Words matter. These are the best Krystal Ball Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If there is any state that typifies prototypical ‘Murica’ where the trucks and the guns are big and the social safety net is oh so small, it’s Texas.
Especially in a rich nation, there is absolutely no reason why everyone couldn’t and shouldn’t have a life of dignity.
If you hang around political talkers or strategists much, you’re likely to hear a lot about authenticity. This is supposed to be the golden currency which we all look for in our leaders.
Conversely, conservatives assume that humans are fundamentally lazy and prone to immorality. In this view, the entitlement system coddles and rewards laziness. This cynicism spills over into their view of government and government ‘bureaucrats.’ It also spills over into their political tactics.
In politics, you’re safest when you’re saying as little as possible. You’re safest when you’ve got your talking points and you stick to them like glue, even if it means repeating yourself over and over.
Yes, health care is an election issue. It’s also a moral imperative especially in a wealthy nation.
I find it so astonishing how poorly a lot of politicians handle negative whatever in the press. You have to just get it all out there. You have to be totally, uncomfortably honest.
Maintaining an employer model of healthcare means handing bosses another weapon they can use against their workers. One more way they can drain union strike funds. One more way that the power dynamic is asymmetric.
When you’ve been told in ways large and small your whole life that your voice doesn’t matter and that you don’t count, it’s not an easy thing to get over.
It can be really lonely running for office, especially if you’ve never done it before and especially when all the normal channels of power are basically closed to you.
If you want to understand why something is happening in America just follow the money.
I’ve lived in the state almost my entire life, so I think if I ever wanted to come back and serve in Virginia, it would be pretty hard to paint me as a carpetbagger.
Usually, I chalk Democratic dreams of a blue Texas to the same sort of thinking that brought us the inevitability of the coalition of the ascendant and 100% certainty that Donald Trump was going to lose.
When I was 27, having never run for office before, I decided to run for Congress.
Charlotte Goddard is the story of 2018. There are a whole lot of Charlotte’s out there this year. You do belong. You are worthy. And you sisters? We’ve got your back. Go get em.
At their core, liberals assume that humans are fundamentally good and decent. This means that we believe that people are trying the best they can to make it and only ask for help when they really need it.
Once we accept our own basic worthiness we cannot help but see the basic worthiness of every other human.
Being a host or a guest or a pundit, you really want to say something that’s interesting and potentially provocative, that’s going to stick with people. The last thing you want to say when you’re a politician is something provocative.
To my friends on the right, Katie Hill’s national shaming is as much an example of an out of control cancel culture as anything that we’ve seen.
While President Obama assumes that at their core the Republican leadership team is just trying to do what’s best for America, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner assume that the president is cynically trying to secure his own reelection, power, and legacy.
Voters do not choose candidates because of their ideological fit. They choose them because of their cultural fit.
In the age of Trump, we have witnessed an unprecedented attack on the judiciary across the country.
It will already be unbelievably hard to pass Medicare for All once with a massive outside pressure campaign by an organized grassroots movement and a presidential mandate in the first 100 days of an administration.
As soon as you know that someone is running for office, it puts a distance between you and that person.
So when you hear these lies about how we can’t possibly change our health care system because it would be electoral disaster, kindly remind people that we already have a moral and ethical disaster on our hands.
