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Well, yeah. He doesn't believe in rights based philosophy. He believes in empowering government to run roughshod over people he disagrees with.

He was being promoted in New England as a successor to Barack Obama for the first six years of the Obama Presidency. It was regional, but major as far asDemocratic strongholds go.

Which is, again, exactly why Christians voted for President Trump.

Remember back a few posts ago when you said this: "Cool story bro. It would matter more if whatever you pray to existed, but I appreciate the thought. I'm a little surprised. I thought you'd think I was hip for speaking your lingo." The rest of your post, like this first part, is a string of lies; and further, you know it.

No, you absolutely do want them to surrender their rights. It's not other people living their lives, it's the demand that Christians actively participate in lifestyles and choices they feel are immoral and unChristian. Christianity is a spectacularly classically liberal religion, which makes individual freedoms paramount. (I apologize, my quote tags broke off your link) No, the system produces mealy mouthed politicians who pay lip service to Christians and their values, but have done little to protect their religious freedoms or values. These are charlatans who lie to Christians, telling them they believe what Christians believe, but whom have no such allegiances. Most politicians who do actually embody the beliefs of Christians, being Christians themselves, are not generally electable. Mike Pence, for example, was not a viable Presidential candidate. Because you are not yourself a Christian, and don't care to understand Christians and their beliefs and values, you have confused Christians with charlatans. This is a strawman. It is perfectly reasonable to differentiate between imperfect people who actively seek to tear down Christian structures, violate and legislate away religious freedoms, and impose a religion of secular statism on Christians; and imperfect people who seek to protect their freedoms and values.

And this, right here, is exactly why Christians voted for President Trump. You have mocked my faith, seek to tear down traditional family and value structures, and legislate away the ability for me to practice my religious rights and conversely impose anti-Judeo-Christian legislation on me; all in body of five brief sentences. The President promised to fight you on my behalf. I didn't vote for him, but individuals like you have convinced me that I absolutely should and will in the next Presidential election.

Because the system doesn't regularly provide candidates which outwardly embody Christian values, and Christians got tired of being mocked and having their values discarded, and in many cases trampled on by the excesses of government. They recognized that men are not perfect creatures, and know each one themselves to be sinners; so they voted for a candidate who, while he may not have exhibited those values in his own life, made a promise to him to fight for them. And it's a promise he has honored. And you mock them for it because you can't be bothered to actually understand them, or their values, which you casually dismiss out of hand; and I know you don't understand their values because you quote scripture without context or meaning, because you haven't studied it because you don't value it. You now chastise them because you lack any respect for the way they choose to live, going so far as to say you hope Christians "die off" so they will "stop ruining the world". You go on say that you wouldn't have a problem with their existence "if they'd only shut up and surrender their rights, both political and natural," as if that's a reasonable accommodation. Christians voted for Trump because they voted in the best interests of themselves and their faith, and it should be a lesson to you about your own myopic views of who they are, and what you are.

Lot's of ugly projection here, with little attempt to understand either the motives or values of others. Your moral compass is so far skewed that it's actually depressing, and has actually lead me to pray for you.

The only "crop circles" shaped like ***** in the US.

It's also not impossible to do away with modern medicine, or enact totalitarian theocracy, or any other trait of third world countries. It doesn't make them good ideas.

Have you stopped to consider that it may not be desirable to return to an agrarian economy in which everyone is required to be a subsistence farmer? If it's all the same to you, I think I'd like to continue to drive my SUV to work and have a life expectancy of more than 40.

"Nate Peterman fanboys"

I'll admit, it's less torturous than "pettifog".

Junta? Really?

It makes me wonder if the whole hiring wasn't part of a larger counter-intel sting being overseen by DIA.

I'll summarize the entirety of how I feel about Benjamin's commitment to winning during his tenure in Buffalo in this 10 second video clip:

How I feel inside right now:

Eh, I don't generally read anything he writes beyond when I get notifications that he's tagged me in a post specifically and solely for the purpose of making baseless charges of racism or libelous character attacks.

Yes, yes, Gary. Your libel and rabid race baiting are giggle inducing hilarity, a real boost to the board, as well as being the pinnacle of maturity; and are certainly worth the time of engaging you on serious topics. And of course I'm "triggered", rather than discerning. You keep on doing you, Gary; and I'll continue to ask the reader to judge the worthiness of our respective content.

I'm sorry, you must have me confused with someone who has an ounce of respect for you or believes you to have a drop of intellectual honesty or personal integrity. In the future, please remember that I find you to be a cancerous tumor on honest and productive dialogue. If anyone else would like to opine about NC-09, I'd be happy to engage them, but I won't engage you, because you're a race baiting, libelous piece of *****.

He's wishcasting away reality by conflating "do no harm" with universality with a bit of handwavium; while willfully (or ignorantly) ignoring the fact that scarcity plays out in universal systems. For instance: in those nations the obese and smokers are denied access to surgeries, end of life treatment can be denied by law, wait times are absurdly long etc. And the systems are still collapsing under their own weight. Even their "outcome" metrics are apples to oranges comparisons because a by legislatively denying treatment to those more likely to have bad outcomes drastically impacts outcome statistics. Don't even get me started on denying the existence of secondary and black market costs when calculating expense.

No, it does not drive down costs. It shifts costs towards markets which aren't tracked. In nations which have single payer there are massive black markets for health care. The "three prongs" argument is in no way flawed because health care is a finite commodity, and you cannot simply wish away the laws of supply and demand. Universal care will either be low quality, because you'll have to lower standards to increase supply; or incredibly expensive because you'll have to provide financial incentives to drastically increase the supply. There is no other way to increase supply to meet demand. To the rest of your argument: Please explain the magical phenomenon in which monopoly and price fixing are a net consumer good. Please explain how increased government bureaucracy lowers costs, and how that would scale up in a takeover of 20% of the domestic economy. Please explain why it is desirable to place unaccountable government bureaucrats between patients and their care. Please explain how profit motivation does not lead to dynamic innovation in industry. Once you've sufficiently answered those query's I promise I'll have follow-ups. Edit: I'll also add that US healthcare is not a free market model. It's highly regulated, and has no consumer price transparency.

You know you're living in a land of true wealth and excess when even your homeless population hire luxury services to decorate their boxes and shopping carts for Christmas.

No, it does not drive down costs. It creates unaccounted costs in a thriving black market. It also exacerbates scarcity of resources. There are three prongs to health care: quality, affordability, and universality. You can have any two of the three, but not all three because you are dealing with finite commodities.

Think feeder pools. To make a football analogy: Why are we seeing a dearth of NFL ready quarterbacks coming out of the draft? Because colleges aren't producing as many strong armed pocket passers as they used to, because the college game has changed, and the NFL model QB feeder pools have gone dry. To wit: Democrats aren't fielding strong viable national candidates because they aren't winning local and state elections, so they have very few young stars on their bench gaining name recognition, and branding themselves as credentialed candidates for federal elections. In the places they do win state and locals, the liberal strongholds of the country; those elected officials tend to represent the extreme fringes of the bases who elect them, and aren't palatable to the national electorate.