Not the left, Democrats. Not the same thing at all. And yes, they are engaging in McCarthyism. Some on the left, no doubt, are as well, while some on the left are criticizing them for it.
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Not the left, Democrats. Not the same thing at all. And yes, they are engaging in McCarthyism. Some on the left, no doubt, are as well, while some on the left are criticizing them for it.
Liberals seem to be the ones denying reality when they try to paper over issues like the hollowed-out towns across rural America, the innumerable jobs exported abroad for the last two and a half decades (dealing body blow after body blow to organized labor), an AIDS level opiate epidemic that has reduced life…
Sounds good, I'm curious as well!
Or, you know, maybe there is something to it…
It's pretty simple really. Quasi-market-based systems that assume private insurance company profits as an essential part of the system tend to suck, especially from the perspective of being affordable and covering everybody.
Pennsylvania has potato chips cooked in lard at the gas station, so they're alright in my book.
Is that like a Genghis Khan thing? I don't think Franklin committed enough genocide to make that true.
What is your understanding of this:
Probably so!
Meanwhile, they should be listening to (or reading) Thomas Frank's Listen, Liberal, which posits that maybe they don't just need to be told they're right all the time.
I always assume these things are just part of a vast right-wing conspiracy.
So they took out an ad to tell people that they tell the truth?
Pilsner Urkel: "Did I Brew That?!"
OK, let's assume for the moment that the role is that of a functionary and elevating Ellison over Perez would have been largely of symbolic importance. The fact that they still couldn't bring themselves to do it, when they knew there would be backlash if they didn't, speaks volumes, none of it good.
Perez has a miserable bank-friendly record at DOJ and Labor and is widely perceived as an establishment loyalist above all (hence his support for the TPP under Obama). More to the point, if he's the same as Ellison, then why would they elevate him in a move that would be guaranteed to turn off a huge portion of what…
I don't know. I'm not energized. I'm repulsed. I want to vomit.
Keith Ellison, who was widely understood to represent the Bernie Sanders wing of the party.
I had high hopes but now I'm not sure they are even worth saving. Far from being a check on the rapacious interests behind the mainstream Republican Party, they've been complicit in empowering them at the expense of the American people. Today was an opportunity to show that they understood where they went wrong and…