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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A Sanders administration wouldn't be full of corporate cronies. He's a REAL progressive. [View all]procon
(15,805 posts)36. Neither Sanders or Clinton has a chance
of enacting sweeping legislative change in today's Congress. You know the game that Republicans have been playing fore the past 8 years. What are the odds that the GOP will change their stripes just because either one of those Democratic candidates replaces Obama?
You understand that they hate us, yeah? They loathe and despise all Democrats from the deepest, darkest depths of their withered souls. Republicans will gleefully see us all, every goddamn progressive, liberal, woman, and socialist, disappear, dead and buried, before they'd ever again vote for any bill that the Democrats wanted to enact.
I can applaud your magnificent dream, even knowing that reality makes it impossible.
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A Sanders administration wouldn't be full of corporate cronies. He's a REAL progressive. [View all]
think
Apr 2016
OP
Well at you least you are admitting Hillary isn't a true progressive. That's a big step....
think
Apr 2016
#2
What corporate types would establishment Democrats expect to see in a Sanders administration?
think
Apr 2016
#7
I believe Bernie would use the bully pulpit better than anyone we've seen in decades.
think
Apr 2016
#11
It would be very refreshing to have Bernie speaking about real change to a corrupt system
think
Apr 2016
#20
Hillary will get lots of Wall Street types appointed. She'll have no problem giving the GOP what
think
Apr 2016
#10
In case you don't read the news Wall Street banks have admitted to shit loads of crimes &
think
Apr 2016
#18
I'd like to see the GOP try and make a case for not having William K Black is AG. They'd be showing
think
Apr 2016
#8
This is false, a real progressive doesn't vote for corporate immunity and against the Brady Bill 5
uponit7771
Apr 2016
#14
Keep trying. Hillary already admitted she is open to Wall Street getting the Sec. Treasury position
think
Apr 2016
#25
Maybe you'd like to comment on who Hillary would appoint to her cabinet. Can you spare a thought on
think
Apr 2016
#28
+1, Sanders and Nader have soured my perspective of socialism and progressiveness
uponit7771
Apr 2016
#27
Single payer, breaking up Wall Street banks, ending the death penalty, ending the war on drugs
think
Apr 2016
#29
Funny you leave off gun views and the CFMA, what sours me is they're not the standard of progressive
uponit7771
Apr 2016
#40
The CFMA was written by Hillary's chief economic adviser and snuck into an omnibus spending bill
think
Apr 2016
#42
Excuses, Sanders gives no grace to Hillary he gets none either. The CFMA took the beat cops off
uponit7771
Apr 2016
#43
Bill Clinton and the Republicans snuck the CFMA in at the last minute. Only 4 people voted against
think
Apr 2016
#44
Again, he voted wrong... he gives no grace he gets none... no nuance for him and none for Clinton
uponit7771
Apr 2016
#56
You just posted another thread about the cost of shutting the government down. Bernie voted to
think
Apr 2016
#57
I'm promoting the idea Bernie will promote people that will do something. Screw the purity crap.
think
Apr 2016
#32
People who don't fight and explain what they are trying to do will never get anything accomplished.
think
Apr 2016
#37
Hillary uses the Victory Fund like it's her own personal campaign fund. Maybe some day those states
think
Apr 2016
#49
if Bernie was so "popular with the people" he'd be winning right now, but he's not.
procon
Apr 2016
#52
You're the one who made the claim that Hillary was supporting down ticket Dems and Bernie wasn't
think
Apr 2016
#53
Exactly. Bernie might not get every person he wanted appointed but he'd make the GOP look like dirt
think
Apr 2016
#34
William K Black, Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Reich & others of that caliber are who Sanders has
think
Apr 2016
#38
Well at least you named one of the most progressive Senators we have. But that's one and it's
think
Apr 2016
#41
Let's hope not. Corporate dominance of even the Democratic presidencies has been a a huge problem
think
Apr 2016
#47