Hot, Bad & Unpopular Takes

[Lechasseur]

People that oppose healthcare and welfare as a right are disgusting people and are equivalent to racists in their moral depravity.

I’m proud to be a disgusting guy in this case, even if you will probably disagree, it’s not the job of the government to offer health care, it’s a service which can be provided by the market exactly like car’s insurance services

Haha we can see why you like US Politics so much. You're the first European I've ever heard say that lol

[Bidenworth2020]

I like DeSantis as far as Republicans go and think his tenure as governor will be successful.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

I like DeSantis as far as Republicans go and think his tenure as governor will be successful.

Thus far, the few moves he's made have been overall impressive. I'm hopeful he'll evolve into a Haslam-like Workman Governor.

[Deblano]

If Bernie Sanders runs for President in 2020, there will be a noticeable "Never Bernie" movement in the Democratic primaries.

[Badger]

If Bernie Sanders runs for President in 2020, there will be a noticeable "Never Bernie" movement in the Democratic primaries.

You're probably right.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

What the TX GOP has done with Austin’s congressional lines and what MD dems have done with Western MD and Baltimore exurbs ought to be criminal, and anybody who unironically supports gerrymandering on either side of the aisle is a piece of crap.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

What the TX GOP has done with Austin’s congressional lines and what MD dems have done with Western MD and Baltimore exurbs ought to be criminal, and anybody who unironically supports gerrymandering on either side of the aisle is a piece of crap.

Says someone who has a John Delaney thing in their sig.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

What the TX GOP has done with Austin’s congressional lines and what MD dems have done with Western MD and Baltimore exurbs ought to be criminal, and anybody who unironically supports gerrymandering on either side of the aisle is a piece of crap.

Says someone who has a John Delaney thing in their sig.

It’s not his fault that the map is that way, he’s just a great product from a horrible design.

[Grassroots]

The libertarian party is severely underrated.

[Deblano]

I like DeSantis as far as Republicans go and think his tenure as governor will be successful.

Thus far, the few moves he's made have been overall impressive. I'm hopeful he'll evolve into a Haslam-like Workman Governor.

[DC Al Fine]

"Asians vote Democrat because the GOP is anti-science" is pretty racist when you think about it.

[morgankingsley]

What the TX GOP has done with Austin’s congressional lines and what MD dems have done with Western MD and Baltimore exurbs ought to be criminal, and anybody who unironically supports gerrymandering on either side of the aisle is a piece of crap.

I honestly don't give a damn either way about it. I don't support or oppose it at all.

[Bidenworth2020]

"Asians vote Democrat because the GOP is anti-science" is pretty racist when you think about it.

Where do you hear this being said?

[Sirius_]

There will not be a Beto 2020 campaign.

[DC Al Fine]

"Asians vote Democrat because the GOP is anti-science" is pretty racist when you think about it.

Where do you hear this being said?

There were a couple of threads on the Presidential Election Trends board a while back about the Asian vote with answers like that.

[Xing]

Democrats don't need a perfect candidate (which doesn't exist) to beat Trump in 2020.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

The libertarian party is severely underrated.

I agreed until 2016, when they nominated the sad Johnson/Weld ticket over the even douchier "truh libertarian" candidate Austin Peterson. The 2016 Libertarian field was just plain sad, and 2020 looks no better.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

The libertarian party is severely underrated.

I agreed until 2016, when they nominated the sad Johnson/Weld ticket over the even douchier "truh libertarian" candidate Austin Peterson. The 2016 Libertarian field was just plain sad, and 2020 looks no better.

They would have won with Weld at the top of the ticket.

[Deleted User #4049]

The libertarian party is severely underrated.

I agreed until 2016, when they nominated the sad Johnson/Weld ticket over the even douchier "truh libertarian" candidate Austin Peterson. The 2016 Libertarian field was just plain sad, and 2020 looks no better.

They would have won with Weld at the top of the ticket.

I doubt it, there's not a lot of appetite among the electorate for moderate heroes. Maybe they would have gotten 5-6% of the vote instead of 3%.

[Deleted User #4049]

Space exploration and colonization is wasteful, arrogant, and egocentric, and all areas of NASA that deal with anything other than climate change should be shut down immediately.

[Riegel2222]

American mass incarceration policies and culture really harm their social climate and it shows.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

The libertarian party is severely underrated.

I agreed until 2016, when they nominated the sad Johnson/Weld ticket over the even douchier "truh libertarian" candidate Austin Peterson. The 2016 Libertarian field was just plain sad, and 2020 looks no better.

They would have won with Weld at the top of the ticket.

The problem with Weld is that he seem to me, at least on the surface, more like a Progressive Conservative from Canada than anything rather close to American libertarianism.

[Deleted User #4049]

The libertarian party is severely underrated.

I agreed until 2016, when they nominated the sad Johnson/Weld ticket over the even douchier "truh libertarian" candidate Austin Peterson. The 2016 Libertarian field was just plain sad, and 2020 looks no better.

They would have won with Weld at the top of the ticket.

The problem with Weld is that he seem to me, at least on the surface, more like a Progressive Conservative from Canada than anything rather close to American libertarianism.

Yeah, Weld always struck be as Bloomberg-lite, which despite being in the same political compass quadrant as libertarianism, is basically the opposite in most ways.

(I don't really consider Gary Johnson-ism to be libertarianism, it's more just liberals who don't like economic regulation. Libertarianism to me is along the lines of Ron Paul)

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

The libertarian party is severely underrated.

I agreed until 2016, when they nominated the sad Johnson/Weld ticket over the even douchier "truh libertarian" candidate Austin Peterson. The 2016 Libertarian field was just plain sad, and 2020 looks no better.

They would have won with Weld at the top of the ticket.

The problem with Weld is that he seem to me, at least on the surface, more like a Progressive Conservative from Canada than anything rather close to American libertarianism.

Libertarianism to me is along the lines of Ron Paul)

I agree, but it's worth noting that Johnson ran as a Ron Paul style Libertarian in 2012. If he had run on the same platform in 2016, he'd have done considerably better. Gary Johnson 2016 was markedly different than Gary Johnson in 2012.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

The libertarian party is severely underrated.

I agreed until 2016, when they nominated the sad Johnson/Weld ticket over the even douchier "truh libertarian" candidate Austin Peterson. The 2016 Libertarian field was just plain sad, and 2020 looks no better.

They would have won with Weld at the top of the ticket.

The problem with Weld is that he seem to me, at least on the surface, more like a Progressive Conservative from Canada than anything rather close to American libertarianism.

I’ve got no idea what Progressive Conservatism actually means in practice, though sounds interesting. I was being hyperbolic about Weld’s chances; or perhaps lying through omission—he would have won my vote. I didn’t hear Weld speak, but I liked how he dressed and he seemed like substantially less of a national security risk than many of the candidates topping the tickets (including Johnson).