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I know! Except the ###holes in Washington. And, admittedly, some coal miners who don't want to be retrained, they want to do what they already know how to do. And I understand that. But there could be great gains for those communities.
You are not keeping up, as president you don't speak at Goldman Sach's, you just hire all of them to run the government and fill their pockets.
I don't know about 65. Hard to make that argument when you can't even get Social Security yet. But a lot of states make judges retire at 70. I'd be on board with that.
Absolutely great with that. Meaning a President would take office some time between age 35 and 62. A perfectly reasonable way to go in my opinion.
I think mental health is even more important than physical health regarding our President. We absolutely should have someone in charge of this. Great idea!
Baby Boomers would have a meltdown if they get excluded from something. For this idea to bear fruit it will have to be after the boomers are all too old to run.
Don't worry about Conyers. He'll pass away soon, and Monica will take over. She's young enough to carry on his work for another 30 years.
What about a maximum voting age? Seems like people shouldn't be able to destroy the country from their death beds.
8 posts, I'm slightly surprised it took that long.
I'm one who thinks the DNC should take another look at their primary schedule. Why is their news narrative in regards to the early primary driven by a higher percentage of states in which they are a minority(high in some cases) voter and aren't going to win. If they mixed a few of reliable "Big Blues" in there early.....Bernie might have been able to control the news narrative.
I can't follow the trail of the severe leftists in the forties to the Obama years and what the new awful hybrid is.
Obama isn't the issue - he was primarily focused on the really progressive parts of the progressive bit when he was using it. In the 40s, a large number of people in the group trying to reboot the party were actual communists - it pushed the "progressive" part into a communist bent. A lot of people on the left now calling themselves "progressives" are really just socialists who don't want to be called socialists. And while the progressive agenda includes a rejection of social darwinism, it isn't really a far-left socialist movement any more than paying for shared police and fire departments is a far-left socialist movement.
I think all but a few whackos have rejected the major tenets of communism/socialism, i.e., the people's (government's) ownership of the means of production. I guess I really don't know what constitutes the difference between far-left socialist and progressive these days. Are you concerned that we may have two groups of people on the left side of the spectrum working against one another (whether deliberately or not)?
I'm concerned that a "progress of the human race" movement based in increasing competition and placing more power in the hands of the many has become a "social program and government spending" movement. I support lots of social programs, too, but that's not what progressivism is about, really. It's support for science and social progress as is necessary to restrain corporate control over government, not "what can we give the government control of."
That just seems like such a fine line to me, maybe because some social progress requires new social programs and government spending. Like some kind of universal health care system which I think will help the country move forward more rapidly from an economic standpoint as much as from a health/social standpoint.
This... this is a joke, right? Just thickly layered sarcasm that's zooming over my head, right?
She gave a speech yesterday saying "There is nothing I can work with President Bush on" slip of the tongue but she is an elderly lady who makes these mistakes all the time. In the same forum 78 year old Maxine Waters said "Putin is invading Korea" Not because they are dems because I hate McConnell and his crew as well.
I always felt voting should break down like this:
Yeah, its safe to say i hate at least 15% from the far left and 25% from the far right. Probably more from each side.
I wish you would create a political forum to get all of this political "stuff" out of the FFA.
And it shouldn't be in the form of an entitlement (when did it start being called that? ), it should be a helping hand.
They could probably get jobs on frac crews. Though perhaps working outside and above ground in the fresh air wouldn't agree with them.
