2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I like Sanders, really I do......BUT... [View all]Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)I had heard. Those were the two ideas I remembered straight off. Going back yes he did indeed mention the transaction tax, closing loop wholes and getting rid of the cap on Social Security.
Now as for the question of Levi Sanders here is the what the triple dog dare is. If they want to make him an issue I would suggest to Bernie and Levi that they make him a prominent member of Bernie's campaign staff if Levi is cool with that. I would have him also do a social media photo bomb or whatever you call it when they dump a lot of pics on the social media with Bernie and Levi together. I am sure they were together for the Rolling Stone article. Bernie has never hidden Levi from the public, in fact Levi has been photographed with Obama, you can't really go more prominent than that in politics.
In a society where there is rampant divorce and the out of wedlock birth rate approaches 40% or more I don't think we are going to find to many people are going to be shocked or care. I strongly suspect there could be a horrible backlash on anyone who wants to push this issue especially from children who were born out of wedlock such as myself and my children. Heck I found out at a family reunion a great many of my family was born out of wedlock half my cousins. My own mother was conceived prior to my grandparents getting married. My father's oldest sister was conceived prior to his father marrying his mother, he was their third child so it he was born under the blessing of the state of Michigan.
If I had the social network I would create a fan group of such people something like #BastardsforBernie. All my cousins would at the very least love the name of the group.