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Really, attacking someone on those grounds is low, and often shows you have no better attacks to use.  (see: Bush '92) People, generally, don't care. The majority of the electorate hasn't grown up on the draft, and the proportion that has gets smaller every year.

Yes. If you tell swing voters that Bernie dodged the draft, a majority of them will probably think that he didn't bother to tune in to the NFL or NBA draft.

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No nation should aspire at being "great" tbh.

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Name one "really smart person" that has gone on record with this nonsense. None have.

Um, do you realize that the OP is parodying Trump's style of floating conspiracy theories?

No. Nor should I. This post is not based in reality and should be pulled.

I don't have time to pull 1438 posts.

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Guys, this isn't about Supreme Court nominations. Fuzzy Bear dislikes individual freedoms and brown people like most other Trump supporters so he wants to make the US more fascist. Of course him and his fellow Trumpists won't want to admit to this so they'll create all sorts of excuses.

Obviously, anyone who in the primaries enthusiastically backed Trump over the other Republican candidates is a false Christian who doesn't give a s**t about the word of God. Yeah, you worried Cruz or Rubio wouldn't appoint the right Supreme Court justice? You thought Trump was the safest bet to win the election and get that appointment? Yeah, didn't think so.

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In all honesty, we can't. Not without sacrificing our ideals. Bernie Sanders is a very unique individual and there simply aren't many like him who can be both an intellectual and a man of the people. Jeremy Corbyn comes to mind, but he's British. The Democratic platform of social justice appeals to minorities and college educated Whites; not to non-college educated Whites. We are a party of diverse groups; African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic immigrants, Atheists, Muslims, and so on. The working class White man from eastern Ohio doesn't care about social justice issues; if anything, he supports the police rather than BLM and "clean" coal over stricter environmental regulations.

I would love to have a Democratic Party that can appeal to the White working class, colleged educated Whites, and minorities at sufficient levels to regain and maintain control over the institutions of government. Unfortunately, one of these groups must be lost in order to hold power with the others. I just hope I'm wrong.

I mean this in the kindest way possible and with all due respect, but I think you're wrong. The Democratic Party has always been the party of building ingenious demographic coalitions with strong and lasting bonds. We slip up from time to time and the coalition doesn't always hold up, but time and time again the Democratic Party is able to rebuild. We need something like the New Deal coalition again, and we won't get it just by driving up minority turnout and hoping for the best.

It's not that I disagree with you because if you saw my other recent posts, I want us to reach out to and become the party of the working class again. But I also fear that in so doing we may have to compromise our social justice values to achieve this. Unless we can miraculously staff the party with Sanders and Brown types, I don't see how we achieve this.

I think it is a bit pessimistic to say that social justice and the goals of the white working class are incompatible. The white working class didn't leave the party when abortion became a headline issue, or when gay marriage was added to the platform. The working class left the party when neoliberalism took over. When we stopped talking about unions, trade and poverty and only started talking about social justice.

We can do both. We just have to make sure that all members of the coalition get their piece of the pie.

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The right is a big supporter of huge military spending. What is more violent than war?

This doesn't work anymore now that the Democratic party has been all too happy to embrace a giant military involved in perpetual war.

Not to mention that WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia, Somalia, Syria, etc etc were all started by Democratic presidents.

Democrats have no right to chide anyone about war.

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I have the coding skills to make a website that looks like it was made in 2000.

So does Dave Leip

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The alt-right isn't a group, it's an ideology.

It's not even an ideology, it's a label for a broad classification of viewpoints centered primarily around the word cuck and editing airhorns into "fail" videos.

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The reason why Reagan is so exalted by Republicans is because he's literally the only Republican president since Eisenhower who wasn't a complete failure/disgrace/lost reelection.  They don't have any other options.

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Jesus, just take out your penises and compare them already.

Chances are, somewhere in an alternate universe, men actually do this on a regular basis.

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I actually own Bruce Gibney's book A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America and it's a very qood read.

They were raised to be selfish and feel entitled to everythinq. They qrew up in an era of plenty because their parents had carefully saved their resources in the aftermath of the qreat depression. But now, they've burned throuqh the savinqs from their parent's qeneration, all the resources of our own qeneration, they've used virtually all of our qeneration's resources before we even came of aqe, and now they're takinq out so much debt that even their qrandchildren won't have anythinq to their name either. They've done more to destroy our country than any enemy, foreiqn or domestic.

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This is disingenuous and oversimplifies the problem. Mexico is classified as having high human development. True, it may not be as high as the United States or Canada, but you’re missing the point. A lot of illegal immigration is driven by people coming from Central America through Mexico. Cooperating with Mexican authorities and helping support their own border security is crucial.

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Her poor judgement and voting record are reasons she should be voted out....not her age/sex

Yeah, the Assault Weapons Ban was a mistake. Guess we would be safer just bowing down to the NRA.

The AWB was a mistake. It was a pathetic and ineffective piece of legislation that did virtually nothing to curb gun violence and hampered efforts for any effective gun control.

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B-but I thought 2016 meant that Ohio would become a solid Republican state?

Ohio will soon be thought of, once again, as a big state with several major metros and major colleges instead of an apocalyptic, WWC wonderland of abandoned factories because of how it votes!  It will truly be something to behold.

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I think using the term in a hurtful way towards those that are actually mentally-handicapped is wrong and something that should be discouraged. However, as the legendary words of Michael Scott go, "You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they're acting retarded".

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Hot take: Calthrina whining about civility whenever he gets the chance is more annoying than people being uncivil, which at least is occasionally entertaining and not incredibly self-righteous in a tone-deaf way.

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Social conservatism is the very thing that enables bad economic and foreign policy. If neo-cons had to run on their economic and foreign policy they would get trounced. Instead they have weaved themselves into the Christian and social conservative communities by embracing wedge issues, hollow patriotism, and repressive traditionalism to then pass terrible legislation that hurts that very same base. Which never seems to get the base to revolt and instead entrenches them to believe they are under attack from all sides.

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Democrats should support Biden if he's their personal favorite, or if they prefer his policies to others. That doesn't apply to a large number of Democrats here, so there's no reason the rest of us shouldn't support someone else. People shouldn't be stating constantly that he's the most electable or the only candidate who can beat Trump as if it's an established and indisputable fact. First of all, there's really no way to know such a thing this early, and the arguments supporting this idea don't really work so well if you look at recent elections. Biden might be left-wing if you believe people like Kasich and Rubio are "moderate", but he's pretty clearly to the right of the majority of Democrats running. And that's probably exactly why Republicans want him to be the nominee. They want the Overton Window to shift further to the right, which is what a center-left Democratic Party and an extreme far right Republican Party will do. The neocons of the 2000s, once seen as very far right, will be seen as the "center."

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The median voter is an illiterate, obese clown who can barely change their own diapers unassisted.