Yeah, but it’s fucking Australia

Ugh. I think we’re going to need space for a while first. I seriously get sick to my stomach thinking about trying to engage opposing viewpoints if the political climate is like this.

I am not trying to downplay economic policy, but it is not a single determining factor. My comment about Farage (and Trump) is that they are loud voices and they are not relying on dog-whistle. They are overt. The difference is relevant and the overt being considered acceptable is worse.

I agree with you. My only point was that even if he were trolling, it adds up to the same thing as if he is sincere. He’s doing real damage. Seriously, you’ve articulated what I’m trying to say (and the article says) very clearly.

I would have to argue that the overton window had already shrunk under 12 years under republican presidents (after a very brief window with a democratic president). Obama ran right of center on some economic issues, but was responding to a serious recession and no assurance that he would have a congress that he could…

They are also being told by the leader of their movement that violence toward dissenting views is an appropriate response.

I think that blaming a politician who has been out of office for a decade and a half is a stretch. You’d have to spread it out, if its over that timeline. Bush (2), for instance, bears more blame for how the US treated different conflicts in Muslim-majority countries as if they were the same. There was also a lot of…

They were there, but they were in storage. He provided fertile ground.

By that point, will it be worth the seeds of violence and bigotry that he’s sown?

I really don’t like how much I think you’re prediction will bear out.

This is why it doesn’t even matter if we feel like Trump is just trolling everyone. He is making our country worse. Terrible people are no longer ashamed of themselves.

You’ve had good fortune, but if you’d bought in another area, you might still be under water. I appreciate that you bought at the right time and place (I did too), but it would be naive to assume that your decision works everywhere.

Federal or overall?

Well, I don’t think it’s a great idea, but you can get an FHA mortgage with 3.5% down. If you can’t cobble together $17,500 on your own, you really shouldn’t buy a house.

Unless you’re trying to buy in an inflated market, in which case, you’re throwing money away by not renting. Particularly given the additional costs of home ownership: transactional costs of buying/selling, maintainence, taxes, etc.

I was suggesting that the definition is broader. Again, I think that he made a poor word choice.

So you’re implying that he can’t tell the difference between a literal government imposed geographical segregation of a portion of the population and the portion of black America who live in low-income urban situations?

Do you feel better that Sanders is using Eric Garner’s daughter as a campaign surrogate?

That’s really fortunate and what I would do if my job had that kind of cycle. My job is usually hurt fastest when the market starts to fall. 2008 was particularly rough, because it’s also tied to building.

They ask if you’re from New York, if that’s what they think. (Not joking)