Christ, that’s disgusting (what Luntz said). I’m the daughter of an immigrant mom and an American dad with family who farms grain and cattle all over the midwest and am no stranger to that “real America” Fox touts so fervently. It’s frustrating because in so many ways (where it isn’t just straight-up coded racism)…

Yeah, that’s a good point. But how can a candidate counteract the bad-faith of the ideologically illiterate voting base, and its apologizers in our mainstream press, without skewing everything into packaged sound bites? (People like Sanders’ sincerity, and I do like him too, but I find him even vaguer than Warren when…

Oh I totally agree, hope I didn’t sound dismissive of folks native to the coasts. It’s just that certain demographics in the Midwest do an awful lot to drive out their best and brightest young folks and then seem bewildered and angry when urban areas on the coasts thrive by absorbing them all.

Christ, that’s classic. (Not to even mention the various faculty members who exhibit similar patterns with colleagues male and female.)

To be scrupulously fair, I’m not sure he actually used the word “authentic”, but his point seemed to be that Warren working-class voters are somehow a less ... valid reflection of the working class because she also wins more votes from the higher-earning classes.

LOL I think I had the same kid in my class. We all have.

Also, where do they think a large number of us who now live on the urban coasts grew up? My neighborhood on the ocean in Maine is filled with midwesterners who either had to leave to seek job opportunities elsewhere or were forced to leave by intolerant religious families. I didn’t learn my progressive views on the…

Also: as though anyone lying bleeding in the street after being run over by a truck is going to have the facility to comparison shop for ambulances. It’s really an insane point to insist on, but it plays into the “freedom” rhetoric of the lower-info Republican voters.

I was just chatting with someone else around here about how surprisingly filled with right-wing commenters the Intercept is these days, as one  instance.

I’m a dual national German-American and I can assure you that cost of living indices come out higher for the US than Germany. Google around and you will find ample current data.

God yes!

My fave was their latest column by a Princeton professor who decreed that Warren’s working-class supporters are less authentic than Sanders’.

The hard part is convincing Americans that short-term you will suffer financially in order to benefit long-term.

Contingent on the “taxes are bad” rhetoric is the deeper Republican belief that “government is BAD!” — taxes are bad only because it’s government who wants them from you. Subsidizing Walmart’s criminal profit reliance on government assistance for its employees, on the other hand, is great because Capital and Job…

Yes, and for that measly 5% they get:

Not just Republicans — she was stridently opposed by Obama’s own Wall Street appointees.

My hope is that, bad as it was, this debacle with Warren will play out with some positives to Native American communities in the end. On her “apology tour” speaking to tribal councils, Warren pledged her support and has already co-sponsored legislation to address some of the worst issues with our governmental system…

Yes! I agreed with this article, which highlights the existence of a contingent of leftie pundits whose resentment for mainstream liberals — and the weird misogyny that often accompanies this stance — overshadows their intellectual reason at times, as you point out. Striking a blow at wine-drinking “Karens” (Democratic…

But Warren, now a frontrunner, will have to come up with a better answer to the question of how to pay for Medicare for All

Your balls might want to do a little more actual reading.