While we still disagree, I understand and respect your perspective.
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Gangnam style has ten times as many views
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People actively sought out Gangnam style…
Up to 12% now, apparently. And 16% in Utah (warning, reason.com link).
I might vote for him if I lived there, even though I disagree with lots of his positions. I imagine he’s still popular in NM, too.
Presuming he can beat John McAfee, of course.
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How many actual members of the modern GOP are currently beating the drums for Vince Foster, or claiming that Hillary wants to impose sharia on the USA? I’ll bet you have to dig pretty deep into the comboxes at Breitbart or Free Republic to find more than, say, two.
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It seems the American people don’t realize that they are voting by not voting thus contributing to the candidates who win each party’s nomination. So we are getting the candidates we deserve.
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I’m not going to go spending time collecting a count, but there’s no need to go dredging Breitbart or Free Republic. The most watched news channel in America’s has pumped both, you can find a surprising number of Congressmen beating the drum for Sharia fear-mongering if you care to look, and the man with the largest bullhorn in America to Republicans, Donald Trump, presumptive presidential candidate of the GOP, has harped on Sharia and Vince Foster ensuring it’s in the collective awareness of the base.
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Yeah. Of people who actually intended to watch it. This is 213 millions rolls.
Clinton doesn’t seem to be putting it front an center in her campaign (possibly because campaign experts who actually know what they are talking about say not too, and possibly they are correct, and that is very sad), but her website is full of policy suggestions. Many of them are going in the same direction as Sanders, but half as far with a lot more detail.
Oh, and actually passing any of that is extremely dependent on taking control of the house and senate from the republicans. Fail at that and none of that gets done, regardless of the president.
IMO the best way for Sanders to affect change is to help pull the house and senate and state governments left. Get all those younger voters voting in those primaries and generals.
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You know the drill…so here are my alternates:
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You mean, refuse to work with him and automatically fight against anything he suggests?
Nah, it’ll never happen. They’re too professional and patriotic to refuse to do the job they were elected to do, and paid to do.
/s
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I respect you and your posts, but I’d like to remind you that some of us have weathered a lot of the same storms over the same decades as Hillary Clinton and thus have a more nuanced understanding of the kinds of compromises she’s had to make to stay standing. It’s a bit of a kick in the gut to ME personally when you write mean-spirited things about a woman who has had to fight every single day, because that’s what I’ve had to do, too, in a different sector.
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Sounds good to me!
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Does that make her a good person worthy of our respect and support simply because she had to fight through a lot of shit? I doubt it. Not everyone who gets put through life’s troubles comes out a wonderful butterfly.
Warning: <a href=“http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/05/24/donald-trump-foster-death-tapper-lead-tell.cnn"target="_blank”>auto play Trump video. Like it or not, he fits your description, being the GOP candidate for president, and all that.
Of course he walked it back a few days later, but you can bet good money he mentioned it only to get it back into the GOP consciousness.
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I certainly respect you and your posts too, and I thank you for the reminder. I of course do not mean to demean the fighting that women have to do every single day. My sarcasm was aimed at her policies and the corrupt system(s) that helped get her where she is, and at those supporters of hers who don’t seem bothered by that. I have very little faith that Clinton herself has a nuanced understanding (let alone genuine, working concern) for the compromises and worse that so many others have had to make to stay standing, and to keep going – and those others are not just women of color and poor white women, but basically anyone who’s not up in the .001% that she and Mr. Clinton have scrabbled and compromised their way into. I think that Sanders, OTOH, does have that nuanced understanding, and further, that he works primarily on the basis of it.
And it seems important to add, while also trying not to be nitpicky, that I wasn’t saying something mean-spirited about HER; it was about her supporters, and in particular, those who castigate supporters of Sanders for not pledging their determination to fall in line and start fighting for Clinton immediately. No thanks. I’m still mourning the apparent loss of the first presidential candidate with a solid fighting chance and widespread popularity that I’ve felt genuinely excited and hopeful about since like, forever. I think U.S. voters blew a real chance to turn things around when they gave Clinton the nom (not that she didn’t also, apparently, have some shenanagins-like help along the way, which has also been infuriating).
So yeah, thanks again for the reminder, and as I calm down I’m sure I’ll temper my occasional sarcasm accordingly. It does seems tho that there’s some insensitivity coming from both sides.
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