Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

Thousands die each year because they are uninsured or under-insured.

If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government.

We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.