[James Brancheau]

Never mind.

(Thanks, Andrew. No, I haven't seen that. A friend made a fairly substantial bet that he wouldn't make it through his first term. At least if he loses, he won't have to pay up for a while...)

[Michael Cantor]

Andrew - how could you? The landmark 500th post on this thread, and the best you could leave us with is an Irish bookie? Well, the 1000th will be coming up shortly, and I'll be looking for something more intense. By then we might be discussing impeachment (choose your reason), and the awful fact that Pence is a more decent human being, but even more conservative.

[Roger Slater]

Pence is a more decent human being? I haven't seen evidence of that. But he is probably a saner human being. And I suppose it's somewhat more wholesome when he wants to screw Ivanka than when Donald does. But he was just as gung-ho about denying 24 million people their healthcare, and probably even more so, since Donald might not have understood or thought much about the fact that that was what he was trying to do.

[RCL]

The dogs finally caught the bus, and the best they could do was piss on it.

[John Whitworth]

Michael, are not most Americans conservative, if conservative means not liking change.

I, of course am not conservative, but you surely are.

[Michael Cantor]

John, you're clueless. Stick to poetry.

When change means advancing American society - going to the universal health care system that every other developed country has, for example - I'm all for it.

When "change" means going backwards - destroying the health care we now have, promoting legislation that restricts voting, getting religion involved with government - I'm against it.

It's not that simple. As many have told you - stick to poetry. Or maybe you could focus on cricket. But not politics. Particularly American politics. You know nothing, and you insist on demonstrating it loudly and frequently.

[Andrew Frisardi]

nevermind.

[Quincy Lehr]

Originally Posted by John Whitworth

Michael, are not most Americans conservative, if conservative means not liking change.

Well, Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician by far, and a majority of Americans favor a single-payer health care system, and a majority under forty favor "socialism" (whatever they mean by that) over "capitalism" (which they know all too well). So no, not really. That you wouldn't know any of this from the overwhelming majority of elected officials says more about systemic problems in American "democracy" than anything else.

[James Brancheau]

Nice to know.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate...s_lawyers.html

[RCL]

Yes, I'm glad to know it.

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