Look, you don’t become a billionaire just gilding everything.

For as much as Americans love to tout how free and individualistic they are, they are an amazingly subservient people.

Yeah, it’s always presented as smart to back a moderate even though the issues they’ll most certainly “compromise” (read: cave) on are the issues most important to anyone left of center. In the end, the left ends discouraged, the right isn’t won over, and the Republicans take back the office.

My back hurts just looking at this.

Aside from the fact the divide you describe is less regional than rural vs. urban and that economically splitting those area would be a clusterfuck that would badly hurt everyone, splitting up the country isn’t a solution to any problems as much as it is for one side to spite the other in the most petty way on the…

You do realize in pivoting from “people vote on social identity not issues” to “you need to campaign on money-related issues to win” in the span of two posts you’ve totally undercut your own point, right?

I look forward to the “unions are good for you, you fucking moron, so support them” campaign that isn’t at all problematic.

Of course, if you say “do you support this tax hike if it’s applied to people making over $500,000?” you probably get people back on board.

It’s baffling how policies considered “far left” continue to poll well across the entire electorate and yet people still insist candidates who run on them can’t win. It’s even more baffling when we have recent examples of left-center candidates eating shit to far-right ones.

I’ve seen estimates that about 6 to 9 million people who voted for Obama voted for Trump. It’s kinda strange that white resentment wasn’t an issue in voting for a black man eight years before it suddenly was. You aren’t the slightest bit curious as to why those people flipped and how that doesn’t fit with your very…

You also can’t evaluate the success of socialism becuase any nation that tries to implement it is inevitably punished by capitalist nations who try to strangle that nation economically or topple its leaders forcefully.

What continually baffles me is how liberals have totally forgotten how Obama won in 2008. He raised a lot of money on small donations many of which came from people who couldn’t give more than $20 or so.

This is assuming that Perez’s DNC and its sister organizations (DCCC, DSCC) put winning elections first. Their recruitment of candidates with money is far less about winning elections than it is feeding the ecosystem of consultants who tell every candidate to run the same cautious campaign. They just need to win…

Ah. So socialism is bad except when it’s good.

Ah. I’ll be sure to ask the next barista and retail cashier I meet about how tough their commute from *checks notes* Tanzania and Benin went.

I don’t think I could stare into that abyss.

In their defense, sitting with the feeling that you’re believed lies for most of your life or that you’ve benefited at the expense of others is incredibly uncomfortable and most people aren’t skilled enough to just let that feeling pass without harshly judging themselves or attacking the person that pointed out their…

It’s a bit baffling how the people evaluate elections without considering the people who *didn’t* vote and why.

So then how did Obama win Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania twice?

This gets ever funnier if you hop over to Libby Watson’s post about Facebook from about a week ago and see all the comments about how just plain stupid conservatives are for falling for the bullshit they streams down their feed.