Since the guy you're actually asking seems to be uninterested in answering, I'll answer for you.

The answers are "no", "no", and "no".

What happened was that the president of Chik-Fil-A, Dan Cathy, expressed an opinion on same-sex marriage that was exactly what Barack Obama had expressed just a couple of years earlier and that HIllary Clinton had also expressed. Oddly, only one of these three people were harassed for their opinion.

Oddly, it happens to be the one of the three with the least power to effect any change in regard to the subject matter at hand. But, he doesn't claim to be a "Democrat", which is an allegiance which absolves one from all responsibility and repercussions from their opinions.

Um, maybe to you. I saw Obama coming a mile away, he's admittedly even more of a let down than I or anyone else could imagine but I knew the vapid talk was just that. I'm glad you admit that he fooled you, most on your side keep claiming that he's actually not an embarrassing failure and that things are way better than when Bush was in office.

nut kick the guy who keeps asking "what if you could...." in the screencast? That got annoying real fast.

Keep preaching this. I have had to explain this over and over again, mainly to wingnuts of both persuasions who like to point out how the Constitution doesn't prohibit their pet laws so they must be okay.

Yeah, but taken by itself "the celtics" has no implications. The "fighting irish", on the other hand, manages to incorporate a negative stereotype in the name. This isn't like "redskins". It would be like the "drunken indians".

It doesn't bother me personally, I'm just pointing out the double standard.

Rich campaign donors who bought this. Is that even a serious question?

I mean, Lessig seems like a smart guy. But "May Day" and "May One"? Yeah, I get "may day" as a distress call, but that's way different than "May One". The "May One" links this to the communist holiday (don't bother telling me about the "socialists" - it's tainted by the USSR) and makes the whole thing bizarre.

Beyond that, the idea that "campaign finance reform" is some magic bullet that will solve the problems in our country is a little clueless, too.

Frankly, I don't know what he meant. My looney left friends on facebook really think that crony capitalism represents "free markets" and then blame free markets and capitalism for the problems caused by crony capitalism.

So forgive me if I have no idea if the parent poster of my original post meant that.

No it's not. It's terrifying to cronies who use crony capitalism to keep a grip on their markets through government "regulation".

How about "Fighting Irish"?

Are you as concerned about the fact that there are far more female than male nurses? Do you think men are less qualified?

Or maybe certain careers appeal more to one gender than the other.....

LOL. I got that. This is going to hurt:

https://www.opensecrets.org/or...

This is large corporations donating to political campaigns. You have to get to #17 before you get to the first one that leans Republican.

Mega-corps give to Democrats. In return, they get "regulation" that helps keep them in business. Money moving away from mega-corps will help Republicans, not Democrats.

He said "The Republican Party".

The bottom line is that "The Republican Party"'s main voting block is self-employed middle-aged men. More "self-employed middle-aged men" doesn't scare the Republicans at all - they stand to benefit the most.

I've also yet to find a single counter-example and I've actively looked. I notice this among my lefty friends on facebook, too. Point out something bad that Democrats do and "well, both parties do that". It's either "Republicans do bad things" or "both parties do bad things".

I'm non-parisan.

"I think Obamacare will do one really big thing that truly scares the Republican Party. It will free up millions of smart people to be self-employed, who formerly stayed in the corporate world."

I'm self-employed, 40-something, etc. I can tell you from hanging around with a lot of other folks like myself - they tend to vote Republican and give to the Republicans. Democrats get most of their funding from big business, big labor, and of course Hollywood. This data is openly accessible on the internet for those who care.

If you think self-employed people scare the Republicans you're living in an alternate reality.

It's great that you and your family picked up insurance. I know 3 families who lost their insurance - which was perfectly fine for them - and have to pay many times as much now for less coverage. Maybe, just maybe, that is what "scares the Republican Party". It scares the hell out of me and I'm not a Republican.