It’s a terrible system.

Nah—implanting new or different ideas into the political discourse is absolutely meaningful. It's how movements are created. It's how change happens. Gotta start somewhere. I totally agree with you on the concept of pushing your opponent left or right however.

He won't.

True, but he’s also not a progressive--he’s not now, and he never has been. I don’t expect him to adhere to any of these “commitments” he’s made in this campaign. I knew he was likely to win, but I really wish that the margin had been closer--he’s definitely going to read this positively as a referendum on his…

You don’t necessarily have to be an outsider to be effective though. Tish James has been a pain in the ass to the power structures that be for a long long time--she has a proven record of being out there on the ground fighting the good fight. I’d never even heard of Teachout until a couple months ago. Where's she been?

I don’t think she really knows who she is or what she believes.

It’s one thing to change your position with an evolving culture or when presented new or different evidence, it’s another thing to shift your position whenever it’s politically expedient. Hillary Clinton, unfortunately did to much of the latter, Cuomo is even worse.

We’re in a time where we are desperately wrestling with the question of whether the ends justify the means. Yout can’t deny the Tea Party’s success, however when people.on the left talk about building a similar movement, I think what we’re talking about is creating a more unified progressive grassroots voting bloc,…

Why Teachout? if you’re looking for a proven progressive for AG we got one. I haven’t always been a fan of Tish James, and I was conflicted between my values as a private citizen and my duties in my job, but if you want someone who is going to rock the boat for people on the ground, she’ll do that. Tish is a pain in…

Because that always works out well

But that’s the thing, it’s really not. Basically what she’s saying is that she didn’t diligently investigate or explore the groups she associated with in college, and was susceptible to and adopted done pretty weird views.

She’s 27 years old. What is indicative of is that she’s only recently formulated her nascent views. She barely knows what she believes, I don’t trust her, and I don’t think she’s ready for this job, but hey, not my district.

Ehhh. I love Serena, but I’m kind of on the fence on this whole thing—there comes a point where you’ve said your piece and you have to drop it. The funny thing is that it’s likely Serena didn’t see the coaching, so her response is totally understandable from her perspective, the taking of the point without a warning…

You’ve got a point there...

Bullshit.

No—the issue is one of methodology and tactics, plain and simple. Police hear, “we need greater presence, please keep our communities safe,” and the programmatic response has been, “ok, let’s implement wide-scale profiling of males 12-50 and act as though the basis for reasonable suspicion is being a black or latino…

That is literally insane. Stop.

More like his defense attorneys are doing their jobs, this is a non-story.

It’s amazing that people still hold such stupid and ignorant opinions as you do in 2018. Go back to sleep under your rock.

Do you know why nobody wants to talk to them? Because they don’t fucking trust them. That’s the thing about stop and frisk, broken widows, neighborhood sweeps, “random” traffic stops, etc.—it’s fucking bad policing. It undermines the polices’s ability to actually do their jobs because the methods they employ foment…