big time.

at least we had the good sense to vote for Bernie in the primary. 76 out of 77 counties feels the bern. Guess which county doesn't,
Oklahoma county our state capital is who.

First they let New Orleans drown, then they unleashed Jindal:

Tell them to go back to their home planet.

No, I mean really.

Abuse them.

They deserve far worse.....

A week ago, I took my grandchildren to a sort of aquarium where they feed sharks. It is by the ocean and south of San Diego.

One of the guides showed us a strange cone that was shaped like a spiral. It was brown and looked like it was of some cartilage sort of material. Seems it was a spiral into which certain sharks lay their eggs. They spiral burrows itself into the rocks in the ocean and in laying its eggs in that spiral, the shark protects its offspring.

Think of the many ways in which animals protect themselves and their babies. They build nests in trees and lay their eggs there where few other animals can reach them. They camouflage themselves. They change their color so that they are hard to see. These are ways that animals survive in the battle of the survival of the fittest.

Republicans like to point to this rule of the survival of the fittest to justify extreme capitalism, the sort of capitalism that, at its extreme, leaves the "failures," those it deems unfit to compete, to starve and die. We see that in Kansas and Louisiana. We hear that from the proponents of Libertarianism. Ayn Rand loved that philosophy.

But they are wrong. Humans have a mechanism that defends us against predators and dangers. That mechanism is our human society. We use language, gesture, communication of all sorts, and WE JOIN TOGETHER IN ORDERED SOCIETIES.

We protect each other in our societies. I once lived in a village with seven houses. (Not in the US.) One morning I woke up to see a house being constructed across the street from where I lived. There were some strange-looking people helping with the building. After asking my neighbors, I learned that the community was building a house for a family that had members who had some sort of disability with which I was not familiar.

As a society, that community was insuring the survival not just of the fittest but of all the community. That is what being a human being is about. Helping to build a society in which WE HUMANS TOGETHER CAN SURVIVE IN GOOD HEALTH KNOWING WE ARE WORTHY AND ARE PART OF A WHOLE THAT FUNCTIONS SUCCESSFULLY AND SAFELY.

So society and all the aspects of it from caring to language to protecting each other is what human life uses as a device to insure the survival of as many of us as possible.

The Republican philosophy is a bunch of crock. Quite simply a bunch of crock. Working together to insure a good life for each of us is what being human is about -- not just amassing a lot of money.

are socialist, as are the DOD, DOE, your local police and fire. If you are willing to pay a tiny bit more ( I say willing because mom and pops are often cheaper) for hardware item from the local store rather than Home Depot or Lowe's, then you are a socialist! Aaarrrgghh, Socialists are RUINING this country !!!!

Before he was running as a Republican, of course.

If people finally understand that simple truth from looking back over their own lifetimes -- that conservative policies ruin economies and that progressive liberal policies build stable, prosperous societies -- the Republican Party will answer. Big time.

and say "everything" does better under Democrats.

though. How often is that said? Somehow the GOP long ago convinced people it was the party of "fiscal responsibiilty" and thus a stable economy -- in the face of history.

Conservative economic and social policies always run this and any other nation into the ground. A pattern as predictable as what happens when you give the cake cutter to one of two groups in a social science experiment.

This post should be combined with the one about Trump exploiting stupid people to get where he's gotten so far.

why they are not being paid.

Have you heard the saying "the lottery is a tax on ignorance" ?

they got us into a disastrous war, tanked the economy and let a great city drown.
And two years later, the good American voters put them back in control of Congress.

It is mainly the media that lets the Republicans off the hook. If the Democrats did any one of these things, the party wold have been destroyed. We as democrats are at fault as well. we are too forgiving, we should had hit on all of those things much harder.

Obama's "no prosecutions" was a big mistake.

of their state. The GOP cannot govern, that is a fact.

failure, with our school system, including the University system, on life support. I won't even mention the roll backs in environmental protection! We need an intervention here. We can't vote them out because of gerrymandering, and gaming elections so that many are unable to vote, which I think has put Wisconsin as the #1 worst gerrymandered state in the country.

Paul Funking Ryan cannot be voted out! It's not possible without a mass die-off of Repukes in a district that has the shape of an ant farm!

Piyush Jindal and Republican Legislature have decimated Louisiana.

The major press in the state are bought, so nobody gets an honest take on what these clowns have done to appease Grover Norquist.