Internet access doesn't pay the bills (actually it is a bill), construction work goes to existing contractors who are largely staffed up, rebuilding on mine sites would take years and that's after remediation. It's all a bunch of Reaganomics claptrap, failing to address the fact that "21st century jobs" are…

True, but while I don't trust Putin I don't believe his landslides are fake. Democracy can produce despots. The best part of the American system is that it recognizes the majority isn't always right. But we still have that lingering contempt for the underclass, we just can't shake it.

But that plan IS bootstraps. "Here's your community college degree now go find something— all of you all at once. Your mortgage-holder will give you two or three months at least."

Or… research might have told them that Trump shares their views on free trade but Clinton doesn't, or that he was more vocally supportive of universal health care and student loan forgiveness than she was.

It's about jobs. She promised to shut down all the coal mines. That one statement probably cost her Ohio and PA. There's a huge gap between promoting a shift toward renewables vs telling all those swing voters to polish up their bootstraps for an immediate and unnecessary crisis. Their interests were written off…

Well, he won four elections in a row and enacted so much socialism that the Republicans are still fighting him today— and still losing to him!

We aren't going to solve racism at the ballot box and we aren't going to win anything by shaming voters. We can't make everything a question of racist vs not racist. You know damn well how those numbers look. Unfavorable. If we're ever going to regain power it will be through focusing on a different issue. That…

If the pursuit of happiness belongs to everyone, then we cannot condemn Middle America to poverty. Our only choices are to prioritize that issue or keep losing. I agree that we've been fucked since Reagan and it's time we started talking about how and why. Instead we give in to Reaganomics at every opportunity and…

It's been argued that the American Revolution was a lot less liberal than those others. It wasn't a popular uprising and it wasn't about distributing bread, instead it favored landowners and preserved a brutal caste system.

In the sense that he promotes women's health, absolutely!

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"Basket of deplorables" is not exactly what I had in mind…

Where in the blue fuck were all the other candidates? I think we peaked at 4 and that didn't last long.

No it hasn't really changed, because the same faction held on. And we aren't likely to get universal health care from a candidate who calls it a fantasy like Hillary did. The party keeps turning its back on universal health care when we should be rallying around it like never before.

Get a cat.

And yet, the other side (be it Trump or ISIS) does in fact use religion to unite supporters. So it can be done. See also FDR.

Let's start with not attacking them and see where that gets us. Trump's not what I'd call a strong candidate, he just understands marketing. He plays to his audience. No reason we can't do that, and we don't have to do it his way.

Now is not the time to close ourselves off in a circle-jerk. There's room for everybody and we've got plenty to talk about.

He was NOT the only other option, but the party machine wasn't open to an open primary. And it's been like that for so long that our bench is indeed thin. We need to address that. We've become so fixated on volunteerism that we're filtering out everyone who needs to work for a living and might understand that side…

Right. So we might as well use it. For example, it might not hurt to point out how our views on women's rights aren't entirely compatible with some versions of Islam. Fact is, we're as strongly against Sharia law as the Republicans are. Perhaps moreso. Moderate Muslims agree with that point and so do most…