Doctor_J
Doctor_J's JournalThat's the president beating the living shit out of the republicans -
his merciless, cut throat, ultra liberal payback for those six years of torment. I read that in a 200- rec thread just yesterday. So it must be true
it's a lot like the support for Obama in 2008
Based on the astute observation that most of us are getting screwed, and most of the politicians are helping the screwers. Obama's campaign rhetoric turned out to be bullshit, and his duplicity has nearly killed the party. Hopefully Warren can get elected AND actually follow through on her populism. But I think the experience with Obama has jaded a lot of people.
Can the torture issue be distilled down to this?
By refusing to hold Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and the rest responsible, is the Obama administration an accessory after the fact to the war crimes? Sully says yes. I will not vote in this poll
We all participate within the du bubble. everybody here is going to vote straight
ticket. The idea that any regular duer is going to stay home because of our lively intramural poop-throwing is preposterous. Same with the desperate-sounding email from dccc, dfa, and so on.
Thanks for the shout out, sometimes the obvious needs to bepointed out.
Err...
Same thing with someone who would be turned off voting due to negative posts on a web site
hard to believe that fracking, off shore drilling, austerity, for profit health insurance,
Race to the bottom, another war, more poverty, TPP, and the prospect of HRC 16 doesn't have everyone fired up.
I'd be more impressed if they found a teabagger who ISN'T confused
that would be a very rare being
Americans horribly, dangerously uninformed and misinformed about ACA
If anything, the trend is going in the opposite direction, with the public having actually become less informed with time: Levels of awareness of other key provisions have either remained stable or declined over time.
For example, the shares who are aware of the law's subsidies, Medicaid expansion, and closing of the Medicare prescription drug "doughnut hole" have all decreased since right after the law's passage in 2010 (by 12 percentage points, 6 percentage points, and 7 percentage points, respectively). This leaves substantial shares unaware that the law includes each of these key provisions.
The public is not just uninformed, but also misinformed, about the most consequential social reform signed into law in many decades. More than half of Americans reported to Kaiser that a public option was, in fact, included in the ACA. More than 40 percent believe that the law provides subsidies to undocumented immigrants to purchase health insurance, establishes something very closely resembling a death panel, and cuts benefits for seniors currently enrolled in Medicare (43 percent, 42 percent and 42 percent, respectively).
More:
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19279-the-american-publics-shocking-lack-of-policy-knowledge-is-a-threat-to-progress-and-democracy
Hate Radio and Cable "News" are a clear and present danger to the country
Which, if either, of these describes you
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