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I pray that it is Scott.

We need more liberal Republicans.

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We need more liberal Republicans.

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Good governor of Michigan. Attack me all you want, but it is corrupt Democratic machines incompetently running the inner cities that cause those problems like we see in Flint and Detroit. I'm just telling it like it is. The local Flint officials are the HP's that caused the awful water crisis, IMO.

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Remember that in Atlas, elections are only fair when liberal candidates win.

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Globalization is nothing but a force for evil driven by the elites.

Sometimes the alt-right and alt-left are hard to tell apart.

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No. Liberals have a broad definition of racism. To millions of Americans, slavery was racism, segregation was racism, and the KKK was racism.

If you don't actively like those three things, then you're not a racist. Of course, according to today's liberals, everything is racist which almost turns conversations about race into the "boy who cried wolf" syndrome. When everything is racist and everyone is racist, that's when you begin to get eye-rolls from many Americans.

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There is no logical reason to argue that alcohol or tobacco taxes are good but soda taxes are not.

Alcohol is much worse than Soda

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Considering Republican opposition to affordable healthcare being available to everyone is by their worst trait, I suppose I'd say FF.

As has been said a thousand different times by a thousand different people, simply because conservatives don't support GOVERNMENT providing a service doesn't mean that conservatives don't believe in the utility/necessity of said service in the first place. The current system under Obamacare has been a disaster and the system before Obamacare was a disaster, but the system previous to Obamacare was absolutely, in no way, a free market. Even before Obamacare, government spending on healthcare in the United States was some of the highest in the world. The best solution is to move to a system of increased competition, person-centered (instead of employer-centered) insurance, increased use of HSAs, as well as other market reforms. Lower insurance costs resulting from there reforms will ensure that poorer Americans can afford health insurance for themselves.

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No, of course not. Bush believed that Iraq had WMD's, as did almost everybody else. That that turned out wrong, and was not a reason to invade in any event from a prudential standpoint (and get in the middle of a civil war precipitated thereby), does not make him a war criminal. He just made a catastrophic error. Criminalizing everything in sight is just not my bag, and is a symptom of the toxic political environment in which we live. I am also skeptical of whether Trump based on what I have read is really guilty of obstruction of justice as well, but I will await the details on that, before reaching a firmer opinion.