Well, economic power needn’t be expressed in such a blunt manner. The sad problem is that too many of the wealthy who live in blue states are pleased as punch with all the Republican tax cuts and really don’t give a rat’s behind about anything else.
The problem with minority rule (which is the GOP’s current game plan) is that it becomes increasingly untenable as the minority veers further and further away from popular sentiment. For all the bitching that older people do about the millenials, there will come a time when we no longer are ruled by a generation that was raised as God’s Children in the Greatest Nation the World Has Ever Seen. When you cannot afford real estate well into your 30s, it becomes obvious that something is amiss with the American Dream.
While also taking away blue state city/state tax deductions resulting in us paying more in taxes while the Red states continue to take more and more federal money while contributing less in federal taxes… almost seems like retribution for not voting Republican
I think we need to move past this idea that they are operating out of ignorance.
They have absolutely thought about this question. They actively want the needs of the poor and minorities to go unfulfilled. That is a key, if not the key, part of their entire calculation.
This is not ignorance borne out of greed, it is active and conscious malice, as evidenced by decades of American conservative policy and philosophy.
Sigh. No, they are not. You Bernie haters are 10 times worse than the so-called Bernie Bros were (and who weren’t going to vote for Hillary regardless of whether Bernie was running or not, which is always ignored in your incessant attacks on Bernie supporters in these forums).
Republicans went out of their way with a bullshit argument to have Gorsuch in the Bench, you should expect him to go out his way with bullshit arguments to benefit republicans.
Also expect him to decide that republican presidents can do whatever they want and pardon themselves later.
It’s been proven by the Berniacs themselves who admitted it after the election as a badge of honor that a good number of them voted Rump. I hope they are destroyed.
Fair enough. I promise to not mention the past. I’ll let it go until I see anything untoward coming from Sanders or his always mild mannered boosters this time.
I thought this was photoshopped until I did some digging on the interwebs where I stumbled across an article in The Nation and … Holy Crap!
For Doug Henwood, who writes on economic matters and often contributes to The Nation, these photos of Gorsuch were like taking a bite out of Proust’s madeleine, returning him to his college days, when he was a member of the Party of the Right. Here Henwood provides some context that might help us understand Gorsuch’s youthful flirtation with anti-constitutional fascism:
“Seeing the pic of Gorsuch reading William F. Buckley’s Up From Liberalism decorating the Daily Mail story on his high school membership in a “Fascism Forever” club really took me back. I read Buckley’s book my senior year in high school, and it, along with Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom, was one of the things that turned me into a movement conservative. The fact that it was deeply unfashionable in the early 1970s was probably one of the things that drew me to it. So the moment I got to Yale as a freshman, I joined the Party of the Right, a highly curious institution with not many more than a dozen active members that was part of the Yale Political Union. (I wrote about the experience here and here.) Ideologically it was a mix of libertarians, neo-Confederates, and even monarchists, though most of the monarchists had recently split off into a Tory Party. Regardless of the flavor, though, the POR was contemptuous of the masses and had only a limited taste for democracy. To party members, Charles I’s execution speech is a sacred document. Moments before the deposed monarch’s head was chopped off, he declared the people deserved no “share in government,” because “that is nothing pertaining to them. A subject and a sovereign are clean different things”.”
“One of the ways that this contempt for the masses was expressed was through Nazi jokes. Right after I joined, I observed a senior member of the POR paging through the freshman facebook (the old paper kind), speculating on what the skull structure of the women in it said about their intelligence and character. (It must be admitted that skull science was a feature of American eugenics, which the Nazis learned a lot from.) We loved an old Yale song that almost no one sang anymore because it sounded too much like “Die Wacht am Rhein.” And when the German department sponsored a showing of Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will, we were practically the only ones who went. All this was accompanied by ironic smirks, but it was irony of the defensive kind, the sort that allowed you to indulge your violently elitist tendencies without taking responsibility for them. I’ve heard some Gorsuch apologists saying the “Fascism Forever” thing was just a joke, but I remember that sort of joking quite well. It’s not very funny.”
The club, we are told by one of Gorsuch’s prep school teachers, was “a total joke.” Right. Now who was it that said the use of jokes goes “beyond the production of pleasure” and “points the way to their future uses”? A joke is not about making one laugh but about signaling intent.
Again, those people weren’t going to vote for Hillary no matter what. Bernie didn’t cause them to leave the Democratic tent, they were only in it because they liked Bernie. And they were a small minority of Bernie supporters anyway (and a smaller percentage than the Hillary 2008 primary supporters than then voted for McCain).
Does it at all concern you that considering Bernie is currently the frontrunner, you’re effectively doing exactly what you accuse Bernie supporters of doing to Hillary?
