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March 11, 2019

Clinton-Era Official Says Left Should Lead Following Center-Right Failures

"A Clinton-era centrist Democrat explains why it’s time to give democratic socialists a chance"


“Barack Obama rolls into office with Mitt Romney’s health care policy, with John McCain’s climate policy, with Bill Clinton’s tax policy, and George H.W. Bush’s foreign policy,” DeLong notes. “And did George H.W. Bush, did Mitt Romney, did John McCain say a single good word about anything Barack Obama ever did over the course of eight solid years? No, they fucking did not.”



https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/4/18246381/democrats-clinton-sanders-left-brad-delong

Interesting.

March 11, 2019

When I hear about conservatives crying about the Liberal bias of Facebook and Twitter....

I have to ask, where were they when conservatives dominated AM talk radio? And, unlike the internet, the spectrum for radio is limited and controlled by the government. If you don't like Twitter or Facebook, start your own social media platform.

March 11, 2019

Capitalism is not sustainable over the long term.

The definition of capitalism is an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

There is no mention of a middle class. No mention of socioeconomic mobility. No mention of protection of the environment. No mention of access to education/healthcare/housing/or even food. No mention of social justice. None of that. Simply put, it's those with capital get to make the rules, and everyone lives in service to them.

The more valuable you are to the capitalist class, the better your chances are at survival. But, here's the rub. The capitalists need fewer and fewer laborers each passing day. IT automation, which has actually been around for decades, continue to render entire professions obsolete. We're rapidly headed to a world without any work.

What then? What happens in a nation of obsolete workers? We've actually seen this already. Look at some of the inner cities right after de-industrialization in 1970s and 80s, NY, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore. Back then, and even now, we looked at their plight as if it were a moral failing instead of seeing these populations rendered as obsolete workers. Fast forward to today and we see the same plight through the Opiod epidemic. Masses of people rendered obsolete turning to drugs.

Depending on the capitalist class for our very survival is simply not realistic.

March 6, 2019

Trump is incredibly dumb, ignorant, uneducated, lazy, and lacks any semblance of self control and...

discipline as evidence by his diet and his overly aggressive libido.

So, then, please tell me how did get accepted into an Ivy league school, become "successful" in commercial real estate, had a major network TV show touting him as a great businessman, won the nomination of the Republican party, and then became president.

How could he have done any of this?

March 6, 2019

Bus Hotel From Los Angeles To San Francisco

Couple films their experience taking a "Bus Hotel" from L.A. to S.F. Interesting. A bullet train would be better.

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