it's about character. Character matters for a lifetime appointment. We can't get rid of him once he's seated. And he will have mind numbing amounts of power. He's basically got Veto power on any law that comes before him. He doesn't have to justify himself either. Clarence Thomas, for example, has written one opinion in his entire time on the bench.
It's about risk. Everything I know about the man tells me I don't want him in charge of my fate. There's plenty more like him that are much, much less risky. They're not going to side with the mega corps 100% of the time against me. They might even have some basic understanding of what my life is like. And they're not as likely to be actively hostile. Again, I have to go on the evidence I have when making a decision. We all do. The evidence tells me that this guy is no friend of mine, and that he's going to use his power to enrich himself and his friends at my expense. Just like those jocks who bullied me did.
and I voted for Bernie in the primary. Waited in line 2 hours for that. I'm aware our system is corrupt, but it's all we have. We're not Gods. I can't put a fire out with one sweep of my hand. I have to start somewhere.
He's past the appointee stage. His background check found some dubious things in his youth and they were ignored. The results are what you see. At this point we're into an actual investigation of rape accusations. Or we would have been if the President himself hadn't limited the scope of the investigation so that nobody concerned could be interviewed.
The Supreme Court very narrowly upheld the law regarding pre-existing conditions (the ACA, aka "Obamacare"). There's another challenge that President Trump and his administration are allowing to go through. It will eventually go to the SCOTUS. When it does we go back to the old system of being denied healthcare. Ever had acne medicine prescribed? Congratulations, you just won a lifetime of no care for skin cancer treatments because of your "cancerous lesions". Kavaughn will vote against it.
People don't realize this but the SCOTUS has effective Veto power over any law in America. All they have to do is declare it unconstitutional. In the past Americans had zero work safety and wage protections because one of the courts ruled that you should be able to enter into any kind of contract you want no matter how broken and one sided it was. The era was named after the judge who rammed it through, and it sucked. Kavaughn is one of those guys. He believes exactly that. Prepare to get screwed.
The media doesn't talk about this stuff because, well, the media is owned by billionaires and they would like very much to not pay taxes or for your healthcare. The media has a slight left wing bias on social issue, but it's hard right on economics.
I'm surprised you didn't hear, it was kind of a big deal. They still exist (we couldn't kill them completely) but they only get a vote in round 2, and even then lost some power. And round 2 hasn't happened in 30 years.
The Dems have their problems, but I think they're salvagable. There's some folks who refuse corporate PAC money. Quite a bit actually. Google "Justice Democrats". They also support populist ideas like Universal healthcare, free college, the "New New Deal", etc.
The Republicans talk a good game but when it's time to put up they take away protections for pre-existing conditions, cut infrastructure spending for tax cuts and cut federal funding to colleges. You can argue the Dems will do the same thing, but they've never been given the chance. They had 2 years during which they spent all their political capital on healthcare reform and did that while rebuilding the economy after the biggest crash since the Great Depression. Give them a super majority of Bernie Bros & Gals and a matching president if you want to see what the left can do for America.
I can't name a single GOP member who isn't bought and paid for. Seriously, show me one that refuses corporate PAC money. Just one. I'll wait. Meanwhile the Dems have a wing (google "Justice Democrats") for whom that is a requirement of admission.
The Dems are awful. The GOP is awful. But there's something I think we can salvage in the Dems. I base that on evidence and voting records. I have no such evidence for the GOP. They're only goal is to serve their donors and I have no hard evidence to indicate otherwise. This is a science forum. I expect evidence. As the saying goes, picts or it didn't happen.
and his right wing politics and Wallstreet Deregulation caused the 2008 market crash (he's the one that started letting Mainstreet & Wallstreet banks mix, Bush continued it and that's what got us Credit Default Swaps).
So yeah, as a card carrying Democrat I wouldn't mind in the slightest if Clinton had been taken down. But as a right wing establishment Dem he was propped up by the Mega corps to do their bidding. Just like this Kavanaugh guy.
You just compared a homosexual relationship between two consenting adults to accusations of sexual assault. Those aren't even a little bit alike. That's not a shoe on the other foot. Kavanaugh is accused of something that virtually everyone agrees is wrong. Outside of evangelicals the exact opposite is true for homosexuality.
at this point. It was sold to the public as an actual investigation. Based on what little we know they didn't. They didn't interview the accused or the accuser. What kind of investigation is that? A whitewash, that's what.
