I think that’s the way it would work. You have the right to opt out, but you’d be compelled to negotiate your own salary and benefits. You have absolutely no claim to what the union negotiates.

I don’t have a problem with religion; rather, I have many problems with the sect of a religion that doesn’t incorporate the science, empiricism and skepticism of the Enlightenment into an intellectually wholesome belief system.

Yeah, watching that clip is a bit uncanny, actually.

Oprah and Trump have been playing this game for 30 years. Here’s a clip from 1988.

Yes, racism in the US goes back centuries.

I’m not justifying racism in any way, shape or form. Racism is horrible. Full stop.

No, it really isn’t. The Chinese diaspora has a very long history in Africa. Stereotypical depictions of Africans in China go back centuries.

Racism is a horrible human condition that has spanned every micro-region of the globe for millennia.

If that’s the case, then progressives shouldn’t have a hard time fielding solid candidates (either Democrat or Green) and winning in places like West Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin, Florida, and Pennsylvania in 2018.

Because she’s trying to burnish her progressive credentials heading into 2020.

Since around 30%-40% of the country will never, ever vote Democrat based on abortion alone, Democrats cannot take a majority of congress- let alone the White House- without classic liberals and centrists.

The right wing essentially considers anyone with a passport to be liberal.

McArdle is so tone deaf that she makes David Brooks look like Arturo Toscanini.

When I was a kid, people used to say that things would get better once the 60's generation (boomers) came to power. Now, some of the most conservative members of the House are Gen X.

Yeah...with 37% of US households subscribed to Netflix, and 54% to Amazon Prime, Americans are likely more pacified than they’ve ever been.  

“we will almost definitely spend more government money this year than Switzerland,..”

We’re talking about the alt-right, not Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, Rick Perry, Oren Hatch, or Mitt Romney, etc...

Well, then perhaps he shouldn’t be deported. His lawyer likely has a better handle on the details than I do.

Household income, not individual.

Yeah, I think people need to be accurate here.