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Heading into the midterms, it’s a good idea to take stock of what you really want and don’t want from “your” government. Do you want the government to actually control the day-to-day operations of major business enterprises? Then the “Democratic Socialist” candidate is for you. As socialism enthusiast Erlend Kulander Kvitrud writes at Medium, “‘Democratic socialism’ is just a straight forward way of referring to ‘a democracy, leaning towards the socialist bound of the capitalist-socialist spectrum’. It is exactly what it sounds like: A system...
When government "nudges" people into new behaviors, resistance is often ugly. Eric Garner died because a Democratic governor sent the message down the line that New York was losing a billion dollars in cigarette taxes and police needed to get tough on everyone, including the guy on the corner selling "loosies." In New Jersey, the Hampton Police Department brought in millions of dollars in 18 months selling cigarettes illegally in a "sting" operation, during which no charges were filed, no arrests were made and police used proceeds to buy...
