There are people who, disturbed by "big government" today and its tendency to curb the advantages they might gain if their competitiveness were allowed free flow, demand "less govern- ment." Alas, there is no such thing as less government, merely changes in government. If the libertarians had their way, the distant bureaucracy would vanish and the local bully would be in charge. Personally, I prefer the distant bureaucracy, which may not find me, over the local bully, who certainly will. And all historical precedent shows a change to localism to be for the worse.

—Isaac Asimov, Nice Guys Finish First, collected in The Sun Shines Bright, 1981

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It was a hostile takeover. One of the original founders tried to prevent it from happening.

"I tried to find out who was playing Baldur's Gate 3, but all I found was this worthless pile of sexual abuse evidence!" [Throws cardboard box into incinerator]

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Person A: I like the Star Wars prequels!

Me: That's your right.

PA: They're my favorite Star Wars!

Me: You're allowed to like whatever you want.

PA: They're better than the original trilogy!

Me: [Through gritted teeth] There's no such thing as objectively good or bad media so...

PA: Anakin is a tragic hero!

Me: Okay so...

I wish 10 Republicans would eat racist for lunch, because then we'd be down to 9 Republicans!

Which indicates that policy is secondary to messaging. On every substantive policy metric, Democrats are better than Republicans. People even say they prefer Democratic policies over Republicans' when polled, by wide margins. So it must be the messenger and the way the message is being conveyed that is losing elections. That's not to say that policies don't matter, they absolutely do, but if you've got great policies and shit messaging, then you're not going to win voters over, no matter how much better you are.

I don't actually think it's productive to debate whether Bernie would have won or not. I can think one thing and another person can think another, and we can argue forever and it'll achieve virtually nothing. What I will absolutely assert is that, on paper, there's no reason why Bernie Sanders, a socialist Jew from the second least-populous state in the nation, should be so successful, so he must be doing something that resonates with a lot of people! He's acknowledging that people feel abandoned by the system and he's demanding that something be done about that. Demanding change has been the source of all the biggest political success stories since Barack Obama. If the DNC can't recognize the power in that, then they're never going to get anywhere.

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No one will ever find our red-headed girl with a dappling of freckles on her nose and cheeks attractive!