“effectively advocated for the most insidious form of toxic individualism — the idea that collective action and lobbying your government to do better is actually immoral. (I.e. the philosophical foundation of modern conservatism.)“

I suspect (and fervently) hope that his deranged callous CPR comment follows him around for the rest of his life. Every shows he’s ever on should ask him about it.

You seem to be more interested in the color shirts that the different teams wear than the actual effect of policy on society. The October Revolution may have started in the name of the people but Stalin and his successors were just new Tsars with different titles. This is disturbing trend is obviously apparent with…

In many ways, the stupidest part of a generally moronic comment was the “instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem” part. So kids getting shot with high-powered semi-automatic rifles in school is THEIR problem? We—the “adults”—didn’t have anything to do with creating the problem?

“Presenting the other side” is a false equivalency. I know what the “other side” says. It is actually predictable. The “right” has always been wrong. They have consistently been against the arc of human progress throughout history. They can lay in the filth of the Sinclair, Fox, etc. propaganda pits until they drown…

Frothy Rick is still around? For some reason I thought he had slunk back into the cave he crawled out of (seriously, it’s likely. the whole middle part of PA is riddled with caves). I had imagined he left the public sphere because of the shame he brought to his name and caused his family, but apparently that was just…

His broader point, he added, was that kids should be joining organizations that focus on preventing gun violence.

“The fact of the matter is I did misspeak in using the term ‘CPR,’” Santorum said. His broader point, he added, was that kids should be joining organizations that focus on preventing gun violence.”

Meanwhile far-right extremists seem to get nowhere near the same level of attention, despite a neo-Nazi group being involved in actual deaths (Atomwaffen). It doesn’t seem like they’re watching the social media of violent far-right activists. Hell they won’t even talk about them as a threat, unlike “black identity…

Well, Bush Jrs. ratings were worse than Trump’s when 9/11 happened. Then they shot up to 90%.

Agree, These white people can call themselves republican, democrat, independent, green or libertarian. At the end of the day they’re still straight white people and straight white people overwhelmingly want the same damn things. Change will come with diverse candidates getting elected.

Why does the U.S. call anything a war anymore? Everything since WW2 has been an imperialist invasion.

Its nothing less than we deserve for letting democracy rot on the vine. We have this habit of protesting candidates (by not voting) when they don’t promise us everything we want to hear, and then we spend even more time protesting the policies of the candidate we didn’t want in there in the first place, but did…

McMaster shares the Iran obsession with a number of other less deranged Trump appointees, like Mattis. It’s their biggest blind spot, where they stop being professionals and become ideologues.

I like how Trump admits that he likes Bolton because he’s a yes man. This fucking administration. . .

I agree completely, but at the same time, I’m afraid of what might happen if POC voters abandoned the Democratic Party. What if, even just for one election cycle, Republicans had the necessary seats in congress and state legislatures to pass an amendment to the constitution? That’s fucking terrifying. An end to term…

White Progressive male here. First, I will never pretend to relate to the challenges that being black in America today poses. All I can do is my best to empathize. I think do a pretty good job on that front. That out of the way, a third party branching off of the left-wing, will be disastrous for the country at large.…

We need to start from the ground up.

The issue I always have with people talking about voting third-party, is that the third party candidates aren’t about jack shit either. This isn’t a “Democrats and Republicans and the two party system” problem; it’s a “white people run the federal government” problem.