no venezuela is not a lesson in how socialism has failed. Chavez made a mistake in allowing oligarchs in his country to maintain too much influence over yhe economy and even in political decision making. Really byron. Venezuella is more capitalist than socialist. It just has more regulations than the U.S. But the oligarchs there have more influence than they democratically should just as they do here in the U.S. The oligarchs in Venezuela have manufactured all the crisis in the nation with the full support of the western monetary system behind them. Venezuela's economy is being manipulated from abroad and within and not by socialists. You are dead wrong about the cause of Venezuela's problems. If you believe socialism is the cause it is because you have been brainwashed by western european u.s. ideology, propaganda. You are being lied to byron plain and simple. You better get alternate info sources so u can be properly informed as to what the elites of western europe and the u.s. have in store for us here in this country and for those in any other country that wants to maintain its sovereignty and govern themselves economically different.

the obama administration was not filled with progressives, but moderates and conservatives in the democratic party had all the positions of power. They stole the nomination from sanders and gave it to clinton. Even now, after progressives gave the dems a majority in the house, the conservative, centrist dems like Pelosi, Hoyer, Schumer won't behave in a democratic manner and allow the progressives to carry out their mandate for progressive policy. These centrist conservative Democrats, who love and strive to appease republicans at every turn, are behaving just like them by not relinquishing power. They want to keep the status quo. They lost and progressive ideas won. Republicans are doing this in Wisconsin, Michingan, North Carolina where they lost. I'll never v**e for a republican, but centrist, moderate, ie. conservative, Obama was the last straw for me. I'll never again v**e for any person with a murderous foreign policy again.

then why do u v**e for republicans/conservatives/libertarians who v**e 100% for deregulation. Case in point I believe mostly all republican senators opposed a net neutrality bill that would have kept isp like comcast, at&t, verizon in check. Also, these same politicians allow bar coded labels. Why do u v**e for them if you don't believe in these things. And you republicans are v****g for these types of politicians by the tens of millions. So sad.

Schumer, Pelosi, and Obama are not now and never have been progressives. And they never will be in my opinion. They are nothing but moderate, centrist democrats; by their own admission I might add. As such they are in love with the status quo of conservative republicanism which features a murderous foreign policy and a domestic agenda of austerity for regular americans and unimaginable wealth and power for the rich. In other words feudalism. Hmm. I think we had that before. How did that work out for the masses of the world? Conservative republicanism has us headed back that way fast, if we are not there already. And I think we are. And these moderate, centrist, conservative democrats, like Pelosi, Obama, and Schumer, who just love them some republicans and strive to appease them and be accepted by them and their master elites, are doing nothing to stop it.

byron, really!!! My comment to tactful proves no such thing. Oh my goodness. Unbelievable. A stunningly erroneous leap of logic on your part. On the otherhand, your saying that my comment proves a progressive, g*******t integration, and that my comment was t*****rous, does show that you, who I presume to be a conservative/republican/libertarian type, are spreading misinformation, as the author of the article we are commenting about says is done more often by people who call themselves conservatives. For your information, true progressives, of which I am one, are not g*******ts. It is my contention that conservative republican types are lied to, and brainwashed into thinking progressives are g*******ts. U are spreading false information if you say this. Yeah sure byron. People who believe social security and medicaire should be expanded are g*******ts? People who think college should be free like high school. are g*******ts? People who believe banks should be heavily regulated, are g*******ts? People who believe public schools should be fully funded and that charter schools are not public schools, are g*******ts? People who believe the minimum wage should be raised to $20.00 an hour yesterday, are g*******ts. People who believe in work place and environmental protections, are g*******ts? People who believe that U.S. military and drone bases overseas should be closed or at least severely cut, are g*******ts? People who believe that housing should be affordable and that 30 and 40 year mortages are bank ripoffs, are g*******ts? Same with cars too. People who believe that our foods should be properly labeled, and not bar-coded labeled, are g*******ts? People who believe in a real g***n e****y economy, that creates 10's of millions of well paying jobs, are g*******ts? I think not byron. So for you to say that progessives have a g*******t agenda is just you spreading false information, which the article suggests that conservatives do more often than lberals

And ur point being byron? I said exactly what I wanted to say, lol. That I agree with tactful and that i feel conservative/republicans have been brainwashed. Now it doesn't take much writing to convey that thought. Lol. And how that conveys to u a l*****t agenda is not clear to me. But that you would call what I said t*****rous, as if somehow unamerican, leads me to rest my case about you conservative/republican types. Think critically, if possible, about what you said and you will see why.

