Sure they do, if they insist on it being a primary plank of the party platform and actually get their way.  At no time was Rick Perry ever even remotely close to realizing his dream of getting the Republican party behind efforts to disband those agencies.  

Our society’s safety net sucks donkey balls and healthcare is expensive. Until it doesn’t, those pools actually serve a valid function. It’d be nice if they were more regulated, but having known a few people who sold their policies, on balance it existing sans meaningful regulation was a lot better for them than it…

But the point is that no one who is even remotely aware of how Washington functions in the Republican party has any interest in abolishing those departments. Rick Perry was bounced because he’s a blithering moron. For, among other reasons, wanting to abolish the Departments of Energy and Education.

Yes, it’s still a fringe idea in the Republican party. Rick Perry was not a legitimate contender in 2016, and in 2012 he bombed out almost instantly after forgetting the name of the department he now runs.

They’ve had presidential candidates who have proposed cutting entire well-established (and entirely necessary) cabinet departments - Energy, Education, the IRS for crying out loud.

What are you even talking about? Democrats have universally condemned those ideas. Hell, even Republicans clearly don’t think those are great ideas, otherwise Rick Perry might have actually gotten some traction in his Presidential bid.

James has more than earned the right do whatever he wants to go, for whatever reason he chooses.

There’s a reason that Medicare for All has rapidly gained popularity in the last few years—the left keeps talking about it, and owing to the right’s dismantling of everything about Obamacare that was good,

I take your point and agree, but the only response to that is “so what?”

LOL

Dude likes to play at being Machiavellian too much do it I think.

FDR had complete and total control of a very Democratic Congress. Had he wanted to, he could have arm twisted them into doing it. But even he knew it was a highly risky proposition.

Not that the Democrats are going to get enough control to pass that kind of legislation, but even then, I think most people would view it as short sighted. It’s very hard to get the broader public behind making fundamental structural changes in our branches of government.

I (as one of the least #woke and least progressive commenters you’ll see commenting on the reg) am sitting here asking a woman who writes for Splinter to let a pinko commie like Kristen Gillibrand feel however the fuck she wants to feel about whatever incidents she has experienced.

While, to her credit, Gillibrand goes on to say she doesn’t “think the #MeToo movement has gone far enough,” that last answer feeds into the slippery narrative that sexual harassment is something undefinable—and an offense the strongest, most career-driven women withstand without breaking a sweat.

Are you stupid?

Counterpoint:

I mean, psssh. What kind of DINO fauxgressive are you, what requiring that we earn our moral authority by being equitable when we hold the reins of power?

I doubt the crops will sit there with no buyers.  People will buy.  They’ll buy less, but they’ll buy.  

I’ve always been clear on the moral obligation of white people to educate fellow white people. I only ask the question because you’re saying changing minds are necessary.