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Spang said:
The Affordable Care Act should only be replaced with a single-payer healthcare system.
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There are other ways of doing it, such as Germany's system, with which people are generally very satisfied. The ACA is a first step toward implementing that kind of system.
 
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump plans to name the former Texas governor Rick Perry as his secretary of energy.

The selection of Mr. Perry to lead the energy agency would offer a rich irony: During a televised debate in 2011, when he was seeking the Republican nomination, Mr. Perry intended to list the Department of Energy among agencies he wanted to eliminate, but he could not remember its name.

While Texas is rich in energy resources and Mr. Perry is an enthusiastic advocate of extracting them, it is not clear how that experience would translate into leading what is also a major national security agency. Despite its name, the Department of Energy plays the leading role in designing nuclear weapons and in ensuring the safety and reliability of the nation’s aging nuclear arsenal through a constellation of scientific laboratories.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/u...column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
 
The appointments for the top jobs in the new administration are making a mockery out of democracy. It's demockracy. This is perhaps the clearest example of a corporatocracy yet. It's difficult to comprehend that the citizens of a supposedly advanced, developed nation would elect as their president someone as openly unfit and reactionary.

Andy_T said:
Indeed, and as good democrats we all think they should have the right to vote...
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Maybe not all of us ...! Though it's incredibly difficult to define the criteria that should decide who should have that right.
 
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Indian Summer said:
The appointments for the top jobs in the new administration are making a mockery out of democracy. It's demockracy. This is perhaps the clearest example of a corporatocracy yet. It's difficult to comprehend that the citizens of a supposedly advanced, developed nation would elect as their president someone as openly unfit and reactionary.
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Just so.

I have woken, every day since the election, quite literally sick at the thought.
 
You know, apart from everything else, even if a best case scenario occurs and the GOP loses in 2020, the U.S.A. will never again be viewed as a stable world influence. That's gone, for good.
 
Jerry Brown strikes defiant tone: ‘California will launch its own damn satellite’

Gov. Jerry Brown, rallying a room of scientists Wednesday with his most heated rhetoric yet on the topic, suggested California would defy the federal government should President-elect Donald Trump impede the state’s efforts to thwart climate change.

“We’ve got the scientists, we’ve got the lawyers and we’re ready to fight. We’re ready to defend,” he said to boisterous applause at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco.

Brown struck a more forceful tone than he has since the election, suggesting the energy and enthusiasm in the room for him would be needed in the “battles ahead.”...
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Amy SF said:
I just saw a TV commercial for this group. What do you all think?

https://www.nolabels.org/
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Sort of hard to tell. Looks pretty cool, but they, as with any group like this, have total control on their website to present themselves as perfect freedom fighters.

That being said I do think bipartisan cooperation, between at the very least moderates from both sides, will be absolutely necessary to get anything done in this upcoming hell term.
 
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