Post something that would annoy the preceding poster.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

It's natural and inevitable that the Plains States would become strongly conservative, and they'll surely stay so for the foreseeable future.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

For Antonio:

The Third Way really is the only path remaining for the European left. Traditional social democracy is at best a relic of Cold War, Bretton Woods-era structures with no real relevance or import in a deregulated, liberalized, flattening world. The left needs to come to terms with the untapped power of the market to improve lives with government involvement or intervention only in the severest cases.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Everything of interest in Nietzsche is just the syphilis talking and of no further account or relevance.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Both leftism and liberalism have to be inherently and uncompromisingly globalist to be coherent.