The Thread of Democrats

[Brian Peacock]

[JimC]

Not an edifying sight, a political party acting like squabbling children...

Is the concept of unity unknown in American political circles?

[Tero]

Yeah, if they had just stated their healthcare stand and gone on with it, saying "I have a different plan, let the voters decide.."

[Sean Hayden]

Democratic donor Ed Buck charged with operating drug house after 2 men found dead in home

Prosecutors said Buck lures his victims into his home, baiting them with drugs, money and shelter.
“From his home, in a position of power, Buck manipulates his victims into participating in his sexual fetishes,” prosecutors wrote in court papers. “These fetishes include supplying and personally administering dangerously large doses of narcotics to his victims.... Not deterred by the senseless deaths of Moore and Dean, the defendant nearly killed a third victim last week.”
The latest victim, identified in court papers as Joe Doe, went to Buck’s apartment on Sept. 4, where Buck “personally and deliberately” administered a large dose of methamphetamine, prosecutors said. Concerned he was suffering an overdose, the man left the apartment to get medical help. He returned to Buck’s apartment on Sept. 11, when Buck again injected him with “two dangerously large” doses of methamphetamine, prosecutors said.

https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... drug-house

[Brian Peacock]

Whoops. Wait till they find out the Koch brothers were being pumped with hormones drained from homeless Mexican children!

[Sean Hayden]

That's obscene! Mexican hormones should be distributed evenly among Americans.

[Brian Peacock]

Who are the Democrats? I don't understand who they are and what they stand for. At least the Republicans are undeniably "More money for us and f*ck you!" but what do the Dems stand for other than just, like, not being Republican?

[JimC]

They are a house divided...

[Tero]

They are the people who used to regulate. People forgot. We even got healthcare regulated, for the first time.

[Woodbutcher]

When you have only two political parties you have a binary system. It's either 1 or 0, there are no compromises.

[Brian Peacock]

I seem to remember some research or report that concluded that when you had plurality voting (one non-transferable vote per person; first past the post; winner takes all, etc) then a two party selection process becomes inevitable.

[laklak]

I don't really understand why we can't have multiple parties, I see no structural reasons preventing it. It's like American football, there's no real reason it can't be played more like rugby, other than they can load more advertising into the breaks in play.

[Brian Peacock]

Duverger's law.

[Tero]

Nancy made some kind of deal
https://www.statnews.com/2019/09/24/dem ... hrma-cash/
Some sort pharma involvement.

[Brian Peacock]

If it happens I'll predict that it's going to be at least as great as Trump's tax deal.