that so many of yesterdays progressives have turned into assholes all for money and fame?

Thanks for the link! And Miss Precious Perfect is gorgeous!!

Constitutional Scholar. Everything he's touched has turned to shit.

I don't care what his Labor Dept. says, a 'recovery' based on jobs that involve the phrase "would you like ketchup or mustard with your order' is not really a recovery at all. It's the final shovelful of dirt on our ability to earn a decent living.

called any candidate who advocates policies representing meaningful reform. Nader, Kucinich, Sharpton etc. -- anyone trying to give voice to the people's concerns is dismissed as running for "vanity". More generally, anybody who ever achieves any sort of public "notoriety" for demanding meaningful social justice is dismissed as a narcissist, an egomaniac, and/or a huckster: Again, Nader, Kucinich, Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, et al.

I used to get into it with anastasiap over Dennis Kucinich, whom she viewed as an ineffective troublemaker who rubbed his colleagues the wrong way and thus never accomplished anything. Simultaneously, of course, others were condescendingly "informing" me that "the perfect is the enemy of the good," and calling me a "purity troll" and worse. Purity? I once posted a list of DK's platform position on something like 20 issues of importance to me. I think I agreed with him on all but 1 or 2. By contrast, no other Democratic candidate agreed with me (or Dennis) on more than 2 or 3. That's their conception of purity -- anything more than a 10 or 15% congruence in philosophy.

Meanwhile, ap's contempt notwithstanding, DK's single most-oft-cited accomplishment of saving the public electric utility in Cleveland was a more important achievement, requiring more personal and political courage, and carrying more social and economic significance to more people, than everything Hillary Rodham Clinton has ever done in her life.

People who dismiss progressive or otherwise radical candidates as being motivated by "vanity" reveal their own failure of imagination, courage, and in the end, hope: They have nothing to offer humanity but a hopeless concession to the current spiral of violence, mass deprivation, and environmental despoliation. 40 years ago, Ronald Reagan, speaking (with significant clarity, BTW) on Firing Line told the gathered assemblage of conservatives that, WRT to the soviet union, conservatives had to be able to offer the public hope for something other than inevitable eventual WWIII -- which meant offering some sort of plan for somehow getting to some sort of resolution without a nuclear exchange. If the only "plan" the conservatives offered was WWIII, then they did not deserve people's votes, and they would not get people's votes.

Well, that's exactly how I feel about the current crop of Democrats, as opposed to those who are challenging them from the left. These Democrats offer sane people -- even ordinary sane people who aren't worried about the fate of veal calves or various obscure minor species of this or that or whatever such things exercise those of us who spread our ethical concern-nets broadly -- no hope at all: No hope for mitigation of climate change; No hope for affordable education; No hope for affordable health care; No hope for job security and decent working conditions; No hope for any of the things that matter the most to most people. Instead, all they offer is Thatcherist "TINA" apologetics for our collective race to a socioeconomic abyss.

Pootie humor, right?

Maybe the deal artist ought to offer dropping out if the friend of Wall Street agreed to do the same thus leaving the field open to Stein and Johnson.

Even if Clinton wins.

Trump is Clinton. Clinton is Trump.

Clinton's the better accomplished liar, and therefore knows when and where to keep her pie-hole closed. Trump just says all the shit Clinton wishes she could say and get away with it.

There end the differences.

Now he's a lying piece of shit.

The Clinton political machine is like a Willy Wonka machine that you feed good and helpful people and things into and come out with stinking trash. Though Wonka wouldn't have one of those, I guess. It's more of a Slugworth thing.

2. Is she really, or is that a smear? I've heard both.

3. In what sense?

4. Brexit is a feeble gesture that people in Britain are using to say "We want some local control of our affairs." It's feeble because as long as they have international banking interests running the show, they won't have any local control, and they're allowing themselves to be distracted from the City and their machinations by their distrust of foreigners and the continent. That said, once Obama went over and lectured them about how they shouldn't exit, I knew that the EU must be a fairly significant piece of the neoliberal plan, so, good for them. I just wish they'd get their heads out of the xenophobia and understand that the job isn't done.

5.Trump and Clinton are equally bad, because they're the political equivalent of two pro wrestlers working together while pretending to fight. However, if they were actually fighting, they wouldn't be equally bad. Trump would be marginally better. That's the hilarious thing here: if any of this kabuki were real, a "lesser of two evils" vote would be a vote for Trump.