Healthcare costs so much here because it’s profit driven.

JK, you are sort of agreeing with me. Since no one promoting single payer is saying anything other than it will just pay the incredibly high prices that already exist, it’s clear that it will be very expensive. And of course, they say we will raise taxes only on the rich because they know that almost no one thinks of themselves as rich. So one expects they will actually be the one to pay the new taxes when a candidate phrases it that way.

Where’d my freedom to own a fully-automatic machine gun go? What Demo-crap libterd thought of taking that essential liberty away?

I bet the citizens of Hong Kong wish every citizen there had a fully automatic weapon right about now with The “People’s Army” camped at the border …..

Bring back the days when I could legally beat my children and kick an undesirable out of my town by way of the debt-slavery prison. I miss the Golden Age of Freedom. Make America Free to Execute Mentally Disabled Convicts Again!

For my sake, I pray Bernie gets the Democratic nomination so I can see the entire the American political establishment eat a big bag of salted dicks and be forced to support Donald Trump.

I prefer my bag of dicks unsalted thank you very much Mike…. high blood pressure and all you know…..

They’re Bernie Sanders supporters, actually, my Mom and Pop. My dad has all sorts of Bernie swag, you should see the bumper stickers on his Nissan Leaf. He lives in South Florida in a very blue county (Broward) but all of his friends who are his age are Trumpers, which annoys him to no end.

They’re not dead-ender sycophants though, and they’ll happily vote D if (when) Sanders is not the nominee.

Someday the Boomers will die off

Is my Knicks commentary really so bad?

Personally, I’m not a supporter of either one, but I like many of their ideas as visions to hope for. In this cycle, pragmatic and incremental is the way to go. Let’s get a couple of supreme court justices under our belt and then we can worry about universal health care.

Someday the Boomers will die off, and the society that is someday run by the geriatric Gen Xers, graying Millennials and pushing-40 Gen Z’ers will be a big improvement.

Sez you…. lets see how well this bunch of self important twits can keep their freedoms…..

Right, that corporate whore Elizabeth Warren, secret Reagan lover and a person who is not Bernie Sanders. Only Bernie can save us! Without Bernie we are doomed! Everybody else sucks! This is not cult-like behavior at all, it’s just the truth, Bernie Sanders is the only one and true savior of America!

You have a mistaken understanding of my critique of Elizabeth Warren every time you raise Bernie Sanders. First off, he’s irrelevant to a critique of her record. If Bernie ceased existing tomorrow I still wouldn’t support her because, unlike you, I took the time to vet her past. You bringing him up to discredit my criticisms of that record are a red herring. If I decide to vote Green Party tomorrow, I still would doubt her intentions for reasons I’ve outlined several times here before. If you want to vote for Elizabeth Joanie Come Lately that’s your business. But I am not going to sit here and pretend she’s something she’s not

Secondly, you can check out everything I’ve wrote about her and see it is all true. She was a registered Republican as late as 1996 meaning she implicitly supported Reaganism until a Third Way neoliberal like Bill Clinton triangulated so hard right that moderate Republicans like her switched Democrat.

Lastly, and most importantly, the issue isn’t that I am such a fan of Bernie’s policies – they’re actually to the right of what I ideally prefer. If we were in a Western European nation like Germany or France, he’d be considered a center-left candidate, not a progressive one. The issue is that I am skeptical of most every other major candidate in the Democratic Primary and I choose him as my compromise candidate because I am convinced of his long-term commitment to instituting some brand of Social Democracy in this country which is as far left as most Americans are willing to go..