One factor is that there’s been a decades-long anti-union campaign by the corporate right to convince the american populace that unions are bad. It’s worked because, even at their height, unions were consolidated in only the most industrialized areas and so large swaths of the populace have never encountered the…

I don’t know why you’re surprised that people would hate paying money for invisible yet essential purposes. That’s the American way of anti-socialism, after all.

One of the victories of these early protesters was the forming of unions, which in turn benefitted all workers, not just the unionized ones.

There’s so much crazy happening that sometimes the craziest of the craziest goes unnoticed. For instance, does the rest of the nation outside of the Great Lakes region know that Trump is proposing to cut funding for the Great Lakes cleanup project ... BY 97 PERCENT??? http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/03/trump_g…

Gee, I wonder if there’s another country that likes to spend too much on its military and not enough on its people...

Making shitty apartments suck even more was how he got started working for his father. And kicking out the black people too.

But he’s just keeping his campaign promises! Specifically, the promises he made in back rooms and in exclusive private clubs, to billionaires and their lobbyists.

so you think holding everyone in the country back from better financial success is okay because you feel like being petty?

Why does seven become purple?

I wouldn’t say that the 20 million people who got health insurance for the first time, or the 15 million who found jobs, or the middle class workers who saw the biggest year-over-year earnings jump in history, were screwed by Obama.

There are degrees of right and wrong though. While Democrats certainly aren’t perfect, Obama and the Democrats did some positive things with healthcare, renewables, affordable housing, etc…

I beg to differ that human nature isn’t all that different that it was in 1932.

Ive already put in an application down at the asbestos mill.

Uh, aren’t you forgetting about all the auto factories and coal mines that will be reopening any day now?

They disagree about the precise nature of Jesus, same as Judaism, but the God all three worship is the God of Abraham. These morons are getting into pissing contests over the exact same imaginary friend.

He’s not saying democracy is a bad thing, you fucking dipshit. He’s saying that sometimes democracy produces unfortunate side effects, such as the fact that dipshit xenophobes get to spout off about their dipshit xenophobic beliefs in a public forum. I’m sure HamNo fully understands that this is the price we have to…

The founding fathers actually went to great lengths to try to design a system of government that *wasn’t* all that responsive to whims of uninformed populist mobs. The whole electoral college concept was based on the idea that your average man (which required owning property, because your vocal idiots at the tavern…

This is Bayonne. Work takes me to that town stuck in the 50s. So Bayonne is surrounded by water on three sides, and that highway at the north end is the NJ Turnpike extension to the Holland Tunnel. The highway is also the border between Bayonne and Jersey City. A very African American part of JC.

There’s only one important question here, and that’s whether the mosque could double to also provide... AFFORDABLE HOUSING

US Mail is the best! Did you guys know that it is the only form of communication that it is illegal for a government or private agent to read without a real court order from a real judge? Did you know that first-class mail will get pretty much anywhere in the US except Alaska and Hawaii, in three days of less?