Did someone suggest we do that?

Is someone here in this thread suggesting that we should force the entire country further to the right and allow a dictator to return to power?

Did you maybe mean to reply to somebody else?

The solution to America’s problems won’t materialize if we magically criticize Donald Trump and the Republicans hard enough. There’s no magic words we’re going to say that are going to change those people. Instead, I would suggest that conversations about criticism of the opposition be separated from conversations about criticism of ‘our team’.

The Republicans aren’t to blame for the faults in Democrats, and the Democrats are not to blame for the faults in Republicans. The major political parties have plenty of faults and some of those faults they have in common, but they are distinctly different in a number of important ways.

The Republican party can’t help America improve. It’s not just that the system is rigged against the little guy it’s that Republicans don’t want to help the little guy. They want to squeeze him harder. The cruelty is the point.

The Democratic party can’t help America improve. The system is rigged against the little guy, but literally anybody who wants to try and help the little guy has to come here to this party to make that attempt because the party is at least hospitable to the concept.

The stumbling block of the left is not Donald Trump. He’s a symptom of our problem. Our problem is people like Nancy Pelosi and Diane Feinstein who are pathologically incapable of cooperating with anyone to the left of Reagan.

You don’t get Donald Trump if you promote Bernie. You don’t get Donald Trump if you have real primaries, let the people pick the candidates, and create a pipeline to put rising Stars into leadership positions.

I’m really worried that the deadweight at the top of the party is literally willing to sacrifice democracy to fascists rather than give one inch to progressives.

No response to "Democrats ran a shit candidate who didn’t even mention healthcare or taxing the rich, and never won a primary " involves the words ‘Trump’, ‘putin’, ‘nazi’, or ‘republicans’.

Donald Trump isn’t the problem. The problem isnt that donald trump is so attractive or that the voters are so stupid. That’s like blaming fire for drawing an audience or being mad that ice is slippery.

The problem is that Democrats don’t want to win if it means a progressive agenda. The function of the Democratic party is to mollify progressives and help ratchet us to the right by providing a fig leaf for the same owner class that does almost all the donating to politics and is literally driving the legislative and judicial agenda of the GOP.

This God fella and his pharaoh lacky need to be deposed it seems.

They are clearly unqualified for the important job of being in charge.

More like " if you are going to be a public nuisance, don’t be surprised when plucky adventurers show up to confront you."

Havin a baeg of baegs is just one of those things you do in the Midwest. Donchya know

I’m a straight man from the middle of nowhere, and reading this sounds to me like we have not made any progress in accepting the variety of ways that humans develop or accepting the need to make space in society for everyone to feel like there is no need to hide. It really does seem like we are, at least in some ways, going backwards.

When I was 12 years old I saw a documentary on the Discovery channel about klinefelter’s syndrome. The program was 45 minutes long but it briefly touched on various ways that the “third gender” had been expressed and incorporated into cultures around the world.

In this simple program from before the conversation about gender and sexual identity became a political cudgel to dehumanize a growing number of social groups, they didn’t discuss the politics at all. It was just the science.

It wasn’t controversial for '90’s era documentaries to simply acknowledge that the brain is just a part of the body like any other organ and can experience the same if not more variation that all of the other organs do.

Instead, the program seemed hopeful about this burgeoning new science of the mind and its ability to help us illuminate something we have known about for eons.

10 years later I read an MIT magazine article that reference brain scans of different people trying to identify gender identity versus sexual identity. They didn’t have a whole lot of conclusions but they found seven different clusters of data in the gender identity tests.

That seems to me a pretty strong indication that nature has at least a few varieties of human beyond man and woman, and although the science is encouraging…

It really shouldn’t require proof of anything to inspire people to want to be kind to each other. I don’t know that science can solve this, so maybe we have to find the faith and the hope to help it along.

I think the security issue is a non-issue, and there’s no way to “solve” it without creating greater problems and degrading other people’s rights.

The truth is, she doesn’t give a flying fuck about the consequences of her wealth getting. In some ways she is opposed to the right wing noise machine, but she is still acting as though she’s entitled to special treatment from the government including extra rights just because she’s rich.

She only decreased the number of private jet flights she was taking, and decrease the number of private jets she owned because of the public pressure. Her security is not more important than the environment.

She volunteered to take the heat off of Elon. I don’t know why she would do that, but she definitely volunteered for a lot of negative attention when she decided to target a private citizen doing something they are legally entitled to do and use her money to intimidate them out of exercising their rights.

That’s who she is deep down inside, entitled.

Maybe we all need to stop subsidizing the airline industry so that these rich assholes who want to fly around all the time for their convenience can pay the entire price themselves. Airlines and airports are publicly funded and utterly unsustainable without massive infusions of government cash and protection at every step along the way.

The fact that we pretend these airline companies and airports are in any way actual businesses Is just a way for the wealthy who get to fly all the time (private jets or not) to offload the cost of their convenient transportation onto the American people.