I adore your conscience resting easily as nearly every CEO that matters in America (read: "rich, white men") donates to your causes and parties. Take it from Republicans: there's never any conflict between those guys and the social causes you get so worked up about! Smooth sailing ahead! Do let me know how the central…

As do liberals. It's fucking boring to say. "Polarization has lead to 'ends-justify-the-means' politics over ideology!"

You just read the above explanation as "libertarian," so I'll re-up the "read books" suggestion.

*complains about selfish, antisocial behavior*
*writes "absurdity of religious beliefs"*

Sadly, yes, it is true of both sides.

Says the person who thinks New Jersey's education system is worth emulating.

Step 1: Liberals start some new program with no metrics, payment plan, or clear vision, but with some built-in interest group that will bitch if it ever gets cut.
Step 2: It exists for what seems like an eternity.
Step 3: Conservatives try to purge some of the bloat.
Step 4: Liberals complain that conservatives hate said…

What in the fuck are you saying? Republican legislators, conservative thinkers, and right-wing grassroots organizers heavily argue the opposite, that "authentic" society is being decimated by government (which is supposedly, at best, reflective of society) and that protecting the family, the religious institution, the…

I think the only reason that I like The A.V. Club in 2017 is that it allows middlebrow left-wing people like you the ability to post comments like this in a way that lacks self-consciousness (which heightens your honesty) and self-awareness (which heightens your hilarity).

This…makes me very sad, because it is true.

UTERINE STREET FIGHT. FEATURING MULTIPLE MEMBERS OF THE MEAN STREET POSSE (who appear as if they had forced women they've slept with to have abortions).

There were a weird amount of comments on the last post to that effect, as if he was a west coast 1990s throwback.

It's so unfortunate. I get that who, exactly, they had in Congress would fluctuate, but they had SO MANY YEARS to have a real, workable plan and address the fact that, whatever the Affordable Care Act's flaws, people wanted the stuff it gave but hated the penalties that made it work, just like every other social…

I don't know, I think maybe paying 1 quarter of 1 teacher's yearly salary at 10 schools could stem the tide of professional school district failure, desegregate Chicago, and address the emotional health issues of many of Chicago's students!

$1,000,000 dollars that quickly is a big deal even for someone who's business-wealthy and not art-wealthy, so I hear you. It does put in bold how personally generous this is, matching funds.

1st point: Yes. And? That's what I'm saying. If you take that as a horrible thing, yeah, sure, put some blame on him. But this is the end of the story, not the beginning, and a Republican getting voted in as governor tells you the temperature of Illinois.

Actual Twitter post with lots of likes: "'Chance the Rapper'donated $1million to Chicago schools. Too bad he cannot donate 1 million fathers, because that's what is truly lacking."

It will help them do ___. Fill in the blank. Like, all schools should have tons and tons of money in an ideal world, but if there is scarcity, what is the outcome of having this money. If the answer is equity, then more sides than Rauner are to blame, and Chance's donations and the (hopeful) future donations spurred…

Yeah, if only Chance knew some people who lived there!

"It doesn't matter how long it's been going on; what matters is that they need funding NOW and that the governor NOW is not giving Chicago funding that's actually proportionate to the number of students they have. This is fixable. He's standing in the way of a fix."