Appropo of nothing..the best depiction of the Republican Congress that I've ever seen.
If Congress was your co-worker by Joss Whedon.
If Congress was your co-worker by Joss Whedon.
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I LOVE this.
That's great. I enjoyed this, too:
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I notice that on any forum I've seen do this the majority of posters are in the green block for Libertarian Left, yet politicalcompass.org gives overviews of general elections in various countries which invariably have the largest parties all bunched up in the blue box for authoritarian right, the Green party way out in the green box and the other two boxes basically empty.
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One mistake of the quiz is that it asks us to make philosophical rather than practical choices. For instance, the idea that I could support revolution in certain theoretical circumstances tells you very little about how much I respect the current government or its practices. Alternatively, the idea that I could ever theoretically agree with a protectionist policy tells you very little about whether or not I would support NAFTA or TPP.
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That is brilliant. Also, I held together just fine right up until Martin Sheen started talking. What the hell is it about Martin Sheen that I want to vote for him as President?!
Definitely a moderate liberal. I have progressive values overall, but I think the best way to achieve those goals is incremental progress, not revolution or "burn it down" populism. I'm what demographers would call a "safe" or "reliable" Democrat. As a 20-something, I tend to be more moderate than many of my friends. More NPR than Democracy Now, let's say.
Yeah sure, the whole industry needs to be reorganized top-to-bottom. It should really start with grading and capping malpractice payments (extreme/sarcastic example: Doctor amputated the wrong hand so i'm suing for $500 million) and move on to reducing bureaucratic requirements. I think the most important change that would reduce costs and which would require an act of congress would be for a private/public database of medical treatments (surgeries, therapies, drugs etc) and the actual retail value* of these, organized by state. None this "I"ll charge the insurance company $2,000 and they pay $350" business.
That's one of the main reasons why I cancelled my Labour Party membership in September after being a member since 2001 (just before I joined TrekBBS, coincidentally). I cannot be a member while it's lead by a man who doesn't even want to, or is capable, or getting Labour back in power. I also find the ma himself incredibly dodgy, having a history of supporting extreme causes and positions. Corbyn has no place in a mainstream centre-left party, in any other European country he'd be leading a fringe far-left party with a dozen MPs at most.
I'd disagree with your 'centre left' assessment. You joined when they were pretty centre right. They're now going straight 'left'...
I saw that, they didn't get the humour in the original piece.
Well, right there are some people who don't like other, more recognizable people expressing opinions contradicting their own. Or, you know, paid un-famous actors.
Also, hit the delete button 30,000 times?! Don't these people know there's a "Delete All" option?
I'm politically non-Euclidean. There wasn't an option for that, so I decided to comment it and not vote in the poll. 
And when they were straight left and in power the country was an economic basket case.
It was. It doesn't have to be.
Or are you saying ONLY Thatcherist policies can succeed ?
The so-called New Labour years under Tony Blair typically undergo comparison to a "classic" or "traditional" Labour government, referring to a time before the premiership of Margaret Thatcher.
I always wonder quite how the tradition is defined in this case since, so far as I can tell, there were only ever three which would fit the description: the post-war Attlee ministry (1945-51) the first Wilson ministry (1964-70) and the Wilson/Callaghan government (1974-79). To get other examples one would have to venture further to the governments of Ramsay MacDonald, but they would be stretching the definition somewhat.
In any case the last time a traditional Labour government achieved a strong majority in the House of Commons was 1966.
I always wonder quite how the tradition is defined in this case since, so far as I can tell, there were only ever three which would fit the description: the post-war Attlee ministry (1945-51) the first Wilson ministry (1964-70) and the Wilson/Callaghan government (1974-79). To get other examples one would have to venture further to the governments of Ramsay MacDonald, but they would be stretching the definition somewhat.
In any case the last time a traditional Labour government achieved a strong majority in the House of Commons was 1966.
Left by Australian terms, which would be far left in the USA.
Bollocks. It was firmly on the centre-left of the British political spectrum, and introduced much social reform, including the minimum wage, expanded the welfare state and public investment, workplace and social rights... Compared to the (actually centre-right) Conservative government it replaced, it was like night and day. Yes, it wasn't perfect by a long distance, and did a lot wrong while in power, but calling it "centre-right" while in power is absurd.
(People need to realise that what Blair did to the Labour Party basically happened to nearly all other similar social-democratic parties across Europe, North America and Australasia around the same time, incidentally.)
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