Spend some time on WaPo & the NY Times. There are several articles where his former classmates were interviewed. They've discussed how several times he was black out drunk. Go read the book his friend Mark Judge wrote.
And no, this isn't the end of the world, but it is one more nail in a coffin. People really don't get what's going on here. We're slipping back into a gilded age. Why can't folks see how bad things were just 50-100 years ago, how bad they are in large parts of the world, and understand that it _can_ happen here. I just don't get it. We all fought so hard for decent pay, worker safety, healthcare and there are very wealthy people who are not content with being just very wealthy and would like very much to not have to pay for us to have these things. Why can't folks understand that? There's a class war on, and we're losing.
Kavanaugh is not a nice person. He's a pretty jock who was born on 3rd base and acts like he hit a triple. I'm a nerd. I was bullied. A lot. Kavanaugh is the kind of guy who did the bullying. There's something deeply ironic about a site full of real nerds coming to the defense of a jock.
If this was just about false accusations that'd be one thing. But then there's his voting record, which is entirely pro-corporate and anti-worker. There's the numerous examples of perjury during his confirmation testimony (much of it unrelated to the accusations). There's his quiet frankly belligerent testimony that made him look unhinged.
What we have here is a bunch of folks rushing to his defense not because they think he should be seated, but because their emotions tell them men are getting cheated. Calm down for a moment and ask yourself, how is this man's decisions going to affect my life? If you make under $300k/yr the answers don't bode well for you.
or even a real investigation. That's what happened. Let the FBI work without the president interfering and we'll talk.
What little we do know shows why the GOP is fighting so hard against this. We've got 3-4 accusers (one of them is too afraid to step forward and is anonymous). We've got multiple corroborating reports from people who knew him at the time. He's perjured himself multiple times (including about things unrelated to the assaults).
If I submitted an app to 7-11 with this many holes in my background check I'd be turned down, but somehow we're going to put a guy in one of if not the most powerful positions with this on his record?
Something ain't right. He's being rammed through by the mega corps and mark my words, we're going to regret it. We're gonna miss Roe v Wade guys, because when this guy gets done gutting worker protections we're all gonna wish we were aborted.
corroborating it. Have you not been paying attention? Tons of people who knew him back then have come forward. His buddy wrote a book with a thinly veiled reference to Kavanaugh where they discussed spiking punch. His calendar his references to beer enemas and 3 ways. He has 3 public accusers and 1 that's hanging back out of fear of reprisals.
A SCOTUS nominee has more power than a US President. They decide what laws are constitutional. They make our gov't what it is. They must be completely beyond reproach. This guy wouldn't pass a background check for a 7-11 at this point. And that's before we talk about the numerous instances of perjury. There's no way in hell he should be seated.
because the Dems would have done a background check and found the accusations, just like the GOP did. The They knew about Kavanaugh history and didn't care. GOP went forward anyway because that's how little they think of the voting public. They're oligarchs. You and I will do as we are told.
he's accused of sexual assault. There's a difference. We're about to seat a guy with repeated accusations that several people are corroborating with little investigation. If you don't think that's a problem then, well, I don't know what to tell you except "Party before Country".
to a lifetime appointment in the most powerful seat in the land (SCOTUS has final say on all laws, they're essentially above the law if they choose to be) when the majority of Americans oppose his nomination and can list good reasons why (perjury even before the assault allegations, anti-work/pro-corporation bias, angry & off-kilter testimony, etc, etc)?
From the polls it seem the American people have made their desires known and the aristocracy is determined to ram this guy through. Meanwhile we've got a small minority of voters who have a disproportionate amount of power (a Montana voter has 46 times more power than a California one) that are forcing their will on the rest of us. You can fall back and say "If you don't like it, change it" but that's a strawman to distract from the complete lack of real democracy.
Kavanaugh has 3 public accusers and one off the record one who doesn't want to come forward out of fear of reprisals. He's also perjured himself multiple times in his testimony, including on several things unrelated to the assault. His testimony showed a man who cannot keep his temper in check. Finally his voting record is extremely anti-work and pro corporate. He's on record saying the government shouldn't interfere in private contracts between companies and individuals. We did that in the 1900s when a SCOTUS judge ruled that was the case and it resulted in decades and decades of worker abuse.
Kavanaugh is a terrible candidate. He was chosen because he was the only fully credentialed candidate who won't vote against Trump if it comes time for Trump to pardon himself. It's well established law that the president can't do that, so you have to dig deep to find someone who will go that route and has the credentials.
We're about to seat a candidate with a laundry list of bad qualities to protect a frankly corrupt president. I'm sorry this upsets you, but anyone paying attention to facts should be able to see that Kavanaugh should not be confirmed for the specific reasons I listed above.
I know they don't look like it, but they are. The skill needed to handle that much data is insane. They need to treat those workers with kid gloves because there aren't very many of them and they can leave anytime they want. And they make so much money they won't be hurting if they're out of work for a year waiting for an NDA to expire.
The world is a very, very different place for employees who can't be pushed around by their bosses. What I don't get is why the rest of the employees don't seem to want that benefit.
for large companies they are effectively celebrities. Their political stances have an impact on the perception of the company as a whole. This comes with the territory. Don't like it? Don't be a CEO of a major corporation.
who had rings run around him by the Republicans. He was chair when the Republicans began their strategy of "Obstruct anything the Dems want and wreck the country to make them look bad". Tip had no response to that because it was an entirely new kind of politics. One that didn't give a rat's ass about the consequences for the country so long as the party and it's mega-rich donors were taking care of. It's Kleptocracy of the worst sort. Once that started there wasn't a damn thing Tip or the Dems could do.
And yes, we do have right wing "Blue Dog" establishment Dems like Pelosi and Schumer working with the GOP to sell us all out. Folks like Bernie & Liz are trying to shut them down and out and replace them with pro-worker, pro-American candidates, but so far they've buried their competition in corporate money.
I'm not making anything up. Come back to me when you've got people in the GOP above the position of Dog Catcher who refuse corporate & PAC money like the Dems do. Until then please, please, wake up and smell the coffee. You got sold out.
on crop yields pretending to be a "military" project because Americans won't pay for anything that isn't "Defense". Norm Chomsky talked about this, the video's still up on Youtube somewhere. When Reagan hit and began slashing fed money in order to fund his tax cuts the only way to get any basic research done was to find a reason why it was "Defense" spending, since that's a sacred cow here.
Christ but we Americans do a lot of silly things...
while also following the Trump party line of blaming the local government.
We're talking about an island of 3 million vs the United States Government. The US Gov'ts response should have dwarfed any mistakes made by local staff. It didn't because, well, we put people in charge who don't believe in government. So they screw it up. Badly. The only reason they didn't screw up in Florida is that's a swing state and nobody fucks with a swing state, so their usual chronyism gets put on the back burner.
if we privatize space travel that all goes away. Personally I don't want it to. Stuff like NASA is the closest thing to socialism we can get in the US. I don't like the idea of space travel becoming a rich man's club. I want a public option. But then again I also want public transit for my streets (that doesn't run one bus every 90 minutes) and I can't get that either.
the Dems have some stinkers in their party (Pelosi & Schumer especially) but there's a core there that's salvageable. I can't say the same for the GOP.
That's not blind hate either. I've got pretty solid evidence to back it up. I can't name a single GOP candidate who refuses corporate PAC money. They killed Net Neutrality first chance they got. Their health care system almost killed a buddy of mine who's type-I diabetic (they took away his insulin, literally because they didn't want to pay for it, and he only got it back when Obamacare kicked in and Obama threatened to pull the old people's Medicare money if Medicaid wasn't funded). Their pointless wars have left my country in massive debt. And they just let PR twist in the wind for politics.
Over and over again the GOP screws me and mine. The Dems occasionally stand up for me and mine when they're not getting bought off by mega corps. The GOP is objectively in favor of the mega corps every step of the way. I'm sorry man, but there comes a time when you need to face facts. Both sides are not the same. One is objectively worse. And as funny as the "Vote Cthulhu" bumper sticker is it's not really a sound voting strategy...
why in the name of God do people forget America's history so easily? It's not like it's hard to find out in a post internet age. Do we really need to cling to that happy world were Columbus discovered America, George Washington didn't own slaves and the railroads weren't built in conditions worse than slave labor? What do we think that'll get us?
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it's about character. Character matters for a lifetime appointment. We can't get rid of him once he's seated. And he will have mind numbing amounts of power. He's basically got Veto power on any law that comes before him. He doesn't have to justify himself either. Clarence Thomas, for example, has written one opinion in his entire time on the bench.
It's about risk. Everything I know about the man tells me I don't want him in charge of my fate. There's plenty more like him that are much, much less risky. They're not going to side with the mega corps 100% of the time against me. They might even have some basic understanding of what my life is like. And they're not as likely to be actively hostile. Again, I have to go on the evidence I have when making a decision. We all do. The evidence tells me that this guy is no friend of mine, and that he's going to use his power to enrich himself and his friends at my expense. Just like those jocks who bullied me did.
and I voted for Bernie in the primary. Waited in line 2 hours for that. I'm aware our system is corrupt, but it's all we have. We're not Gods. I can't put a fire out with one sweep of my hand. I have to start somewhere.
He's past the appointee stage. His background check found some dubious things in his youth and they were ignored. The results are what you see. At this point we're into an actual investigation of rape accusations. Or we would have been if the President himself hadn't limited the scope of the investigation so that nobody concerned could be interviewed.
The Supreme Court very narrowly upheld the law regarding pre-existing conditions (the ACA, aka "Obamacare"). There's another challenge that President Trump and his administration are allowing to go through. It will eventually go to the SCOTUS. When it does we go back to the old system of being denied healthcare. Ever had acne medicine prescribed? Congratulations, you just won a lifetime of no care for skin cancer treatments because of your "cancerous lesions". Kavaughn will vote against it.
People don't realize this but the SCOTUS has effective Veto power over any law in America. All they have to do is declare it unconstitutional. In the past Americans had zero work safety and wage protections because one of the courts ruled that you should be able to enter into any kind of contract you want no matter how broken and one sided it was. The era was named after the judge who rammed it through, and it sucked. Kavaughn is one of those guys. He believes exactly that. Prepare to get screwed.
The media doesn't talk about this stuff because, well, the media is owned by billionaires and they would like very much to not pay taxes or for your healthcare. The media has a slight left wing bias on social issue, but it's hard right on economics.
had 4 accusations, a raft of folks saying he was a violent drunk and often got drunk and gave that testimony I would tell my friend to step down.
I'm surprised you didn't hear, it was kind of a big deal. They still exist (we couldn't kill them completely) but they only get a vote in round 2, and even then lost some power. And round 2 hasn't happened in 30 years.
The Dems have their problems, but I think they're salvagable. There's some folks who refuse corporate PAC money. Quite a bit actually. Google "Justice Democrats". They also support populist ideas like Universal healthcare, free college, the "New New Deal", etc.
The Republicans talk a good game but when it's time to put up they take away protections for pre-existing conditions, cut infrastructure spending for tax cuts and cut federal funding to colleges. You can argue the Dems will do the same thing, but they've never been given the chance. They had 2 years during which they spent all their political capital on healthcare reform and did that while rebuilding the economy after the biggest crash since the Great Depression. Give them a super majority of Bernie Bros & Gals and a matching president if you want to see what the left can do for America.
there are grey areas. Let me spell it out
Some Democrats are corrupt (Pelosi, Manchin).
Some are not (Bernie, Warren, Orcasio Cortez).
I can't name a single GOP member who isn't bought and paid for. Seriously, show me one that refuses corporate PAC money. Just one. I'll wait. Meanwhile the Dems have a wing (google "Justice Democrats") for whom that is a requirement of admission.
The Dems are awful. The GOP is awful. But there's something I think we can salvage in the Dems. I base that on evidence and voting records. I have no such evidence for the GOP. They're only goal is to serve their donors and I have no hard evidence to indicate otherwise. This is a science forum. I expect evidence. As the saying goes, picts or it didn't happen.
and his right wing politics and Wallstreet Deregulation caused the 2008 market crash (he's the one that started letting Mainstreet & Wallstreet banks mix, Bush continued it and that's what got us Credit Default Swaps).
So yeah, as a card carrying Democrat I wouldn't mind in the slightest if Clinton had been taken down. But as a right wing establishment Dem he was propped up by the Mega corps to do their bidding. Just like this Kavanaugh guy.
but you're willing to subject yourself to a full and thorough investigation, right? Just like Ms Ford is.
You just compared a homosexual relationship between two consenting adults to accusations of sexual assault. Those aren't even a little bit alike. That's not a shoe on the other foot. Kavanaugh is accused of something that virtually everyone agrees is wrong. Outside of evangelicals the exact opposite is true for homosexuality.
You're strawmaning in the worst way.
at this point. It was sold to the public as an actual investigation. Based on what little we know they didn't. They didn't interview the accused or the accuser. What kind of investigation is that? A whitewash, that's what.
Spend some time on WaPo & the NY Times. There are several articles where his former classmates were interviewed. They've discussed how several times he was black out drunk. Go read the book his friend Mark Judge wrote.
And no, this isn't the end of the world, but it is one more nail in a coffin. People really don't get what's going on here. We're slipping back into a gilded age. Why can't folks see how bad things were just 50-100 years ago, how bad they are in large parts of the world, and understand that it _can_ happen here. I just don't get it. We all fought so hard for decent pay, worker safety, healthcare and there are very wealthy people who are not content with being just very wealthy and would like very much to not have to pay for us to have these things. Why can't folks understand that? There's a class war on, and we're losing.
so I'm gonna say this:
Kavanaugh is not a nice person. He's a pretty jock who was born on 3rd base and acts like he hit a triple. I'm a nerd. I was bullied. A lot. Kavanaugh is the kind of guy who did the bullying. There's something deeply ironic about a site full of real nerds coming to the defense of a jock.
If this was just about false accusations that'd be one thing. But then there's his voting record, which is entirely pro-corporate and anti-worker. There's the numerous examples of perjury during his confirmation testimony (much of it unrelated to the accusations). There's his quiet frankly belligerent testimony that made him look unhinged.
What we have here is a bunch of folks rushing to his defense not because they think he should be seated, but because their emotions tell them men are getting cheated. Calm down for a moment and ask yourself, how is this man's decisions going to affect my life? If you make under $300k/yr the answers don't bode well for you.
or even a real investigation. That's what happened. Let the FBI work without the president interfering and we'll talk.
What little we do know shows why the GOP is fighting so hard against this. We've got 3-4 accusers (one of them is too afraid to step forward and is anonymous). We've got multiple corroborating reports from people who knew him at the time. He's perjured himself multiple times (including about things unrelated to the assaults).
If I submitted an app to 7-11 with this many holes in my background check I'd be turned down, but somehow we're going to put a guy in one of if not the most powerful positions with this on his record?
Something ain't right. He's being rammed through by the mega corps and mark my words, we're going to regret it. We're gonna miss Roe v Wade guys, because when this guy gets done gutting worker protections we're all gonna wish we were aborted.
corroborating it. Have you not been paying attention? Tons of people who knew him back then have come forward. His buddy wrote a book with a thinly veiled reference to Kavanaugh where they discussed spiking punch. His calendar his references to beer enemas and 3 ways. He has 3 public accusers and 1 that's hanging back out of fear of reprisals.
A SCOTUS nominee has more power than a US President. They decide what laws are constitutional. They make our gov't what it is. They must be completely beyond reproach. This guy wouldn't pass a background check for a 7-11 at this point. And that's before we talk about the numerous instances of perjury. There's no way in hell he should be seated.
because the Dems would have done a background check and found the accusations, just like the GOP did. The They knew about Kavanaugh history and didn't care. GOP went forward anyway because that's how little they think of the voting public. They're oligarchs. You and I will do as we are told.
he's accused of sexual assault. There's a difference. We're about to seat a guy with repeated accusations that several people are corroborating with little investigation. If you don't think that's a problem then, well, I don't know what to tell you except "Party before Country".
to a lifetime appointment in the most powerful seat in the land (SCOTUS has final say on all laws, they're essentially above the law if they choose to be) when the majority of Americans oppose his nomination and can list good reasons why (perjury even before the assault allegations, anti-work/pro-corporation bias, angry & off-kilter testimony, etc, etc)?
From the polls it seem the American people have made their desires known and the aristocracy is determined to ram this guy through. Meanwhile we've got a small minority of voters who have a disproportionate amount of power (a Montana voter has 46 times more power than a California one) that are forcing their will on the rest of us. You can fall back and say "If you don't like it, change it" but that's a strawman to distract from the complete lack of real democracy.
Kavanaugh has 3 public accusers and one off the record one who doesn't want to come forward out of fear of reprisals. He's also perjured himself multiple times in his testimony, including on several things unrelated to the assault. His testimony showed a man who cannot keep his temper in check. Finally his voting record is extremely anti-work and pro corporate. He's on record saying the government shouldn't interfere in private contracts between companies and individuals. We did that in the 1900s when a SCOTUS judge ruled that was the case and it resulted in decades and decades of worker abuse.
Kavanaugh is a terrible candidate. He was chosen because he was the only fully credentialed candidate who won't vote against Trump if it comes time for Trump to pardon himself. It's well established law that the president can't do that, so you have to dig deep to find someone who will go that route and has the credentials.
We're about to seat a candidate with a laundry list of bad qualities to protect a frankly corrupt president. I'm sorry this upsets you, but anyone paying attention to facts should be able to see that Kavanaugh should not be confirmed for the specific reasons I listed above.
I know they don't look like it, but they are. The skill needed to handle that much data is insane. They need to treat those workers with kid gloves because there aren't very many of them and they can leave anytime they want. And they make so much money they won't be hurting if they're out of work for a year waiting for an NDA to expire.
The world is a very, very different place for employees who can't be pushed around by their bosses. What I don't get is why the rest of the employees don't seem to want that benefit.
for large companies they are effectively celebrities. Their political stances have an impact on the perception of the company as a whole. This comes with the territory. Don't like it? Don't be a CEO of a major corporation.
who had rings run around him by the Republicans. He was chair when the Republicans began their strategy of "Obstruct anything the Dems want and wreck the country to make them look bad". Tip had no response to that because it was an entirely new kind of politics. One that didn't give a rat's ass about the consequences for the country so long as the party and it's mega-rich donors were taking care of. It's Kleptocracy of the worst sort. Once that started there wasn't a damn thing Tip or the Dems could do.
And yes, we do have right wing "Blue Dog" establishment Dems like Pelosi and Schumer working with the GOP to sell us all out. Folks like Bernie & Liz are trying to shut them down and out and replace them with pro-worker, pro-American candidates, but so far they've buried their competition in corporate money.
I'm not making anything up. Come back to me when you've got people in the GOP above the position of Dog Catcher who refuse corporate & PAC money like the Dems do. Until then please, please, wake up and smell the coffee. You got sold out.
on crop yields pretending to be a "military" project because Americans won't pay for anything that isn't "Defense". Norm Chomsky talked about this, the video's still up on Youtube somewhere. When Reagan hit and began slashing fed money in order to fund his tax cuts the only way to get any basic research done was to find a reason why it was "Defense" spending, since that's a sacred cow here.
Christ but we Americans do a lot of silly things...
while also following the Trump party line of blaming the local government.
We're talking about an island of 3 million vs the United States Government. The US Gov'ts response should have dwarfed any mistakes made by local staff. It didn't because, well, we put people in charge who don't believe in government. So they screw it up. Badly. The only reason they didn't screw up in Florida is that's a swing state and nobody fucks with a swing state, so their usual chronyism gets put on the back burner.
if we privatize space travel that all goes away. Personally I don't want it to. Stuff like NASA is the closest thing to socialism we can get in the US. I don't like the idea of space travel becoming a rich man's club. I want a public option. But then again I also want public transit for my streets (that doesn't run one bus every 90 minutes) and I can't get that either.
the Dems have some stinkers in their party (Pelosi & Schumer especially) but there's a core there that's salvageable. I can't say the same for the GOP.
That's not blind hate either. I've got pretty solid evidence to back it up. I can't name a single GOP candidate who refuses corporate PAC money. They killed Net Neutrality first chance they got. Their health care system almost killed a buddy of mine who's type-I diabetic (they took away his insulin, literally because they didn't want to pay for it, and he only got it back when Obamacare kicked in and Obama threatened to pull the old people's Medicare money if Medicaid wasn't funded). Their pointless wars have left my country in massive debt. And they just let PR twist in the wind for politics.
Over and over again the GOP screws me and mine. The Dems occasionally stand up for me and mine when they're not getting bought off by mega corps. The GOP is objectively in favor of the mega corps every step of the way. I'm sorry man, but there comes a time when you need to face facts. Both sides are not the same. One is objectively worse. And as funny as the "Vote Cthulhu" bumper sticker is it's not really a sound voting strategy...
why in the name of God do people forget America's history so easily? It's not like it's hard to find out in a post internet age. Do we really need to cling to that happy world were Columbus discovered America, George Washington didn't own slaves and the railroads weren't built in conditions worse than slave labor? What do we think that'll get us?