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No lie, I would give a full half of my material wealth to see an openly polyamorous president, all other things being equal. I would campaign for clinton if she stood up and claimed bernie and bill on stage.

... LW, you do realize that germany is still doing foreign aid spending, despite all the stuff that's going on in their own turf, right? Easiest numbers to compare seem to be from '13, where they were spending about a third the US was in raw dollars (and that's with less than a third the population and a lower per capita gdp to boot), and so far as I'm aware neither country has shifted output too much in the couple years since. Merkel's doing just fine on the helping hundreds of millions front, apparently, in addition to getting her country to actually take in refugees.

It's mostly because they still end up accruing medical costs, to expand a bit on the point three maniac just ninja'd me on, which often ends up on the taxpayer's shoulders one way or another. It's also worth noting most people that didn't want it can still go without and be paying less than the insurance would cost them, they'll just be putting a bit into the system to offset their portion of their demographic's inevitable societal medical burden (assuming they have much income, anyway -- folks below the tax threshold aren't hit with the penalty). It's that whole internalizing externalities thing that is one of the primary functions of a working government, heh.

Yeeeaaaah, no. There hasn't been a "way left" of note in the US since... what, around the start of the cold war? It's been longer than my lifetime. We used to have communist/socialist parties that people actually talked about, and the first socialist we've had of note in the last few decades has been bernie (and in most areas, far left he is not), so far as I'm aware of. The dems are notably centrist compared to, y'know, actual leftwing parties in other countries. There's been polarization, but in terms of policy the left in the US has not changed much in, well. Like I said, longer than my lifetime. Better than 20, 30 years. Sanders is the closest to a shift of any meaningful visibility I've seen in my personal ever, and he's still mostly just saying, "Hey, maybe we catch up with the moderate left in other social democracies?" The healthcare attempt (while much better than before) was still a conservative riddled mess in a lot of areas, the gains on social issues have been stuff that's been fought for for longer than I've been alive (and a hell of a lot further back than '94), militarily we've only barely started maybe drawing down on adventurism (much of which significant chunks of the democratic party cheerfully supported/supports)... there's just kind of a list. Outside of homosexual marriage and maybe some environmental/regulatory issues there hasn't really been meaningful leftwards successes that I can recall until the last few years, and a lot of areas the dems have, to all appearances, moved at least as in lockstep with the american right as before. They haven't been moving left so much as standing still as parts of the republican party goes insane.

Honestly, a lot of the support that sanders is getting is just from people that've gotten fed up with the lack of a notably left option over the last few decades -- there's been plenty of democrats, but most of the ones nominated and elected to president et al have been largely centrist, not really trying to rock the boat to any large degree. Somewhat understandable considering the realities of compromise they were trying to play with for a while as the conservative coalition started going utter bugnuts, but still. Some folks have been getting tired of the incremental and often eroded gains in the realm of welfare, education, etc., which is where a fair chunk of sanders' base is coming from.

... generally no? Drums are pretty fun in general, whether you're playing with sticks or just by hand.

Perhaps mock them relentlessly support them in their endeavors? Send a cheerful message of scorn encouragement or somethin'.

I'm wondering what Jeb's legacy will be now. My money is on "Please Clap". Kinda sad to see an entire political career reduced to one blooper moment, like Howard Dean.

Not when it's jeb's. Serendipitous or cheering, perhaps. Though I guess it's also diminishing of his cavalcade of screwups, too, which is something of a downside. Still not sad.

The big problem is, every time I search for scholarly articles, either:

If you're doing economic history, can't you just use raw data and build from there? Why bother with scholarly articles to begin with, other than ease of plagiarism reference?

Other options, though... consider seeking tutors, asking other students how they're handling it, asking other professors in the program for aid. Also, if you can't manage to do a full 15 pages... don't. Do less, do them (as) well (as possible), and take a reduced grade rather than a flat zero. Or just screw the paper in question and eke out a pass with other course material, if it's possible. Unless you can withdraw and get some degree of refund, anyway. If you're paying for that shit, y'gotta' try to keep from losing the investment, y'know?

Really, though, one the biggest things is to just keep a positive outlook on it -- there's no faster way to fail a course or struggle with a paper than convincing yourself you're going to.