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If the UN had just let Gaddafi put down protests using his tanks, planes and security service (national sovereignty trumps human rights), there would be more ‘stability’/‘law-and- order’ with the authoritarian in power.
Hence, the preference of conservatives (like Trump) for authoritarian rule.

The only hope for a trump and the GOP is a divided opposition. When Bernie wins the nomination, the right knows what they have to do – divide-to-conquer.
A third party candidate on the ‘left’ (“Bernie’s not pure left enough”, “Bernie’s too pure ‘socialist’”, etc.) will be quietly funded by the right.

They know they can’t win a pure Trump vs Berni…[Read more]

But if a president does the ‘right’ thing in an illegal manner for the ‘wrong’ reason, that is OK? It is the ‘end’ that matters; not the ‘means’. Few progressives think Trump withheld aid to Ukraine because he thought it was a bad idea. It was an interesting sue of ‘leverage’ for personal benefit.

“All of us are “Humanity”, no matter where from, skin color, ancestry, manner of dress, or anything else.”

Well said. A progressive mantra – and one that conservative nativists utterly reject.

It is more fashionable now to blame foreigners but American oligarchs directly fighting American workers is more fundamental. “Right- to- work”, ‘trickle-down’, deregulation, etc. – ‘American vs American’, 1% vs 99%.

“ We wouldn’t have done that.”

True. The US and others would not admit to shooting down a passenger plane. SOP is deny, deny, deny; insist on a lengthy international investigation then discredit it if it embarrasses you.
The Iranian people seem to be protesting their government’s action more than nationals of other countries have done when th…[Read more]

Conservatives everywhere do hate it when anyone, athletes included, express political opinions. You don’t hear progressive countries insisting on patriotic displays from their athletes not do they live in fear that there will be ‘unpatriotic displays’ at the Olympics or elsewhere.

So true. But I can hear the cries from conservative nativists of “open-borders Bernie”. Their playbook is pretty predictable.

Damn! Just when the CT’s were gearing up, Iran has to go and admit to this? They are killing the online CT business with their reckless admission! ;)

SOP in an accident like this is to insist on an international investigation’ – which takes years. If that investigation concludes that you did shoot down the plane, you then attack the leg…[Read more]

Don, Bernie is a real populist; not a pretend version like you who governs a typical trickle-down/austerity conservative. Good luck attacking a real populist.

If I do not want it to be true then it is not. (And any ‘evidence’ to the contrary is part of a conspiracy.)

“It” = ‘climate change’ (a well-known Chinese conspiracy), the ‘fallacy of trickle down economics’ (a socialist conspiracy), and anything else that makes my ‘side’ look bad or the other ‘side’ look good.

In this conservative world ther…[Read more]

It is a GREAT sign when Trump and the GOP focus their faux ‘populist’ attacks on Bernie.

Conspiracy theories are more fun than the idea that a passenger plane was accidentally hit by a missile during a military conflict.

A passenger airline’s engine catch’s fire during a military conflict involving middles. Sometimes the most obvious conclusion is correct though conservatives will squeeze their version of the ‘facts’ into their favorite conspiracy theory. It’s what they do.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Biden said the same. I would be surprised if Bernie said it. Finding a progressive, republican is highly unlikely.

When you spend billions on ‘hammers’ (more than the next 10 countries combined), the world seems to be full of problems that can, with a little imagination, look a lot like ‘nails’. :)

If progressives had not pushed Pelosi and the centrists into impeachment, corporate Dems would have stood up to Trump on other issues? I don’t think so.
Most progressives in congress support both impeachment AND standing up to Trump on these other issues.

You mean that ‘trickle-down’ doesn’t work? Whatever will economic conservatives campaign on now?

BUT he tweets and speaks like a populist, ‘America First’ nationalist. Does that count for anything other than to serve as a distraction from his corporatist governing on behalf of the elite?