OK. You cross a line. Because I don't believe in torturing POWs, starving citizens caught between bombs, that means I support terrorism?
You cross a line.
You don't kick puppies and you don't kick a person already down.
So, you want to be able to buy adulterated bread? Someone scams you on remodeling, that's OK? Sell bathtub gin to you?
Have your employer take advantage of you?
The free market taken to the extreme allows for this.
No- committees find a way to make it worse. Republican politicians already made it worse for many people in this administration.
I guess that life, liberty, and so on has no meaning.
And?
It's called humanitarianism.
Without that, are we humans? Or vengeful animals?
Oh. I guess all my years of administering health insurance amounts to nothing.
The ACA was pushed through too fast and not thought through well AND was tinkered with to boot.
The mandate was stupid, yes. The pre-existing condition thing was good to get rid of.
Medical insurance is a mess, period.
So? What's the point?
There were US Nazis in the early 20th Century.
And British.
People are stupid.
Besides Bernie Sanders and Ritchie Torres?
Hey! I don't like Hamas myself.
Nothing wrong with a free market- as long as no one cheats or takes undue advantage.
Competition in insurance companies has been tried before. How it started out.
Community support doesn't need to come from bible thumpers. It comes from community.
I don't want to talk about an era that I lived through as a child and that makes me very sad to see a possibility of it happening again.
Or Tokyo Rose? Propaganda happens. Learn to discern it. Or not.
I really find the sweeping use of "progressive" renders your position null as the term applies to a much larger group that has a spectrum of beliefs.
They aren't necessarily "supporting" Iran and the regime.
Most really are against the war.
During the Nam era, people protested the war and did NOT support communism. People were tired of war every generation.
Conservatives have their own version.
To each what they can pay for; according to their current productivity. Self-worth is measured by banking accounts.
That's inimical to most of the people with progressive views I know or know of. Still you use huge brushes.
I guess they'll be closing a lot of locations in NYC. Or in Burlington VT.
They did that in Israel. Ma'alot Massacre. 1974.
Such progress made. Now the US does it and the leadership is callous about it.
War kills innocence and innocents.
Snort- a discussion about the US turns into the USSR?
Culture does play its part.
Why can't you accept that every group has people who are less than socially acceptable?
Murder, Inc showed that organized crime isn't only Catholic Italians, for instance.
(3) citizenship at the time of the vote, not registering to vote. And it's not a real problem. It's just a scare tactic designed to divert attention away from real problems.
(2) allowed to vote. Not all has a street address and get mail at a post office. It's too close to the Jim Crow laws.
That's the real problem. If voter ID was limited to showing registration in a precinct, not many would have a problem. I had to do that in the 80's. But it's not; it's proving...
That's not it. I researched it. And with developments about proving citizenship, they are rightly concerned that married women who take their husband's name will be disenfranchised. My niece had to cancel her honeymoon due to these new things. If one doesn't have a street address, they are not...(1)
When I started to vote in WV, I had to show my registration card, to be checked against the records to prove I could vote in that precinct. Nothing wrong with that. What is proposed with Voter ID is not that, or proof of citizenship. Indians have been denied due to their nonstandard addresses. Bad.
Um... the two are not equivalent.
The SSN is needed for tax reasons. Problems are caused in Payroll without it.
Validation of work authority is needed by law. www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/...
The voter ID isn't simple, as I found out. The approaches can deny citizens the vote. I researched it.
I wonder- do you know about payroll and its requirements for IDs for the I-9s- something needed to get the job?
Even temporary workers need to present them.
It's not doublethink- it's the law.
So let's just present the situation in an misinformed light for polical smear points.
Up their noses?
Whatever. Arguing with you resembles too much arguing with that guy when something's stuck in his head, despite all evidence to the contrary.
The effects of religion can be tested and predicted as well as progressive ideas through historical and sociological analysis.
Doesn't make progressivism a religion as there is a lack of belief in a higher power- one that supersedes natural events or abilities.
That alone will not a religion make.
Theoretical science thus becomes a "religion"- the belief is there, but not always the quantifiable evidence.
But progressivism is NOT a religion. It does not meet the definition. It is an ideology and the passion of the adherents may reach a religious frenzy level, but that's only by metaphor.
You know that conservatism is DRIVEN by religion?
Well, it's kind of changed in the past 500 years. Some of what Luther supported, while common in his time, is no longer part of it (in general- individual congregations will vary by synod and membership).
