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The problem, she admits, is “we can’t say, ‘Don’t worry, white people, you’ll be okay and you’ll get to run everything forever!’ ”
Again it's racially motivated, no mention of policies.
It will absorb even figures who might prefer not to talk much about race.
God knows that's all you want to talk about.
In the 2020 primary, however, Sanders endorsed decriminalizing unauthorized border entry and providing public health insurance to unauthorized immigrants.
Unbelievable.
the browning of America
Unless you're a racist, it should literally mean nothing.
The human mind is exquisitely tuned to group affiliation and group difference.
Only if they are taught to be.
we naturally assume ourselves in competition with other groups.
And who is literally teaching people that?
Obama’s presidency was an example of the younger, more diverse coalition taking power;
And it's all about power to this guy. Group politics and power they have.
explanatory news organization Vox,
Leftist propaganda rag.
lot of us really do want to improve the functioning of democracy—but
To him that means "control other people."
And, obviously, my views on those questions are rational, judicious, disinterested, and objectively correct.
I assume he's joking. He doesn't believe in objective reality, and does not know how to be rational.
Democrats believed 44 percent of Republicans earned over $250,000 a year; it’s actually 2 percent.
They've been soaked in Marxist ideas of class-warfare.
Republicans believed that 38 percent of Democrats were gay, lesbian, or bisexual; the correct answer is about 6 percent.
14% in 2024
To post that article on Facebook is to make a statement about who you are, who your group is, and, just as important, who is excluded.
Or maybe you just found it interesting?
They spit back an expression of your personality, alongside the group you belong to,
Or maybe they express something that distinguishes you from others, rather than grouping with them? Ever think of that, collectivist-boy?
In the absence of social media and audience analytics, I doubt that newsrooms run by white men would’ve devoted blanket coverage to the events in Ferguson, Missouri, and their aftermath.
Right, because you're a racist.
When I was in high school, I began smoking pot.
There's a shocker.
over a viral video in which students from Covington Catholic High School wearing MAGA hats appeared to harass Nathan Phillips, a Native American elder playing a drum.
He harrassed them!
Institutional donors are corrupting.
No, they've been corrupted by a gov't with too much power, which extorts them and takes bribes.
The Garland affair remains an open wound to liberals, an example of how Republicans will stop at nothing to gain and retain power.
As if the same can't be said about Dems.
paralysis in Congress are making the Court’s judgments more consequential, as when the Court throws out a bill or invalidates a program; legislators rarely have the bipartisan consensus or partisan power to revisit the legislation and answer the Court through modifications.
If only Congress were truly paralyzed!
What they find is that the Democratic Party is a diverse collection of interest groups held together by policy goals, while the Republican Party is built atop a more united base that finds commonality in more abstract, ideological commitments.
Gee, how insightful.
long-standing media organizations steeped in the traditions and practices of objective journalism.
That's hilarious. lol
Conservatives protest that the media is liberally biased, so they had no choice but to build their alternative network.
And that is true.
The New York Times and ABC News fear a liberal reputation—they want to be understood as neutral arbiters of truth—and reporting oppositionally and inconveniently on the Democratic Party is both part of the self-identity and the business model.
Ridiculous.
because the mainstream media and academia actually aren’t that liberal, because they mostly do put truth-seeking ahead of partisanship,
What a joke.
Democrats rely on a diversity of information sources that discipline their flights of fancy,
Laughable notion.
Republicans rely on a narrower set of media institutions that propel their polarization.
True enough.
If America was a democracy, Democrats would control the House, the Senate, the White House, and, through those victories, a commanding majority on the Supreme Court. Their weakness is the result of geography, not popularity.
Thank the Founders it's not a Democracy !
America, he said, was built atop the insight that “free government was only suitable and sustainable for a religious people.”
Nonsense.
America’s modern run of polarization has its roots in the civil rights era, in the Democratic Party choosing to embrace racial equality and the Republican Party providing a home to white backlash.
lol Oh really? Again it's all about race with this guy.
at less cost to the American people and the services they depend on.
His main cncern no doubt.
as the unemployment rate rises, the federal government can automatically absorb more state Medicaid costs, boost unemployment and food stamp spending, and begin lowering payroll taxes or expanding Social Security checks.
And there it is.
At the presidential level, it would simply mean doing away with the archaic electoral college.
lol Of course.
the National Interstate Popular Vote Compact is an agreement by states to throw their electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the popular vote. It would take legal force the moment states representing a 270-vote majority in the electoral college sign it—and so far, the states that have joined represent 196 electoral votes, which is more than 70 percent of the way there.
Ironically, they want to overthrow the will of their own voters in the name of "democracy." So retarded.
But they’re not. What they know is that their roads aren’t getting fixed, their jobs aren’t coming back, and Washington doesn’t seem to be doing anything to help them.
And that's what he thinks gov't is for, of course.
I choose governance, in part because I trust the American people to ultimately look out for their own interests.
Statist fool.
There is no less dysfunctional politics without a less dysfunctional GOP, and the path to a less dysfunctional GOP is forcing the party to reach beyond the ethnonationalist coalition Trump rode to victory.
This guy is literally blind to the idea of principled thought.
Non-Hispanic Whites.”
Who declared Hispanics to be whites?
The threat to the United States of America has always been disunity.
Enforce the Constitution and it wouldn't matter.
Epps and Sitaraman suggest rebuilding the Supreme Court so it has fifteen justices: each party gets to appoint five, and then the ten partisan justices must unanimously appoint the remaining five. Until all fifteen are agreed upon, the Court wouldn’t be able to hear cases.
Preposterous.
The point of this book is that we all inhabit a larger context that shapes our actions.
Collectivism.
Once we recognize that we exist amid an omnipresent conspiracy to manipulate our identities, we can begin the hard work of fashioning our environment to shape and strengthen the identities we want to inhabit.
Is that his version of "think independently?"
My point is not that we should all go informationally Galt.
A Rand reference from this guy. So inappropriate.
The search for a static answer will always be folly.
Not so.
There is no one best way for the system to work.
Wrong again.
If I’ve done my job well, this book will offer a model that helps make sense of an era in American politics that can seem senseless.”
Utter fail.
insurrection,
lol
mused about injecting Americans with bleach,
And this guy thinks he's a journalist. Pathetic.
“We are so locked into our political identities that there is virtually no candidate, no information, no condition, that can force us to change our minds.
Again, he seems to not grasp the idea of self-initiated autonomous individual thought.
I’d written at length about the way Republicans had radicalized further and faster than the Democrats.
Ha! Such crap. Antifa. BLM. Woke. Left, Left, Left.
