So? Try again. Worked elsewhere.

It was in response to an incredibly reductive question.

Lack of representation does not necessarily mean taxation is outsized.

Why do you think they had earned such a voice? Was the voice they wound up with a good one?

Other countries successfully negotiated their way out of colonial rule. That it took longer to do this than to declare war and kill thousands upon thousands of people doesn’t mean it was somehow wrong of those other countries. War is wrong.

So what you are saying is that the United States was a bad idea.

Yeah, okay.

You mean the ones that accomplished that goal peacefully?

What the United States did in 1776 was wrong and for the same reasons as all this dumb shit is wrong. The United States exists because people didn’t want to pay their fair share of taxes and, rather than negotiating like decent people, they decided to disrupt.

Or here’s an idea:

Ah, and now we come to name-calling. Great!

Christ, you’re one of those? I’ll have to explain this to you.

I wasn’t trying to covertly do anything. The thread was about Clinton before you chimed in. You explicitly replied to a comment mentioning a specific kind of Clinton supporter and said that you were one of them.

Clinton is not a candidate with overwhelmingly “good ideas”. She has “strong plans” for new foreign wars that will cost the lives of thousands of people, who will be disproportionately brown on both sides. She says it’s fine that there’s room for restrictions on abortion access in Roe v. Wade and chose a VP who…

A country isn’t a company and shouldn’t be run like one.

And that is why the bar is set so low by the Democrats.

I’d argue that’s no worse a metric than picking purely based on pragmatism instead of policy positions.

Try Googling the names of past and current candidates and the word “likable”. While search results are tailored to the user, at least for me, Kerry, Obama, and Trump actually all turn up more results for such a search than Clinton does. Gore certainly turned up less (the age of the internet may be a factor), but there…

This is my point, yes, even if “popular” is a very strong word for even her highest favorability ratings. People are more demanding of people interviewing for the job than people who have already settled into the job, especially when they aren’t allowed to fire them.

Probably because of all the people who come out of the woodwork when the subject arises (such as in the comments on this very article) who insist they don’t want someone likable for president, they want a boring wonk. These people are loud, but when you look at the results over the last couple decades, they get…