03-28-2017, 03:10 PM
1. American political parties are effectively coalitions forged before the election. In parliamentary systems one does not know what one is getting. At some point a European party that gets the largest number of votes might have to choose between supporting a racist party or an Islamic party.
2. Big Business has been doing everything possible to eviscerate labor unions. Really, except for collective bargaining, unions offer little that a company can't offer -- but unless my job is so individual in quality of output, collective bargaining is well worth the union dues just to prevent an employer from forcing a race to the bottom in wages and working conditions in a workplace with machine-paced work.
3. Sorry about the typo. Republicans effectively blocked much of the Obama agenda, compelling him to do by regulation what Republicans could stop by filibusters and no-votes. But I have much more concern with the contempt for the rule of law that Donald Trump exemplifies. I would not want a politician who is effective in establishing torture chambers or labor camps.
But you admire such sociopaths as Stalin, Hoxha, and Trump, so it is hardly surprising that you put efficacy above human decency.
4. Race as a determiner of human character is garbage. But yes, I won't miss those "social conservative boomers who have one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel", either -- except that I am of the same age, and when they go, either I am gone or I am soom to be gone.
2. Big Business has been doing everything possible to eviscerate labor unions. Really, except for collective bargaining, unions offer little that a company can't offer -- but unless my job is so individual in quality of output, collective bargaining is well worth the union dues just to prevent an employer from forcing a race to the bottom in wages and working conditions in a workplace with machine-paced work.
3. Sorry about the typo. Republicans effectively blocked much of the Obama agenda, compelling him to do by regulation what Republicans could stop by filibusters and no-votes. But I have much more concern with the contempt for the rule of law that Donald Trump exemplifies. I would not want a politician who is effective in establishing torture chambers or labor camps.
But you admire such sociopaths as Stalin, Hoxha, and Trump, so it is hardly surprising that you put efficacy above human decency.
4. Race as a determiner of human character is garbage. But yes, I won't miss those "social conservative boomers who have one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel", either -- except that I am of the same age, and when they go, either I am gone or I am soom to be gone.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.