2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHad a brief conversation with a friendly, informed Republican today.
I was waiting for my car to finish getting smog checked when another customer (a middle-aged woman like me) approached me. She had spotted my Bernie sticker on my back bumper.
She likes Bernie a lot and is horrified at Trump. She wanted to know how Bernie planned to pay for all that free stuff he's proposing. I honestly didn't know, but I had some little cards with the high points of his campaign outlined.
I dug one out of my purse and gave it to her.
We agreed that Trump had to be stopped! Then our cars were ready and we parted ways.
One voter at a time, folks...
HumanityExperiment
(1,442 posts)Zira
(1,054 posts)Still, good job.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,516 posts)corkhead
(6,119 posts)"Skimming just a little from the Military Industrial Complex would pay for a lot of free stuff."
"Taxing Wall St., millionaires, and billionaires fairly would pay for a lot of free stuff."
"Fixing our roads and bridges would create a lot of jobs and new taxpayers to pay for that free stuff."
"Diverting the money we spend on health insurance, deductibles and co-pays would more than pay for that health related free stuff".
I like to hit them with simple bites like this because we don't always have time to go into nuanced detail and often times their brains have been softened by too much Rush or Fox.
Gwhittey
(1,377 posts)But if we do that then we are taxing the jobs makers and they will stop making jobs....
corkhead
(6,119 posts)amborin
(16,631 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,516 posts)amborin
(16,631 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)HughLefty1
(231 posts)Cruz even looks creepy and i hate that fake holy roller act.
The DNC has issues but those GOP elite types (Rove, etc) are the scum of the earth.
TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)Taxing trades on Wall Street (a fraction of a cent for each stock traded, was bandied about as I recall, though don't quote me) would be more than enough to pay for everything Sanders has promised.
http://www.zazzle.com/democratic_socialism_is_not_free_stuff_bumper_sticker-128864257289173321?rf=238589910366818801
shanti
(21,675 posts)a handman came to my house to install something. started yakking, and he hesitatingly brought up politics. "oh you're going to go there?", i said. then he said, you're not voting for trump are you?" i said BERNIE!! he gave me a double fist pump!
he also gave me a deal on the job, heh! i'm finding that this election is bringing a lot of people out of the woodwork, just to talk about the candidates, moreso than previous years. people are definitely stirred up!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,516 posts)What a great story!
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Very cool. +1
One voter at a time, indeed.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)"... only Bernie won't cut taxes for the rich, so they'll help pay for it this time, too."
VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)pinebox
(5,761 posts)but many on here who support Hillary and call themselves supposed "Democrats"?
Ron Green
(9,822 posts)"He's not really promising anything, he's describing things we ought to do." The obvious follow-up to that is a discussion of: Why aren't we doing what most people want, and how do we start?