No.  The reasons Republicans beat the Dems is BECAUSE they nominate those who will be red meat for their base even if it means a short term loss.  That was their strategy all through the nineties and early 2000's and look what it has gotten them-undivided control of the Federal government and most of the states. (The…

That may be true to a certain extent for Congressional seats, but the near annihilation of the Democratic party at the state legislative and gubernatorial level has been unprecedented in the last 20 years.

Only if he doesn’t vote.

The racism and authoritarianism we are seeing come to the surface isn’t new. It’s always been here, even since the country’s founding-but now there’s no one pushing back. The Democrats spent decades running away from who their base should be and now they don’t really have one anymore. It’s what you get when you have…

You’ve got a better explanation for the evisceration of the Democrats as a national party? Over almost forty years now, the Democrats have been running away from what should be their base while the Republicans have been cultivating theirs. The Obama campaign built a coalition that could have been the beginning of…

You seem pretty sure I didn’t vote in the midterms. You might want to examine your assumptions.

It was his failure to create any sort of momentum out of his great campaigning prowess. The emblematic failure to me was the way the Republicans stole a march on him during the ACA debates. The Republicans committed enormous effort riling up their base against it during Congressional recesses, while the Democrats were…

He was a decent man who was in over his head. He went to a knife fight thinking it was a debating society.

He certainly sucked at any kind of party leadership.

I love the bad guys ( Tagawa and Sewell) but the rest of the characters are pretty meh. It does do a really good job of (as the VFX guy in the video put it) showing a history that never happened and making it feel real so, characters I don’t give a shit about not withstanding, I still like it a lot.

Or if she had campaigned in Wisconsin.

I know it’s sad, but you truly are too good for this world.

She, you, and I got older.

No, wait. I was wrong about you. You aren’t an idiot-you’re fucking Ghandi, waiting in righteous patience until everyone realizes how wrong they are about you and comes crawling to ask your forgiveness.

If you weren’t an idiot, you probably could voice an opinion without being called an idiot.  Fuck off.

Jesus Christ, I am getting old.

The Congress budgeted the same amount of money to the EPA this year as they did last year, yet it’s workforce is 8% smaller and it’s enforcement actions have dropped dramatically. The law requires the agency to have to have 200 investigators on staff, but they currently only have 140. Why? A hiring freeze ordered by…

I wasn’t describing how the budget works. I was describing how the bureaucracy works. The Congress budgeted the same amount of money to the EPA this year as they did last year, yet it’s workforce is 8% smaller and it’s enforcement actions have dropped dramatically. The law requires the agency to have to have 200…

Kind of makes me glad that I haven’t paid any attention to him at all during that 10 years before now, so I can go on not paying him any mind with a clear conscience. Though you could make the point that paying him enough attention at this point to make an internet comment about him means I am paying him the attention…

True, but sadly those who do pay are only technically supporting the artists.