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Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
1. Why do you keep acting like poor people don't matter?
Mon Mar 7, 2016, 09:32 PM
Mar 2016

Do middle class and rich people need as much defending? I am probably clueless because I have never been rich so maybe they do need a champion. Middle class people sure do or they will disappear altogether and guess which groups of people will be hurt the quickest by middle class shrinkage.

Why do you keep acting like poor people don't matter? Kalidurga Mar 2016 #1
Who said that "poor people don't mater?" I certainly didn't EffieBlack Mar 2016 #6
yeah, you are saying poor people don't matter -- it's identity vs economics nashville_brook Mar 2016 #23
And Hillary said she is opposed to institutional racism yet supports the drug war and dogman Mar 2016 #2
Bulllshit! TM99 Mar 2016 #3
Cool...what specific actionable issues would you add? Emphasis on specific and actionable. Bread and Circus Mar 2016 #4
There are many: For example, affirmative action, the wealth gap between blacks and whites EffieBlack Mar 2016 #11
So instead of economics, he needs to talk about economics Scootaloo Mar 2016 #18
Not sure you got that from my post, but . . . EffieBlack Mar 2016 #22
I did, in fact Scootaloo Mar 2016 #36
There is strange tendency among Sanders supporters to completely misread/distort EffieBlack Mar 2016 #44
"just like he does when talking about white people" Wilms Mar 2016 #47
I'm just trying to fix up all those split hairs you've got going. Scootaloo Mar 2016 #48
Well they aren't saying that Bernie needs to talk about the specific issues of urban areas.... Kalidurga Mar 2016 #52
Thank you, so here are my response and further questions to you point Bread and Circus Mar 2016 #19
Thanks for the questions. I will think them through and write a thoughtful response. EffieBlack Mar 2016 #45
I would have thought those were good answers. Wilms Mar 2016 #5
Alright, so question Scootaloo Mar 2016 #7
Bernie is just answering the questions with phrases from his stump speeches itsrobert Mar 2016 #8
It beats a weathervaner though. Wilms Mar 2016 #10
You're right he is no Hillary whatchamacallit Mar 2016 #9
Great picture and great for Bernie that he was arrested 50 years ago EffieBlack Mar 2016 #13
Obviously Hillary's frame (whatever the fuck it is) is vastly superior to that of whatchamacallit Mar 2016 #16
Nice attempt at deflection, but this has nothing to do with my post or my point EffieBlack Mar 2016 #25
I knew you'd skate away from my question whatchamacallit Mar 2016 #34
First he was quoting a member of Black Lives Matter nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #12
I don't care who he was quoting - my OP stands EffieBlack Mar 2016 #14
BLM under the buss nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #15
For fuck' sake, get a grip. This isn't about the Holocaust and NOBODY here denies it. PeaceNikki Mar 2016 #24
you also throwing BLM under the bus? COOL nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #27
Nope. And if that's what you got out of my reply, go buy a clue. PeaceNikki Mar 2016 #29
I don't have to nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #30
No, I have not thrown BLM under the bus - but nice try. EffieBlack Mar 2016 #28
Sorry you did, after all I did post the transcript nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #56
Who from BLM was he quoting? tammywammy Mar 2016 #21
BUT HE DID DO This!!!!!!!!!! he introduced just such a bill: amborin Mar 2016 #17
Is introducing a bill an "accomplishment"? Recursion Mar 2016 #20
what would make you happy? Clinton championed Bill's draconian drug laws that led to massive incarce amborin Mar 2016 #26
And your answer helps to prove my very point EffieBlack Mar 2016 #35
I "No we can't" a winning slogan? dogman Mar 2016 #31
Why? Recursion Mar 2016 #40
What does this bill have to do with "race relations?" EffieBlack Mar 2016 #32
You heard "poverty, criminal justice and welfare" -- I heard 'discrimination in employment, GreatGazoo Mar 2016 #33
I heard what he actually said. You seem to have heard what you wanted to hear, not what he said EffieBlack Mar 2016 #38
What are HRC's positions in these regards? n/t Wilms Mar 2016 #41
he pissed off all kinds of folks with that nonsense about ghettos bigtree Mar 2016 #37
And his supporters' insistence on telling everyone that he didn't really say what he said EffieBlack Mar 2016 #39
Don't vote for him. whatchamacallit Mar 2016 #42
The cult thing... TTUBatfan2008 Mar 2016 #55
I am glad he focuses on the most important issues in the few seconds he has to answer a question. Vattel Mar 2016 #43
Let me get this straight EffieBlack Mar 2016 #46
A smart consumer evaluates the meritS of the product or service. ZX86 Mar 2016 #49
Who knows what would "work"? I think he should say what he thinks, Vattel Mar 2016 #50
I think his answers effectively addresses issues that affect the African American community AgadorSparticus Mar 2016 #51
I am more concerned with the fact that his heart is in the right place than, the fact Hiraeth Mar 2016 #53
Nonsense AgingAmerican Mar 2016 #54
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