Joseph McCarthy --> J. Edgar Hoover --> James Comey --> Donald Trump

[IronWing]

With the exception of the (long overdue IMHO) resolution of most of the 'social wedge issues' like same-sex marriage and such, I'd argue that the last 30 years or so have been an unmitigated disaster for the left.

I agree with you on this point. The economic left is virtually unrepresented in the American political landscape. The two major parties are both profoundly conservative on economic issues. Free market orthodoxy isn't even questioned in any serious way in the halls of power. This hasn't been a good thing for the vast majority of Americans as the victorious capitalists drive down wages and benefits and reverse a century of economic progress made by the middle class.

In the coming years I expect that Congress will attack the remaining institutions of middle class prosperity and drag America back into the 19th century economic system that produced so much wealth for so few people..

 

[Blackjack200]

With the exception of the (long overdue IMHO) resolution of most of the 'social wedge issues' like same-sex marriage and such, I'd argue that the last 30 years or so have been an unmitigated disaster for the left. And while the right hasn't yet achieved complete capitulation on all its publicly stated goals (e.g. ban abortion, kill the welfare state) they've gotten their way on most of them to the maximum extent possible given our system of government and the fact there's still minority party protections in place that limit some of their most grandiose plans.

I actually agree with all of this. The right has mostly gotten their way for the last 30 years and the country has suffered for it.

Ironically while the Democrats complain about the Electoral College and so-called "structural advantages" for the Republicans, the areas that voted for Trump almost certainly have the more diverse and divergent set of political concerns than the areas which voted for Clinton and thus this seeming favoritism may be justifiable. For the most part the political concerns of the cities are going to be almost identical no matter where they are - Portland likely doesn't have a widely different set of wants from the Federal government than would Miami or Boston. Whereas the red states are so widely divergent they might as well be on different planets - the key concerns of voters in Nebraska likely show little overlap with those of Alabama, neither of which probably share any overlap with Alaska, etc.

You're making an assertion with essentially no backup here. How in the world does a Wall Street worker have the same political concerns as a single mother in Harlem? How do either of them have common political concerns with union tradesmen or public servants? Meanwhile, farmers in two different heartland states can't have overlapping political concerns?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I would like to know where "The Sheik" lives. There are no "hatespeech" laws in America.

Are you in Canada?

cornfields of illinois son, the cornfields of illinois.
and welcome to P&N.. I guess

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Whatever. Tell me more about the "hatespeech" laws in Illinois then. Feel free to elaborate.

why should I? I was referring to drumpfs' rhetoric along with bannons' and others, not sure why you're on this tangent.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Whatever. Tell me more about the "hatespeech" laws in Illinois then. Feel free to elaborate.

The only person talking about"hate speech" laws is you. Feel free to have a conversation with yourself though.