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Yeah that's right I was fairly young when that happened so the finer backroom dealing that went on has faded. I have family and friends who work in healthcare and they pretty much universally hope Lieberman is burning right now. The whole industry is in borderline collapse from what I've heard...

Nelson also didn't want to vote for the ACA if my memory is right but they had 58 votes they should have just nuked the filibuster for something that important.

In a 1st past the post system that's unfortunately the case, like i hate it myself but there isn't enough of a voting reform push by any side to abolish it. The systemic issues very often override any push for overall popularity as you rightly say the EC exists. There's more then 6 swing sates...

I don't think it's really much of a prediction so much as accepting that progressives make up roughly 20% of the population and liberals another 1/3 or so. If they consistently coalitioned together they'd hold all 3 electable parts of the federal government. Not enough to be filibusterer proof...

I can't speak for him directly but in general Democratic circles yes they absolutely blame both Republicans and leftists for the complete collapse of SCOTUS because it's simple math. Duverger's Law is 100% a fact in 1st past the post election systems like the United States. You ether vote for...

There hasn't ever been a time with over the threshold to nuke the filibuster of pro-choice senators. The coalition that votes for such candidates is too concentrated to reach the roughly 55-58 seats you'd need. Same with most liberal leaning causes like LGBT and in the current day even voting...

This is the 3rd or 4th attempt to pass comprehensive immigration reform via a divided Senate and GOP house and its tanked every time worrying about it actually becoming law is kinda pointless it won't. The system is archaic and needs reform mostly fiscally related as it's badly underfunded but...

It's won what 20 Emmys? It's a good show that in retrospect sometimes gets it wrong like every program.

Voter fraud is extremely rare like less then 1:1,000,000 ballots. Election fraud is quite common depending on your definition of it though. If you include things like gerrymandering and suppression as types of electoral fraud like a 3rd of congressional elections are, but even under strict...

Now I don't think it's remotely likely myself I think it's much more plausible instead of an actual Civil War if the US descended into increasing violence it would be a sustained insurgency like many countries already faced or have faced. On that note it certainly would be urban-rural if it got...

The bigger issue with a 2nd American Civil War is we likely lose. Regardless of who's fault it is and I'd say much like the 1st one it'll be the right's, they have major land and recruitment advantages. So it'll be polar opposite of the black liberation of the 1st American Civil War sadly.

That's if you believe protected classes are a thing (which I do mind you I'm an old school New Deal Democrat) there's a major segment of the population that sees it purely as an economic matter. I'm not happy with At Will employment but there's no major push to change it among any political...

Okay finally home so I can do proper replies anyway, you're using a civil rights issue vs an economic one for the 1st point. Economics is an issue where there's no real right answer for all situations, a collective approach to an economic issue like a Marxist would propose for say housing may...

We should probably take anymore discussion about this to the other thread as Gori said but it's unfortunately not a lie. As much as I love the idea of them throwing off Hamas's control of the region and bring in a peaceful faction it hasn't happened. What has is unfortunately more...

I mean if they wanna genocide Jewish and other populations due to how they've been both raised in and subjected too what else are you supposed to call it? As I said in a later comment it's not innate to being Palestinian it's how they've been both treated and subjected to decades of propaganda...

The US did put pressure on the the Israeli government to honor a temporary cease-fire which Trump wouldn't have bothered but that's minor. He did move the embassy to Jerusalem a couple years back though inflaming tensions for no good reason. So the likely possibility is less that it would change...

West is running I think in the green primary but it won't matter much. He's a good guy but 3rd parties are irrelevant or actively harmful due to the political term that I'm blanking on that basically states that FPTP systems like the US actively automatically become defacto 2 party states. It's...

It's conditioning, not innate to a yet unborn person in Gaza but yes their current situation is entirely antithetical the western values and even really most middle eastern countries too there's a reason nobody wants to take them in as they get displaced they'd need to be basically deprogrammed...

I'm not sure what you're confused about but I can clarify that's it's not worth debating them in any honest way. I can have debates with conservatives even if they're wrong but Marxists are so focus on theories and academic terms they fail to see humans are well human. With flaws and illogical...

Also you act like he's just gonna go away when he's term limited if he's in office he won't that's the biggest thing if he was elected in 2020 or 2024 he won't leave office until he dies. There's no enforcement mechanism for anything in the federal government so if he purges the upper levels of...