Prevention and treatment of what? Jesus fucking Christ, we aren’t going to be a socialist country. That’s the definition of insanity. The whole goddamn point of America is our constitutional system, and the whole goddamn point of our constitutional system is to blend elements of many different economic and political…

Haha, sure, go ahead and call suggesting an exploration of union reform, progressive taxes, and smarter/stronger regulation “handwavy talk” while offering nothing better than this gem: “So where then the solution? Critical mass and a flashpoint would do it.” and some college freshman reading lists. I appreciate…

Again, the lack of critical reading is astonishing. I assume you had most of that post written before you were through two sentence of my original post.

Untrue. I believe there are many solutions to our current problems. I don’t think violent revolution should be one of them.

If I was defending the status quo, I’d take offense. If you could read critically, maybe you wouldn’t.

I’m not talking about college education, or degrees. I meant educating people on how to use our political system to their advantage rather than asking an ethicist about the ethics of revolutions. I mean educating the working poor about the value of unions, rather than throwing up your hands and calling for the…

You’re not wrong here. This is my problem with HamNo and the revolution generation. They can quote endless statistics about the wealth gap, but there is so much more that could be done between “rant online” and “revolution.” But they won’t do it. To be fair, I’m not really doing anything either, besides donating a…

Yeah, my revisionist history comment was a bit premature—I interpreted your comment as saying that the women/slave population debate was a primary reason for creating the House, but I think I took your comment further than you meant.

Again, just because “3/5 Compromise” has the word compromise in the name, that doesn’t mean you can compare it to every other compromise.

This is an insane take. This is the exact fucking argument the founders had, and the very reason they created the House of Reps. You have to balance State power with democratic power, otherwise our Congress becomes the government of TX, CA, and NY, and other states twiddle their thumbs at the kid’s table.

You are basing your entire comment on an inaccurate premise. The founders weren’t trying to find a Congressional compromise in order to balance states with high numbers of slaves and non-voting women. They were trying to find a compromise so that small states had out outlet for political influence.

Or, you (obviously not you in particular, just statistically most of the Green Party voters, and also extends to most third party supporters on both sides of the spectrum) might want to advance those critiques through better candidates at the state and local level instead of voting every four years for wildly…

Your frequent characterizations of Hillary Clinton as a focused grouped super centrist passionless dynastic robot show either an inability or unwillingness to 1) read anything about her past experiences, before and during her political career, 2) understand the nuances of sexism in our political environment, and 3)…