Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumI now have serious concerns about Sanders' intentions..
Up until today I disagreed with the mans methods but brushed them off. This latest existential threat crap has me seriously considering if this man has good intentions or if hes just an agent of chaos sent to divide the Democratic Party.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Mme. Defarge
(8,462 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Mr.Bill
(24,695 posts)Bernie is that guy who organized walkouts at your high school that only a few people responded to. He is the guy who stood in the quad with a bullhorn ranting about the "establishment" while you were trying to eat your lunch and talk to your girlfriend.
Then he stepped up the game in college.
Then he graduated and turned pro.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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ploppy
(2,175 posts)Mr. Bill.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
betsuni
(27,251 posts)as enormously important as that is. This campaign is about transforming America."
The original existential threat quote from last year about Bernie: "He has made it his mission to either get the nomination or to remake the party in his image as a democratic socialist. That is an existential threat to the future of the Democratic Party for the next generation." The Third Way Democrats think Bernie as the nominee would alienate crucial voting blocs, losing to Trump. If he isn't the nominee, he'll continue his movement against the party because as he said again today -- he thinks they're corrupt corporatists ignoring the working and middle class.
He really got mad at Third Way when they praised Elizabeth Warren and Politico did an article, "Centrists are coming around to Elizabeth Warren as an alternative to Bernie Sanders." Everybody knows Warren is progressive. Yet again he had to try to make it sound like he's the only true progressive and his positions are unique to him: "The cat is out of the bag. The corporate wing of the Democratic Party is publicly 'anybody but Bernie.' They know our progressive agenda of Medicare for All, breaking up the big banks, taking on drug companies and raising wages is the real threat to the billionaire class."
His opinions are based on incorrect information, he likes disruption and division and negativity. His intentions are bad.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Indykatie
(3,840 posts)similar to the way the far right took over the GOP. It must not happen.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
DanTex
(20,709 posts)his entire career. Its not complicated or mysterious. The simple fact is that we have given too much ground to the wealthy and to corporations and Bernie wants to take that ground back.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
sheshe2
(86,816 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)book sales at WalMart and on Amazon.
The simple fact is that Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton lapped him on consumer advocacy and free healthcare before they were even in elected office.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau:
What comparable achievements does Sanders have that compares to the CFPB or Dodd-Frank?
CHIP got free health care to 8 million uninsured low income children. What's the number of people that Bernie has gotten coverage for - other than his family, and the people he hires?
In 2007, Kennedy told the Associated Press that Hillary Clinton played a critical role in CHIP.
Nick Littlefield, a senior health adviser to Kennedy at the time, agreed.
"She wasn't a legislator, she didn't write the law, and she wasn't the president, so she didn't make the decisions," Littlefield told the Associated Press. "But we relied on her, worked with her and she was pivotal in encouraging the White House to do it."
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
showblue22
(1,026 posts)Quote: Americans across the spectrum were united in outrage and in seeking their safe return. Sanders, at the time, was a backer of an obscure Marxist-Leninist political party that pledged support for the Iranian theocracy and defended the hostage-taking"
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/02/10/bernie-sanders-radical-past-donald-trump-attack-fodder-column/4706779002/
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
comradebillyboy
(10,412 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden