Doublespeak. Republicans actively work to twist the meaning of words to their base to fit their agenda, so that the other side playing by the rules and being fair looks like political cheating. That way Republicans can engage in political cheating themselves and claim self defense.
In today's flavor, "legal standard" means "the ability to make us lose" so they want to apply their own "legal standard" to democrats.
It sounds dumb to anyone paying attention, but their voters will eat this up.
It's not hard to clock a thesis as wrong and ignore the rest of the essay. Pretty arrogant of you to assume the problem is me.
Either way, have fun yelling at people on the internet how wrong they are about something abstract and purely theoretical.
^ did not read past the question. Guarantee it's alarmist garbage about how we're definitely going to die because of some imaginary numbers were living fine with.
Hey man, get off your high horse a little and I might start taking you seriously.
You really like the black and white arguments, don't you?
Controlling a source of money doesn't mean the only option is to print so much of it that inflation eats the whole economy.
Let me ask you this: if the US is so bad at managing the debt it owes to its people, how come we have functioned as an economy under that debt for the last several decades?
That's the point. It's entitlement when poor people do it. It's "the fair share that they deserve" when they do it. If conservatives didn't have double standards they wouldn't have standards at all.
It's the structure of our "first past the post" system. Basically, each party gets one representative on the presidential ticket. The two major parties have primaries where the top candidates compete in a vote within themselves, and the winner gets put on the presidential ticket for that party.
The obvious problem with that is that the party convention picks the candidate, not the voters. So it's possible to buy a party's candidate or for the conventions to snub popular choice in favor of not shaking things up too much in the status quo.
The latter point, the democratic party picking lukewarm candidates that are moderate at best because the establishment doesn't want to disturb the status quo, has been a problem for a long time and is a major reason democrat voters don't go to the polls.
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Not for the corporations that make money off of extorting a basic necessity from poor people! Won't someone think of the corporations?
Translation: "I watch exclusively conservative media and consequently have no idea what's real or not"
News used to be 60 minutes just after prime time. Now they have whole channels with news 24/7/365. Have to fill all that air time with something
Or Woefully ignorant. I know some of those
Not the seat. The rim. The seat doesn't create a seal.