(August 24, 2016 at 7:10 am)Rhythm Wrote:(August 23, 2016 at 8:32 pm)Minimalist Wrote: If its so fucking meaningless why were Bernie's fans losing their shit over the platform? Are you suggesting they are stupid?No more or less silly than the people who get hung up on it for having been stressed in Clinton's campaign as a way to bring them back into the fold. Perhaps they should have asked why Bernie voted -for- the very laws that formed the basis of the current for profit prison system......that made them a profitable opportunity in the first place...or why he voted -against- the demilitarization of police. We could have strangled all this shit in it;s crib, but he...like all the rest, were too busy nursing that baby when it counted. Now it's bigger than either party or any candidate, too big to fail, in all likelihood.
You know, people ARE allowed to change their minds after accumulating more facts. In some circles the ability to do that is considered a positive. I have no doubt that the lobbyists for the industry sold a vision of lower costs and better service because 'murrica has this asinine idea that the private sector can always do things better and cheaper than government. In many cases they cannot.
We now have a solid record of futility with the private prison system to make determinations on.
If you bought a car that turned out to be a piece of shit would you keep it because the original advertisement you saw had a hot blonde in it?
