The basis of all left-wing criticism of the New Deal since the 1940s is that it preserved the status quo. Which is a far more convincing criticism than conservative horseshit about the New Deal being ineffective or a road to serfdom. -OS
Socialist and/or communist parties never gained a broad appeal in the United States because reformers and liberals enacted all of their most popular and sensible ideas into law. The CPUSA became a joke because of the New Deal. It wasn't a joke in 1933. -OS
The most powerful versions the Democratic Party that ever existed ranged from John Calhoun to David Wilmot or from Theodore Bilbo to Henry Wallace. -OS
Every Troy Jackson story since Platner dropped out:
Troy Jackson threw a bottle…
…at the ground and he and his colleague made up afterwards.
Troy Jackson was a pro life and anti gay republican…
…in 2000.
Troy Jackson made internet posts…
…trolling republicans.
@TheAleksee wealthy centrists. makes sense considering a city notorious for voting Democratic throughout American history was still able to produce Republican mayors now and then
It's so tiresome to hear people who we all know would have backed Pat Buchanan in 1992,
Pretend "WELL ACHSUALLY I'd have supported *Reasonable* Bill Clinton"
@smomwetgobam The GOP primary is an Uncle Tom, a guy who decided explicit racism was the only way to win, and a groyper
We should just let that state sink into the ocean
There isn’t enough discourse about how Ted Cruz basically can’t show his face in Houston because the last time he appeared at a major event in public someone threw a beer can at his head and then the grand jury no billed the dude.
Perplexed by the white supremacist fascination with the ancient world -- when the blond and red-haired denizens of what is now Western Europe were by far the least technologically, economically, and politically sophisticated people on the planet. -OS