it is generally the most moderate members of both parties who speak at the highest grade levels

Moderates obfuscate to conceal the fact that they have no coherent political philosophy or moral compass.

Some of Obama’s best friends are homosexual, though he wouldn’t want his daughter to marry one.

This poll says more about ignorance and apathy. There are still too many people getting their information from the Military-Industrial-Government complex propaganda networks.

Now if we could get rid of Proposition 13 in CA our schools could go back to being among the best in the nation instead of at the bottom. Further,we could reduce those regressive hidden taxes that are imposed as fees, and go back to a UC system that was once affordable to the financially modest classes.

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*Before Prop 13 commercial real estate paid 75% of the property tax. After Prop 13 they pay 25%. Before Prop 13 those who wanted to raise revenue and those that did not had an equal vote. After Prop 13 the vote by those who don’t want to raise revenue counts twice as much as the vote by those who do.

I never understood the Congress poll. You could hate the things one party is doing in Congress and love the things the other party is doing. How would you respond to the poll?

(Since I hate both major parties my response, should I’m ever asked, is predictable.)

Corporate welfare is not part of the budget because we give them our money by reducing their taxes, doling out subsidies, and allowing offshore headquarters among other things. The enormous costs of our wars doesn’t appear on the budget either. Restricting the discussion of our national economic state to the budget is like typing on a keyboard with over half the keys stuck.

Eduardo Porter’s wrote:

It is true that high-income Americans carry the biggest tax burden.

Which is bullshit! A burden is proportional to your ability to carry it. The rich pay a smaller portion of their income in taxes than the middle class and poor do. And I’m referring to all taxes combined (not merely federal income tax).

How is this different from the law that makes you buy car insurance? Is that not a mandate?

I agree because owning a car in my neck of the woods is essential to having a job, for example. Since the state requires car insurance then the state should provide a low cost alternative to private insurance. The same goes for health insurance. If the US government requires health insurance then the government should provide a low cost alternative. Medicare for all who want it!!

This is an example of how the Democrats can be on the right side of an issue as long as their corporate masters don’t care about the issue.

Not good enough for me any longer.

Yes, either reveal who said it, or don’t write about it. Anonymity should only be given to the powerless who are revealing something illegal or pernicious about the powerful.

One aspect of the growing polarization and unification of political parties in America

I’m not sure what you mean by that quote, unless you are suggesting that both major parties are unifying and moving toward the upper (authoritarian) right (global, corporate controlled economic system) corner of the Political Compass.

Brad Sherman has been my rep since he first took office in 1997. He is willing to drive the US over an economic/moral cliff to support the misguided goals of conservatives in Israel. Of course, most of our fighting is done by gentiles of the lower classes.

I wonder how many young men from affluent Jewish families Brad Sherman would be willing to sacrifice in some other part of the world unrelated to Israel?

All pro choice women who have a anti-choice partner should boycott coitus. Get yourself a vibrator and tell him he can take care of his own needs. No choice, no sex!

I am finally to the point where the lesser of two evils is still too evil.

You’ve expressed my feelings succinctly! I’ll steal it for personal oral communication if you don’t mind.

Yes, it has. You pay a hell of a lot more in tuition to be pepper sprayed.

Those of us who belong to a political party need to attend local party meetings and get elected as delegates, then demand a litmus test for our parties candidates that they promise to advocate and vote for the repeal of corporate personhood. No promise, no support.

The USA is one of the best entertained and least informed societies. We are also, by design and as a result of the two party system, one of the most politically divided.

For those reasons I think there will be a lot of pain inflicted before the masses awaken and/or unite to push for freedom. There was a great deal of violence and murder inflicted by the established powers on the labor and civil rights movements. Those victim heroes suffered greatly, but not in vain.

I salute the brave demonstrators at UC Davis. May more come forward.