But, is it wrong that I’m smiling?
emjayay, you keep asking the same question regarding your problem with comment formatting.
No one else is having this problem (based on reading most of the comments here over the course of a day). Therefore, it can only be something related to your particular configuration.
We (as ordinary users) really have no way to diagnose your problem, hence you get no replies.
I’m not at all a fan of this new commenting system. I think you lose a lot in not being able to see threaded comments - this bouncing around to see replies distracts from the conversation.
But it does work.
Makers versus Takers may just be the ultimate example of right-wing projection.
The plutocrats running the show on that side are the perfect example of “Takers” - they are unable and unwilling to actually “Make” anything other than their own ill-gotten gains.
If we could only get that on a bumpersticker…
I take no joy in saying this, and feel no sense of triumph at having scored. No two-party democracy can exist when one of the parties is like this.
You can ask those questions all you want. You will not get any answers from republicans. They will simply divert and call you socialist or something.
I don’t disagree with the general thrust here, but this article contains a number of phrases like “[Republicans] need to explain…”.
No, they don’t. They could need to explain, if they were made to need to explain, but at the moment they don’t need to explain. They need to be re-elected, and they can still accomplish that goal in too many close districts by trashing Obamacare without any corresponding need to say what they’d do beyond repeal.
Democrats, especially those of us who follow politics on the internets, are always saying things like “you can’t call yourself tough on terrorism and a defender of American security, and then launch a war that provokes terrorist insurgencies and kills thousands of American troops! You can’t do that!” But of course they can do that. They just did. And then they did ten more things they “can’t do.”
The better question is, can we bring ourselves to stop them when they do all those things they can’t do?