Matthew Downhour

@MatthewDownhour

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Vrijeme pridruživanja: rujan 2012.

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    5. velj

    If you've enjoyed the work Liberal Currents has done lately and would like to see more of it, please support the cause! I've greatly enjoyed working publishing there and look forward to doing so in the future.

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  2. 6. velj

    I'm not like a caucus expert but it looks like everyon on the train is forgetting that the # delegates assigned is set in advance, so sometimes you have to 'round' up on a smaller decimal than .5, because the delegate # is not divisible by the # of candidates

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  3. 6. velj

    This is my favorite snippet of this piece I think, because dunking on Rothbard is a passion of mine.

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    Our resident Georgist, , is just an absolute beast at churning out high caliber, well researched pieces. I think his piece on the Homestead Act is possibly his very best

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  5. 5. velj

    Unions are certainly one, but even outside union structures I think a charismatic candidate could win over working class individuals who don't typically vote by making concrete commitments to improving their lives,

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    Most of middle class votes out of a sense of civic duty. I feel like that is less true of the working class, and so racial or religious motivations are often used to mobilize working class voters - Dems need to work on finding alternative mobilizing strategies.

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  7. 5. velj

    Regardless of the results, Sanders kept up with Buttigieg in an ideal environment for the latter. If Buttigieg wins one one of the next three I'll be convinced he's a contender; so far I'm not.

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  8. 5. velj

    (of course, IA, NH, NV, and SC together would have outsize influence, but that is at least a more representative 4)

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    This whole Iowa fiasco actually could be a hint at a good way to reform primaries - run them in the same stupid order, but don't release any of the results until after SC. Candidates can keep their focus on one state at at time, but IA & NH don't get outsize influence

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    I feel like the 'white working class' when analyzing elections should actually be called the 'white working, voting class'. The WWVC is only a portion of the WWC, and probably not a representative portion thereof. We need to ask why so many working class people aren't voters.

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    So as I understand it - everyone who caucused knows how their precinct turned out. And when all is said and done, all the precinct results will the announced. So there's no way to rig the result, because anyone can check their own precinct, and do their own addition. Right?

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  12. 4. velj

    The way I see it, if I confine my crotchety, generational myopia to sports and pop culture, I can hopefully keep my mind and opinions open on things that have more impact on other people.

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    The same way I'll never accept LeBron as being better than Michael Jordan, regardless of the evidence, Bad Bunny can perform at a dozen Super Bowls and still never match Daddy Yankee in my eyes. I'm at an age where nostalgia becomes impervious to changing facts.

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    The upshot of a caucus is that voters can realign to their second preference if their first choice isn't viable. That's really good, especially in a party primary! The downside is, uh, literally everything else. Just use ranked-choice voting, guys. This isn't hard.

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  15. 4. velj

    Okay I'm about to check caucus results but I'm just throwing this out here head of time: Caucuses are probably bad. Whatever good points they have, are offset by how non-representative they are, because of the time commitment involved.

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  16. 3. velj

    Why has South Korea seen such a precipitous drop in fertility rate since 1980? It's been even more dramatic than China. Did they have a forceful family planning program as well?

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    Old world land ownership was based on the spoils system like the rest of the world. Colonial governments simply imported the old European caste systems and recast them in racial terms.

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    This is important for anyone looking to understand US history, but especially and especially people living in Plains/Rockies. I happen to be both, which is what got me interested.

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    As we begin celebrating , let us never forget the brave Black Panthers that stood by their rights in the 60s - staunchly opposing oppressive police brutality and the Mulford Act, a gun control bill signed by Ronald Reagan and supported by the NRA to disarm them.

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