On healthcare: Government's proper job includes protecting the citizenry from cartels & monopolies, per the General Welfare clause of the Constitutional Preamble. In the U.S. we pay twice as much per capita on healthcare as they do in France -- and have both lower life expectancy and double the infant mortality rate. Somebody's scamming us, the richest country in the universe, and conservatives are just as happy as liberals to keep us hobbled as long as their bribes keep flowing.

On minimum wage: Raising it is a terrible idea but conservatives are hypocrites as long as they profit from inflated asset prices due to perpetually low interest rates, which are incidentally also reaming commoners. Where are all the sensible, persuasive arguments? Instead they are heartless weasels.

Solutions to both issues, understandable by regular folks, are not that hard to devise or articulate. But solutions are clearly not the goal of conservatives -- and where's the morality of that?