I mean considering that shit happens independent of ICE (although there is the “turn left” issue that these specific kids wouldn’t have died if someone else were president of the bureaucracy were different). It’s important when it comes to determining would should have been done, what could have been done, who’s to…

Is that a lot considering the numbers being processed and source population?

They are just giving us a sneak peak at Post-Trump Conservatives. (I am not ringing the Trump Death Bells, just predicting the inevitable ‘pivot’) They’re going to stop saying the quite part out loud, act like it was the Democrats who were being unreasonable, and then try to return to business as usual.

Unfortunately, this issue is constitutional in origin — the two-party system is written directly into it. That means if you’re not with one party, by design, you HAVE to be with the other, or you have no voice in the country’s government.

I vehemently disagree. A Biden victory over trump will always be a better result than a second Trump term. That is a fact. But we have to get through the primaries first before we get too deeply into Biden vs. Trump.

The tent needs to be big until we reclaim the executive branch. The tent needs to be big enough to capture the middle, including socially-liberal Republicans. Then, after we win, we can go a little left. This is exactly what Obama did. This is Politics101. Nobody has ever won a race by limiting who is allowed to vote…

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Looking forward to the gawker article about how hillarious it is when someone throws a milkshake in Ilhan Omar’s face. Oh wait, you’ll treat that like a hate crime and a sign of the deep seated racism that only the fierce moral urgency of pushing Israel into the sea will resolve.

Although it would be hilarious to see someone like Bernie, Warren, Omar, etc.. get nailed with a milkshake I hope it doesn't catch on over here.  Leave that with the fanatics in the UK.

Meh, I’m not particularly threatened by it myself. Frankly, it reinforces the idea that modern leftism is a glorified temper tantrum.

Right, but then this amounts to basically “We’re going to have a great wall on our southern border” without even the how-we-get-there buffoonery of “...and Mexico’s going to pay for it.”

We just tried the detailed policy proposals released over years by one side of politics (you could call it the more to the Left side of politics) in Australia. Didn’t end well over this weekend.

That's fine though. Higher education isn't for everyone and honestly nobody should need a degree to live a worthwhile life. Trade school and apprenticeships should go along with any public education funding. Some folks just like to work with their hands.

The devil is in the details.  When socialists talk about education they generally mean re-education.

Plan looks a little light on the...uh...“plan” part of it. It’s just a list of musts and wants. Optimism is not a strategy, so details of how all of this happens is kind of necessary sooner than later, no?

The problem with your theory is that socialism - inasmuch as it can succeed - is degraded by the same pressures that capitalism is, and socialism - were it to come to pass within our country - would still prop itself up on the backs of the undeveloped world.

I absolutely agree that we’re not getting actual socialism without a violent uprising. That’s never happened, and never will, because capitalism will never lay down its arms and sign on to its own destruction. I think we’re in a period where social democratic stances represent something generally progressive in the…

“There’s absolutely no point in waiting until 2020 to use the Democratic candidates’ combined political influence to actually get shit done; there’s already plenty of shit to do, and ways to do it, in the meantime.”

We can’t have a socialized economy in our lifetime without a violent uprising, and we can’t have a violent uprising in our lifetime without things getting much, much worse than they are now to gain the popular support necessary for it.

And lose our two best Senators?