.

Especially when it happens due to explicit government decisions, but just impacts the workers, like with NAFTA and other “free trade” agreements. But suddenly the same types of people who thought a laid of factory worker in Akron should go learn to code is crying crocodile tears for an insurance billing specialist…

If you look at any of the “Medicare For All” plans introduced in the House or Senate over the last couple of years, they expressly change the way current Medicare is structured as part of bringing everyone in to the pool.

Not at all? That’s weird. The ACA law only prevents a person who is offered a “qualifying”, “affordable” health insurance plan through their employer from receiving tax credits to help them pay the premiums regardless of the person’s income. I wonder why they’d want to prevent people with jobs (who are typically…

Employees aren’t able to “write off” their employer’s contribution to the employee’s health insurance. Employees just don’t get taxed on the amount of the employee’s compensation dedicated to health insurance. Unlike how the tax code treats other types of compensation like cash or payments made for non-health…

Talk about projection. If it’s anyone who has made it known they have one candidate in mind who they will never, ever vote for in any election it’s the Bernie Bashers. It’s also nice to see the marginalization of female voters is still going strong. But those silly ladies probably just pretend to like Bernie to look…