If it is then about 90% of us are gonna be serial killers 😂

Michael Popok from Meidas Touch said it was 125% in NY. That's where I got that figure from. I find him to generally be pretty reliable.

That's what I meant by the "not officially" and "the system works around that" parts 🙃

^ Florida Be Like

No, as we do not have "debtor's prison" in the United States....at least not officially. There are certainly ways the system works around that.

However, in this case the state will file a lien against all of his properties, and then begin the legal process of recouping the funds from the judgement if he defaults.

It is 125% of the total judgement.

I guess you could potentially read that interpretation into what they said, but that is not how I personally took it. To me it seemed like they were arguing that if there was any real appetite for a progressive populist candidate that it would be possible to get them elected through grassroots support alone, and I just don't agree with that at all for the reasons that I already stated. The nature of the two party system is that it necessarily creates the artificial appearance of majority support for candidates that would otherwise not even represent a plurality within their own party a lot of the time.

No, no they do not.

If America was truly as progressive as some people thought, a third party could sweep the Democrats with a popular progressive candidate.

Yeah fucking right. Money is the number one determining factor in candidate success, and after that it is the organizational power of the DNC. How deluded do you have to be to think that ANY third party is going to be able to muster populist support given the current economic & political paradigm. I'm sorry, but that is just so fucking naive I can't believe you even tried to float that.

Yes, but he wouldn't have even been president in the first place if it wasn't for the Supreme Court, and specifically Clarence Thomas.

Couldn't have said it better myself 👏

This is easily one of the top 5 best comments I have ever read on any social media platform in my life. Absolutely fascinating, and completely fucking terrifying. Do you have any research/reading materials you can provide to go along with this?

It will take another 7 yrs after that to get back to where we are now

That seems overly optimistic. Obama couldn't undo most of the damage caused by Bush/Cheney in 8 years.

if we're lucky

If Trump wins, we are going to need a lot more than just luck on our side.

^ That too

Fish

They are, just not in this case.

Absolute unit.

Oh no, I understand just fine. They are rigging the system to create an entire generation if ignorant wage slave voters regardless of whether they have the means to attain higher education or not. This in turn creates a cycle that is incredibly hard to break, and that has far reaching repercussions on the electorate for years to come.