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Don't attribute to anger that which can be attributed to your comment being forced and unfunny

So you can't point to where anyone said we should "abolish term limits to make a forever leader whose opposition is disappeared." This is what's called a straw man argument. You're arguing against a straw man.

It sounds like you won't have any trouble copying and pasting the part you're talking about right here, unless it doesn't exist.

Can you point to where anyone said we should "abolish term limits to make a forever leader whose opposition is disappeared?" If you can't, this is what's called a straw man argument.

We can absolutely aspire to be better than we were in the past

I appreciate the info. You're totally right, and this further proves my point. People deride "the founding fathers" for the racist, capitalist state they created, but the reality is that what they created was absolutely radical for their time. The idea that white people of common birth could have power was incredibly radical in the late 18th century.

Since the US was founded, it's been a steady march to increase rights, first to white landowning men, then to poor white mean, then to white women, and then to black, brown, and indigenous people. Many will say "well we haven't gone far enough," and that's true, but that doesn't discount the progress that's been made since we were literally beholden to the whims of a king

He is a symbol of social Democrats, though, but he's also a realistic product of his time. I heard an interview with a historian awhile back I wish I could find again. They basically described how if you try to judge a historical figure through today's moral lens, you'll always be disappointed, because history is rife with racism, dehumanization, slavery, and genocide. The most ardent leftists will point to the handful of white people who were actively fighting racism in the 1930s and say "See? Roosevelt didn't have to implement racist policies!!" But the reality is that the majority culture was racist. The concept of not being racist just didn't exist to 95%+ of white people at the time. Abraham Lincoln didn't believe in racial equality, but I don't use that to discount his positive contributions

So guess what Obama learned? Don't stick your head out. He ran on broad "hope", hoping the ambiguity would be enough considering Bush's disastrous wars.

The "Hope" slogan was coined by Shepard Fairey on the poster of Obama he created and distributed independently of the Obama campaign, albeit with tacit approval. The campaign's actual slogans were "Change you can believe in" and "Yes we can."

Did somebody say George Wallace?

There isn't a single leader in history who would pass your smell test. The reality is every human is complex and no one is all good or all bad. Except Andrew Jackson. Fuck that guy

But really, take a look, for example, at Lyndon Johnson. He was a renowned racist who ushered through the Civil Rights Act among many other progressive policies. He also escalated the Vietnam War. Dude did a lot of great things and a lot of bad things, and there's no single policy or act in his life that defines the entirety of his administration.

Red Lining itself was definitely established well before the New Deal, and the practice had spread across the US by the end of the 1920s

The Texas House has been incredibly resistant to this due to a coalition of Democrats and Republicans from more remote areas where whole towns still show up for high school football games. Quite a few of the primaries out there were won by even more right-wing candidates this year, so the margin may be tighter this next legislative session.

They tried and failed to primary Dade Phelan. It'll be interesting to see whether he maintains the speakership. I think he will. I respect the man as far as he's been willing to publicly fight against some of the worst ideas coming from Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick. Without Dade Phelan, Texas might be as bad off as Florida right now. I know this may be hard to understand to some people outside Texas who perceive a Republican free-for-all happening here, but a ton of the worst Republican legislation has died in the Texas House the past several sessions, and it's really pissed off Abbott and Patrick.