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David Frum with an excellent piece for The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/01/the-great-republican-revolt/419118/
Long read though.
Long read though.
The perfect prediction one is this, given how far back it was:
Came across this one. Chilling how he just predicted everything 6 years ago.
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Disappointing that she has gotten involved with all of this. She was previously a mildly sane voice on the right (gun issues aside).
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David Frum with an excellent piece for The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/01/the-great-republican-revolt/419118/
Long read though.
Since 1984, nearly every Democratic presidential-primary race has ended as a contest between a “wine track” candidate who appealed to professionals (Gary Hart, Michael Dukakis, Paul Tsongas, Bill Bradley, and Barack Obama) and a “beer track” candidate who mobilized the remains of the old industrial working class (Walter Mondale, Dick Gephardt, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Hillary Clinton).
For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia
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Just in case we need to rise up against a tyrannical government.New law will allow open carry of knives, swords in Texas
http://kxan.com/2017/07/13/new-law-will-allow-open-carry-of-knives-swords-in-texas/
Gangs of Texas battle rumbles coming to a town near you!New law will allow open carry of knives, swords in Texas
http://kxan.com/2017/07/13/new-law-will-allow-open-carry-of-knives-swords-in-texas/
I thought they had small willies in Texas for a moment.Just in case we need to rise up against a tyrannical government.
PC gone mad, freedom under attack, etc.THE CRIMINALIZATION OF political speech and activism against Israel has become one of the gravest threats to free speech in the West. In France, activists have been arrested and prosecuted for wearing T-shirts advocating a boycott of Israel. The U.K. has enacted a series of measures designed to outlaw such activism. In the U.S., governors compete with one another over who can implement the most extreme regulations to bar businesses from participating in any boycotts aimed even at Israeli settlements, which the world regards as illegal. On U.S. campuses, punishment of pro-Palestinian students for expressing criticisms of Israel is so commonplace that the Center for Constitutional Rights refers to it as “the Palestine Exception” to free speech.
But now, a group of 43 senators — 29 Republicans and 14 Democrats — wants to implement a law that would make it a felony for Americans to support the international boycott against Israel, which was launched in protest of that country’s decades-old occupation of Palestine. The two primary sponsors of the bill are Democrat Ben Cardin of Maryland and Republican Rob Portman of Ohio. Perhaps the most shocking aspect is the punishment: Anyone guilty of violating the prohibitions will face a minimum civil penalty of $250,000 and a maximum criminal penalty of $1 million and 20 years in prison.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/...n-pennsylvania.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=curAfter years of Tea Party demands for smaller government, Republicans are now pushing up against a growing consensus that the government should guarantee health insurance. A Pew survey in January found that 60 percent of Americans believe the federal government should be responsible for ensuring that all Americans have health coverage. That was up from 51 percent last year, and the highest in nearly a decade.
The belief held even among many Republicans: 52 percent of those making below $30,000 a year said the federal government has a responsibility to ensure health coverage, a huge jump from 31 percent last year. And 34 percent of Republicans who make between $30,000 and about $75,000 endorsed that view, up from 14 percent last year.
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There has been an increase in the percentage of Republicans and Democrats saying that Medicaid is important for them and their families; between February and July the percentage of Republicans saying so had increased 10 points, to 53 percent.
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Mr. Greenberg said the growing belief that the government should make sure people have health coverage was less an outbreak of compassion than a matter of affordability. In focus groups he conducted, Trump voters said they wanted the president and Congress to lower their health insurance premiums; they did not want to lose the Affordable Care Act’s protections against insurers charging more to people with pre-existing conditions, or denying coverage of basic health benefits.
Long may that trend continue.
If you ask voters honestly which means including costs and other consequences, the results look very different. Obviously everybody likes a free lunch. Paying for it? Not so much. That's why the ACA is constructed in a way to hide the costs.Long may that trend continue.
Now if we can get people to stop voting against their own interests like idiots.
Not very different.If you ask voters honestly which means including costs and other consequences, the results look very different. Obviously everybody likes a free lunch. Paying for it? Not so much. That's why the ACA is constructed in a way to hide the costs.
Obama might have something to do with it.“I can’t even remember why I opposed it,” said Patrick Murphy, who owns Bagel Barrel, on a quaint and bustling street near Mr. Brahin’s law office here in Doylestown.
If you point out to people honestly that the taxes will take the place of the premiums and deductibles they are currently paying, I'd imagine they'd still support it.If you ask voters honestly which means including costs and other consequences, the results look very different. Obviously everybody likes a free lunch. Paying for it? Not so much. That's why the ACA is constructed in a way to hide the costs.
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