As a leftist, if you had a chance to switch out the Democrats with the Green Party...

I literally lol'd.

Also, feel like asking again. If corporations are not people, does it not logically follow that they are not entitled to Constitutional protections?

 

I guess if the green party seized the ~10 to ~15 trillion held in offshore bank holdings by the global elite then this agenda could work.

Seems to be the only solution to the agenda given the rapid transfer of public debt <-->privately held wealth over the last 30 years. Data on the problem:
http://www.taxjustice.net/cms/front_content.php?idcat=103

 

No reason the Cold War couldn't have been less involved and consequently cheaper, and that we couldn't have then funded and compelled banks, the FHA, higher education and corporations to build more efficient and integrated institutions and housing out of the gate.

 

No, I wouldn't. But I would like to see the Democratic Party stand up for and get serious about its core values, serious enough to fight for them, so the Green Party wouldn't feel the need to take up the considerable slack. We'll find out next week where they're at with that.

I think one way in which Obama drew a lucky opponent in Romney is that Romney will bring out the fighter in Obama. Every single person that has ever run against Romney winds up hating him in a deeply personal way. It's not like the usual opponents' friction; they really, really hate the guy. Early indicators seem to show Obama getting a little fire in the belly as a result of this. I hope to see that at our convention next week.

In other news, Paul Ryan gave one of the most successful convention speeches I've witnessed, but why is it these guys can't make a single formal statement or run a single commercial without lying? Apart from the big lies that all the fact-checkers and newspapers are pointing out in the Ryan speech, did every single speaker have to echo that out-of-context lie that Obama said "you didn't build that?"

If you have to lie to win, if you have to quote your opponent out of context to come up with your central argument against him, if you need to withhold your plans to have a chance ('if we told you what we'd do, you wouldn't vote for us'), if you'd be in more trouble with the electorate by showing your tax returns than by hiding them and taking that big hit, why would anyone vote for you except as a way of getting rid of the other guy?

More than half the country likes Obama even though some of those people don't agree with him. The number of people salivating to get him out of office are a distinct minority. That's Romney's base. He doesn't have anyone voting FOR him; only people voting AGAINST Obama. Because Romney has no core and, as Huckabee said, he "has no soul." And because no one in his campaign or party can seem to give a speech that doesn't revolve around a flat-out lie.

If you vote GOP in this election, you are a sucker.