They just traded away their two backup PGs, so I think we’re safe?

Counterpoint: Butler made the Bulls occasionally compelling, but now there’s zero reason to ever watch them at all. GarPax have set us all free!

That goat has two horns! It’s twice as good as a unicorn!

“But if one begins by accepting “the common good” as an axiom and regarding individual good as its possible but not necessary consequence (not necessary in any particular case), one ends up with such a gruesome absurdity as Soviet Russia.”

How about instituting pre-conviction torture as a form of punishment? The president supports it; he won the election, so enough of the country supports it. Should the government be in the business of torturing suspected criminals?

But you’re only getting it from one side. “Choosing a side” on political questions is a basic responsibility of citizenship in a democracy, not the prelude to a cultural revolution.

But still take responsibility when it goes wrong.

I read a truly insane article about the Trudeau-Brazeau boxing match that proclaimed it a major victory for the concept of “honor,” which had traditionally meant white men committing violence on each other to make a point but had, in the recent past, been used far too often to refer to non-white men using violence to…

“Canes? Buncha little bitches.” —Alexander Hamilton

That’s exactly the problem they’re lamenting — Republicans are doing something unconscionable and their are no Democrats to blame.

Except the only acceptable compromise will be total submission; McConnell would be happy to let Democrats vote for his bills, but he’ll never consult with them and he sure as hell won’t make policy concessions for them. And why should he? He can get enough votes in his party, so why make (presumably larger)…

They also tend to believe that they are that perfectly rational, disinterested person, because if they weren’t right then why would they think they are?

I think the larger problem is that one of the parties rejects the legitimacy of a political process they don’t control. Remember, Democrats tried to compromise with Republicans on a healthcare bill; Obama nominated a centrist for SCOTUS in Merrick Garland; the response both times was that they or he didn’t have a…

People comfortable enough not to care about politics are the True Americans we should all look up to.

Yeah, wouldn’t want a president who sends a federal paramilitary to disappear people without process, or an attorney general who wants to lock people up for smoking pot...BETTER STOP THE LEFT, HUH?

And, furthermore, wouldn’t really want to. I’ll take a little incivility over my party catering to white supremacists any day.

But it can’t pass because it’s directly opposed to GOP “law & order” (punish & torment) ideology: they want higher sentences for everything and think anyone who doesn’t is a pussy. The only way it could get passed is conjoined to something Republicans love as much as they hate rehabilitation, like eliminating capital…

Yes? That conclusion is true, so the logic is just fine.

And they were weakly aligned on those issues because they were strongly aligned in their attitudes towards white supremacy. The Southern Strategy succeeded in creating the current conservative/Evangelical/white-supremacist fusion of the Republican Party.