That's because you have been conditioned, ie., brainwashed, to feel that conservative, republican/libertarian values are right, normal, natural, mainstream, they way its always been, american, etc. So you are conditioned to see anyone espousing a world view different from yours as liars. It then becomes your way or the highway. As in, I see a lot of rep/con/liber types saying if u h**e america you can leave. And note l, don't differentiate very much between republicans and libertarians because for all practical purposes you are politically the same. The republican and libertarian politicians you v**e for, v**e the same way on financial, educational, domestic and foreign policy. The conservatives/republicans/libertarians caucus together in the house and senate. They are one and the same.

Tactful, lolll. I agree wholeheartedly with you. Lolll. Hey these conservative, republican types just have no idea of how completely brainwashed they are. And u just cannot convince them of it in spite of all the factual evidence. I know I'm saying lol, but it is a shame. Sad for our country.

Forget it u selfrighteous republican. Riding shotgun? Tell that crap to the people unlawfully arrested and gunned down by cops u sorry repubs let go. Or to the survivors of U.S. drones and military that u repubs support unquestioningly. What about Yemen. U repubs are a sorry lot. Doing it on their own property doesn't make it any better either u i***t. Sensible Americans don't want r****t cops or cops with bad judgement either. Doing it at home goes to their state of mind. But u repubs can't think critically to see that because u are blinded by ur hatred of black people and u are just totally hopelessly brainwashed. Me intolerant because i have nothing but contempt for murderous cops and conservative repubs who support them? U are unbelievable. No intolerant is repubs who who don't want the opposition to v**e and gerrymander districts to subvert political e******y. I'm not contemptuous of all cops just the stupid ones and murderous ones and esp. contemptuous of people like u repubs who support them. And oh my goodness you have the nerve to say you aren't intemperate??!! No, ur response is to support a mass murdering military with legislation. Ur intemperance and intolerance is to disenfranchise millions of ex felons who have served their time. Ur intemperance is to v**e for people who believe people who go to college should be in debt for life. Ur intemperance is to v**e for people who believe minimum wage should be $7.25 per hour. Ur intemperance is to v**e for people who believe there should be no net neutrality regulation. Repubs in congress don't support it. So mo i am not intolerant but u are. U are just too stupid or hopelessly brainwashrd to see it. I don't like conservative repubs. And i never will. But i won't v**e to deprive u of ur liberties.

Conservative republicans. Selfrighteous, know it alls. Delusional, brainwashed hopelessly. Really. And yes above all else also hopelessly r****t. No u silly conservative republican. I'm one of the few that is not r****t. I haven't said one anti white thing. Unless u feel that my absolute contempt for conservative republicans in the U.S. and incompetant murderous police is anti white. But i don't harbor the same contempt for other white people and moral cops. Just u republicans. I don't like conservative republicans and never will. I don't like r****t cops and never will. But i also don't like stupid cops and never will. They are dangerous. If these cops aren't r****t and i think they are, they are surely stupid. And as i said u are hopelessly brainwashed, delusional if you cannot see that what those cops did was wrong. And that their ability to properly police black communities should be seriously questioned.

U didn't answer the question u stupid silly conservative republican. And since u don't give a s**t, then just STFU. Ya stupid ass.

We have nothing to discuss as ur first sentence is a lie, ie. personal office. A precinct station is not their personal offiice. I will say this about ur conservative republican r****m which is quite evident from ur comments; I don't give a rats ass. But i don't want to be policed by u. And yes i strongly suspect those cops had r****t intent. At the very least they show poor judgement and should be psycho evaluated if thats the way they want to have fun and relieve stress as soneone else here said. As for u being aggravated, who gives a s**t. I don't.

Again u conservative republicans think there was no racial motivation, that ur choice. I am pretty sure there was. People just don't decorate christmas trees with those types of items unless they are trying to make some kind of point. I think their point was racially motivated. And nowhere did i hint that crime scenes are the province of only black people. And the yellow ribbons? What does that have to do with whether or not there was a racial motivation for what those cops did? So the cops didn't have b****s in mind u say? Ok. But I believe they did. And so would other non conservative republicans world wide.

If that is your opinion that it not r****t ok, so be it. I asked a question of you conservative republicans. I personally think that yes there is some r****m involved. And I don't want to be policed by r****t cops who are liscenced to k**l. That is definitely my business. But if you conservative republican types think that cops decorating a christmas tree with beer bottles and cigarette packs that are predominantly used by black people and fried ckicken joint cups is non r****t and all in good fun, helping them get through their oh so tough day, and the sign of a stable well balanced mind ok. That's you but not me. Normal people just don't decorate christmas trees with those items and call it fun.

Yeah. You can't answer either question. But try to preach to me and tell me what my business is or is not. Now you try to tell me where and what to read. As if I would ever value the opinion of someone such as u. Dude just stfu.