Why Yang supporters back the Freedom Dividend

[redqueen]

Forcing Americans in need to do without while Congress tweaks around the edges to try to improve programs which have consistently left so many people out in the cold - and which fail to provide much support to those who do manage to get any help - is not acceptable.

Link to tweet

https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/chart-book-snap-helps-struggling-families-put-food-on-the-table

https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/medicaidchip-parent-participation-rates/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D

[brooklynite]

1. The problem being, there aren't a lot of Yang supporters.

[redqueen]

2. He has the same # of individual donors as Biden

[brooklynite]

3. ...and Sanders had more donors than Clinton in 2016.

[redqueen]

4. We'll see what happens when the voting starts

[brooklynite]

5. Indeed we will, BUT.....

...unless you're prepared to say that John Delaney is as likely to win as Joe Biden simply because nobody's voted yet, you have to accept at least the broad outline of what available data tells you. Yang's has shown only about 2% growth in national polling in the last six months, and his State-level support isn't any better (reminder: there's a 15% threshold in State voting to be eligible for Delegates). An abrupt change in trajectory in time for IA/NH/NV/SC/Super Tuesday is highly unlikely.

[redqueen]

6. That's a silly comparison. Delaney's campaign never got off the ground.

Despite the fact that he was a member of Congress.

Yang went from being a random guy to outlasting senators, governors, etc.

The only campaigns with more individual donors are Sanders, Warren, and Buttigieg. Also people who started the race with established careers in politics.

What Yang has already accomplished is nothing to be dismissed lightly. We'll see what happens from here.

[LanternWaste]

7. K&R, Yang's bringing up discussions not many else will touch.