Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: The Liberal case against Bernie [View all]betsuni
(25,515 posts)Sigh.
From "What Happened":
"First, we need the biggest investment in good jobs since World War II. ... Second, to make the economy fairer, we need new rules and incentives to make it easier for companies to raise wages and share profits with employees and harder for them to ship jobs overseas and bust unions. We have to make sure Wall Street can't wreck Main Street again and get smarter and tougher on trade ... . Third, we have to modernize workforce protections with higher minimum wage, equal pay for women, paid family and medical leave, and affordable childcare. We should defend and improve the ACA to reduce prices and expand coverage, including with a public option. Fourth, we can pay for all of this with higher taxes on the top 1 percent ... .
"I could go on, but that gives you a flavor of some of the things I would have tried to get done as President. Unfortunately, despite the fact that I talked about these ideas endlessly, they never got much media attention, and most people never heard about any of them. I failed to convince the press that economics was more important than emails. ... Just as frustrating is the fact that I never managed to convince some skeptics that I really was in it to help working families. I thought that based on my years fighting for health care reform, my record in helping create jobs as a Senator, my efforts to raise the alarm before the financial crisis, and my early commitment to address the opioid epidemic, people would see me as a proven change maker and a fighter for children and families. Instead, I never quite shook the false perception that I was a defender of the status quo."
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden