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[boredom]Oh, noes. Millenials aren't preferring Democrats.[/boredom] I might note the millenials interviewed and the trajectories of the poll show that millenials are interested in various issues, but they're not the ones that either party is necessarily making a plank of, like affordable living, good health care, and not being in crushing debt. Also, many of those profoound shifts are among white people, who have a history of wanting to protect themselves at the expense of others when they think they're doing okay, and especially white men, who are probably not feeling all that on top of the world with all the revelations and actual stuff happening that used to be swept away or could be bought off.
Given that the United States has several structural and social problems that its politicians mostly refuse to deal with, you could be forgiven for thinking that perhaps all of those disaffected people are so because there's nobody in power that seems to give enough of a damn to actually want to try fixing any of it.
Having not yet made it to the midpoint of their first term, the Administration has unveiled their re-election campaign slogan, unsurprisingly using the same general theme as the first campaign.
Could 2018 be a year that finally gets the Equal Rights Amendment into place? The #metoo movement has provided a lot of awareness of how far equality for women has yet to come.
The youngest of our generations has grown up their entire lives seeing the hypocrisy of the generations before, and is calling bull on it, which is not magic. What could be magic is the way that these kids were raised to believe they had power and a place at the table when it came to the issues.
Even as their own EPA concludes that minorities are way more likely to be exposed to pollutants and toxins, the Administration continue to work to roll back environmental proections. Because science does not have more strength than ideology in this government. Otherwise, they might want to take more seriously the hypothesis that lead and crime have correlations - less lead can lead to reduced crime. and possibly less lead can lead to less deaths and toxic health conditions.
Of course, that infection is not restricted to the conservative delegations. plenty of conservative or centrist Democrats are willing to sell out minorities so they can enrich big banks and those likely to set off another housing crisis. (The bill has at least passed the Senate.)
Unsurprisingly, despite the economy doing well, it's all going to the rich, and the poor are getting squeezed even harder. And heaven help them if they have children that need diapers, because those diapers will eat your budget alive, even more so if you have public assistance dollars.
It's tough to be Jeff Sessions, caught between the competing demands of being loyal to the Administrator and running an agency that's independent of him. The more vitriol that gets heaped on him, the more likely is is that Mr. Sessions is being the Attorney General instead of a lackey.
Consequences of trying to initiate a trade war - other countries are more than happy to respond.
An attempt at rolling out a new system for veterans' care hit more than a few speed bumps and issued along the way.
A White House official violated the Hatch Act (which prevents partisan politics being mixed with one's official duties), but nobody seems willing to prosecute. Prseumably because they don't see anything wrong with being a partisan from the White House.
An anti-Clinton video game released a little while before the election clearly came from Russian sources, adding another possible source of propaganda for everything.
The War on (Some) Drugs is considering killing more people for dealing drugs.
Regarding the likely impasse on guns, having the historical context of the Second Amendment makes it even more likely that the matter is specifically about militias and not about general rights to own whatever you like. Predictably, the NRA filed suit over Florida's tiny measures toward controlling weapons. Truthfully, though, it's going to take media folks actually saying out loud that the obsession with guns that the States has is not what people in the States want before someone might take them seriously. (Because there are plenty of ordinary people that have been shouting this for a long time, to no real avail from the elected politicians.) Because we've known for a long time already that "gun culture" is out on the fringe of respectability.
Putting police officers in schools may not actually make them any safer. Because a lot of people who "get scared" and shoot not-white people, even though they have been theoretically trained on how not to shoot first, are the police. And really, they're not even giving someone an opportunity to comply with them, nor identifying themselves, before they start shooting.
Science is no impediment to implementing your agenda, says the party that believes you can't be fit to serve if you're trans. Unsurprisingly, the courts say "You may want to re-think that position", and plenty of fights are on their way as the same administration tries to roll back protections for trans people in other arenas.
There's plenty of smug in the style of conservatism - it's just that commentators don't go after it, often because it seems to be the sort of thing that would make a political liberal seem like they were making fun of values that liberals hold some of.
Oh, and remember that we're still failing Puerto Rico, while we suggest taht they cut their government in a desperate attempt to try and stave off more financial ruin. That sounds very familiar as a tactic, but it's meant to impoverish somewhere that already has been hit hard.
Last out, It's beginning to look like Occam's Razor is now that everyone who could be guilty of cooperation with Russia...is guilty of cooperation with Russia. The evidence just needs to be accumulated. And while the House believes they're done and there's no reason to believe there as any coordination, even their own members are saying the job done to arrive at that conclusion was not up to standards. All Hail the Special Counsel, I suppose.
Additionally, a fudraising campaign connecting tech workers with candidates in races that need some extra cash to open more field offices and be liberal in more conservative places.
[boredom]Oh, noes. Millenials aren't preferring Democrats.[/boredom] I might note the millenials interviewed and the trajectories of the poll show that millenials are interested in various issues, but they're not the ones that either party is necessarily making a plank of, like affordable living, good health care, and not being in crushing debt. Also, many of those profoound shifts are among white people, who have a history of wanting to protect themselves at the expense of others when they think they're doing okay, and especially white men, who are probably not feeling all that on top of the world with all the revelations and actual stuff happening that used to be swept away or could be bought off.
Given that the United States has several structural and social problems that its politicians mostly refuse to deal with, you could be forgiven for thinking that perhaps all of those disaffected people are so because there's nobody in power that seems to give enough of a damn to actually want to try fixing any of it.
Having not yet made it to the midpoint of their first term, the Administration has unveiled their re-election campaign slogan, unsurprisingly using the same general theme as the first campaign.
Could 2018 be a year that finally gets the Equal Rights Amendment into place? The #metoo movement has provided a lot of awareness of how far equality for women has yet to come.
The youngest of our generations has grown up their entire lives seeing the hypocrisy of the generations before, and is calling bull on it, which is not magic. What could be magic is the way that these kids were raised to believe they had power and a place at the table when it came to the issues.
Even as their own EPA concludes that minorities are way more likely to be exposed to pollutants and toxins, the Administration continue to work to roll back environmental proections. Because science does not have more strength than ideology in this government. Otherwise, they might want to take more seriously the hypothesis that lead and crime have correlations - less lead can lead to reduced crime. and possibly less lead can lead to less deaths and toxic health conditions.
Of course, that infection is not restricted to the conservative delegations. plenty of conservative or centrist Democrats are willing to sell out minorities so they can enrich big banks and those likely to set off another housing crisis. (The bill has at least passed the Senate.)
Unsurprisingly, despite the economy doing well, it's all going to the rich, and the poor are getting squeezed even harder. And heaven help them if they have children that need diapers, because those diapers will eat your budget alive, even more so if you have public assistance dollars.
It's tough to be Jeff Sessions, caught between the competing demands of being loyal to the Administrator and running an agency that's independent of him. The more vitriol that gets heaped on him, the more likely is is that Mr. Sessions is being the Attorney General instead of a lackey.
Consequences of trying to initiate a trade war - other countries are more than happy to respond.
An attempt at rolling out a new system for veterans' care hit more than a few speed bumps and issued along the way.
A White House official violated the Hatch Act (which prevents partisan politics being mixed with one's official duties), but nobody seems willing to prosecute. Prseumably because they don't see anything wrong with being a partisan from the White House.
An anti-Clinton video game released a little while before the election clearly came from Russian sources, adding another possible source of propaganda for everything.
The War on (Some) Drugs is considering killing more people for dealing drugs.
Regarding the likely impasse on guns, having the historical context of the Second Amendment makes it even more likely that the matter is specifically about militias and not about general rights to own whatever you like. Predictably, the NRA filed suit over Florida's tiny measures toward controlling weapons. Truthfully, though, it's going to take media folks actually saying out loud that the obsession with guns that the States has is not what people in the States want before someone might take them seriously. (Because there are plenty of ordinary people that have been shouting this for a long time, to no real avail from the elected politicians.) Because we've known for a long time already that "gun culture" is out on the fringe of respectability.
Putting police officers in schools may not actually make them any safer. Because a lot of people who "get scared" and shoot not-white people, even though they have been theoretically trained on how not to shoot first, are the police. And really, they're not even giving someone an opportunity to comply with them, nor identifying themselves, before they start shooting.
Science is no impediment to implementing your agenda, says the party that believes you can't be fit to serve if you're trans. Unsurprisingly, the courts say "You may want to re-think that position", and plenty of fights are on their way as the same administration tries to roll back protections for trans people in other arenas.
There's plenty of smug in the style of conservatism - it's just that commentators don't go after it, often because it seems to be the sort of thing that would make a political liberal seem like they were making fun of values that liberals hold some of.
Oh, and remember that we're still failing Puerto Rico, while we suggest taht they cut their government in a desperate attempt to try and stave off more financial ruin. That sounds very familiar as a tactic, but it's meant to impoverish somewhere that already has been hit hard.
Last out, It's beginning to look like Occam's Razor is now that everyone who could be guilty of cooperation with Russia...is guilty of cooperation with Russia. The evidence just needs to be accumulated. And while the House believes they're done and there's no reason to believe there as any coordination, even their own members are saying the job done to arrive at that conclusion was not up to standards. All Hail the Special Counsel, I suppose.
Additionally, a fudraising campaign connecting tech workers with candidates in races that need some extra cash to open more field offices and be liberal in more conservative places.
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Date: 2018-05-10 03:07 pm (UTC)One thing that personally affects me with PR's problems is the syringes that I use for my weekly antibody infusions are manufactured there. The replacement syringes that I'm being supplied with are not designed to fit my pump. I'm going to have to work out how to make them fit, and electrical tape may be my best option.
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Date: 2018-05-11 06:11 am (UTC)