American Politics the 2016 edition

I am aware of that theoretical distinction but I am not sympathetic to theory because paper ideology, sorry to be blunt, is only cheap talk.  In practice, even countries which were governed by parties that identified themselves as communist, like Russia and China, did not go the whole hog to fulfill the strict definition of communism and instead stopped with nationalised control of means of production.  Good thing, because workers didn't have to directly bear the losses from the inefficient Russian state.  That aside, even countries with stronger govt intervention (vis a vis USA or UK) like France haven't gone the whole hog with completely abolishing private ownership of means of ownership.  And you absolutely can have both private and public ownership if you are not beholden to ideological dogma.  To say social democracy is a right wing ideology is as far fetched as the view held by libertarians that America has not been a capitalist nation for a long time (long time meaning not since the advent of Progressivism in the early twentieth century).  When you start redistributing income in some form or the other, you are already leaning left.  The question is only of how leftist.   The mixed economy/welfare state compromise of the post WWII years was an excellent one. Too bad the OPEC spike gave an opportunity for Friedman & Co to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

The same hate that the Republicans and Trumpists and Fox News encourage. 

Well anyone who thinks Clinton isn't smart is truly a damned fool themselves. 

I never had any doubt about that. Her....I'll say: divisive... campaign, the comments of surrogates, really every step she takes, comment made, action taken is planned and calculated and is very aware of everything she does. 

God I hope. I hope it doesn't even require 20-30 years. The Ron Paul revolution has made monumental progress (fringe, most people never even heard of him, limited gov was mocked even in the GOP, to now his creation has taken total control of the party) in under 8 years. 

It's not like Bernie and Warren are solo loons either. The CPC has existed for ages and have always had like 40-50ish members, so the seeds have been there. And many people are very ready for sincere change. 

BTW this hasn't made any major but a huge amount of ballots in California have not actually been counted yet. There are boxes upon boxes sitting around and this isn't conspiracy...the CA Sect of State noted 3 counties have since flipped to Sanders. 

Not that he'll win the state, or even if he did somehow it would've made no difference but yeah...yet again there are tons (2.5 million I read) of votes not counted and most have no idea, the few who do brush it aside because lol who cares about the right to vote?