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I'm only quoting this because it's a perfect example of why conservatives are so easily conned by a charlatan like Trump. @Master-Debater131- This "meme" naturally explains the problem with comparing a conservative coalition with a progressive one. When your basic model is maintaining the status quoa, your ideology doesn't change much as time progresses. You might tailor the message to meet the current climate or you might attempt to soften some instances of blatant exclusion (bigotry, racism, or xenophobia) to better reach minority voters. In general, though, you're still just selling people on the fact that things are fine just as they are and how they've always been. When you attempt to put various social movements together under one progressive banner, however, you get a mirage as to where the extreme elements of your coalition may or may not be. The sensation of progressives becoming more and more extreme is less about these elements suddenly appearing as the meme above might suggest and more about suddenly trying to compare progressive movements against each other. Make no mistake, the year 2012 brought with it some key social movements that continued to gain momentum during the misrule of Trump. Movements like "Black Lives Matter" were always in existence, but the uptick in police violence made the issue tangibly real and made racism a lightening rod for some progressive voters. Similarly, the recovery from the 2008 crash opened up fissures between the companies that benefitted from an accommodating Fed and workers with wages that increasingly fail to provide sustenance. These are just examples, of course: how much influence (if any at all) each of these or any other progressive movement has is subject to debate. The point is that the progressive rallying around each of these movement can seem incompatible to centrists of even each other. @NewBluntsworth being the clown he is, illustrates this, and it highlights how there is no real "extreme" left that relates to centerists.

It hasn't changed. Demographics are mostly irrelevant here. By being conservative, the GOP really has only one effective ideology, that being maintaining the status quoa with the minimum cost. That's not a knock, it's a general feature of any conservative party in any system and it's particularly effective in an Electoral College system that allows for fewer supporters to maintain power. Progressivism is by its vary nature a much more loose coalition, with each group rallying around its own unique ideology and the broader party being a coalition of those members working together to help each out. It's about a bunch of people with fundamental disagreements working together to get their own agendas the into play. To put in a far more simpler terms, for Republicans the combined action and the goal are one in the same, for Democrats the combined action is a means to separate goals. Also, that makes the one pitfall to a narrow coalition being that if that smaller cohort begins to purge moderates instead of outliers, which is what Trump is trying to do now. By allowing a celebrity with no real political acumen control of a powerful and fairly stable political entity, they've committed the one fatal mistake they can create when it comes to maintaining power.

Oh really? What are you hoping Nancy finds out?

He does now. I would imagine the agent probably thought it was a completely unenforceable part of the contract and let it in as a sign of goodwill as the Cardinals were about to give Murray a huge payday. Those are the kinds of things that end up in contracts all the time but never see the light of day for this reason. If the agent had come out right away and called the release a lie or a mischaracterization, a lot of the damage could have been mitigated. But, the bigger issue is that someone in the Arizona's front office allowed this out. They're giving the guy this much money only to sabotage him right out of the gate? Not only that, but they're damaging his value across the league meaning he's going to be difficult to trade if (or when) things don't work out in a year or so. Word is it's the owner himself leaked it.

He's what we need more of across the country.

Well, they nominated awful candidates because they're in even more disarray than the Democrats. When you allow a know usurper to have the kind of influence he has on your party, you set yourself up for this exact problem.

He only got pissed when everyone else correctly pointed out how much shit he's going to get even if he does great. The Cardinals really fucked him over, and his agent didn't do anything to stop it.

Happy Birthday, dude.

Aww shit.

Wow. @1pooh4u actually made P-Stoned speechless.

*Googles* I guess it was a matter of time before Aloha Stadium was structurally unfit. Place looked kinda scary last time I was there...apparently just before it got shut down.

Kaskade!

It's not a lot.... Unless you already overpaid for a shitty electric car.

Might be your browser.

Obviously.

@tsar4... you know you can imbed twitter posts, right?

They didn't just mess up bad, they broke the law messed up bad.

Well, that's one way to piss off your loyal customers.

"Freebird" been playing non-stop in my head for years.

By no means. In fact, we would have likely had less of an opportunity to insert ourslelves in the China Taiwan dispute by being more neutral instead of playing both sides. It really derives from, as you would say, the U.S. acting like a king maker while dealing with another king maker when cozying up to China.

Sorry, no lesbian down syndrome baby mamas over here. Westie like his bimdoes a certain way....

I would say that policy has been a mistake for all 50 of those years, especially since the CCP had never particularly made overtures of reconciliation with the DCP. Not that we necessarily ever needed to acknowledge Taiwan as an independent country, just not acknowledge One China. These little errors always tend to become huge when you're dealing with an autocracy.

I'm sold.