I think healthcare is a right and for profit healthcare is immoral and want our system to emulate better ones in other countries. But it’s naive to think that it will magically fix everything. It could very well cost more - and be worth every penny. Or it could cost less. Those big numbers are scary but that doesn’t mean we should be scared - or that they are inaccurate.
I’ve got better things to do than explain the most basic elements of human interaction, tact, and common decency to someone who is determined not to listen. And, again, you don’t have to understand why what you said was obnoxious, because nobody cares whether you understand anything or not. All you have to do is accept that people who know better than you agree that it was. You can then choose to either keep being obnoxious, or to refrain from being obnoxious. And if you can’t tell the difference then perhaps it’d behoove you to stop speaking altogether.
Unfortunately at this point we don’t know how much of a trail there will be.
Voting? Yeah that’s something other people get to do. My primary was going to be in June and now probably July. I never get a say in who is running for president. I have to live with whoever gets picked by other parts of the country.
Oh god no not VP. Can we please have someone under 80? It’s moot anyway since Biden will pick a woman.
Bernie is an ideologue. No way he will take a cabinet post and work for Biden pushing his agenda. He would much rather be independent on the floor of the senate spouting off in front of a camera in an empty chamber. I have no doubt he will be behind Biden against Trump but he will never work for him.
Sanders supporters in general: Why not vote for the candidate from the party upon whose coattails Bernie was riding? I mean, if pretending to be a Democrat was good enough for Bernie…
It’s this kind of attitude which I’m sure is going to endear lots of Bernie voters to vote for essentially a status quo candidate who looks like he has early onset dementia.
You’re the United States, and you’re electing the equivalent of Constantin Chernenko to the position of President. You’re terrified of structural change without realising that by putting it off you’re just slowly running the US into the ground. Thanks boomers.
Yeah easy, easy voting for someone who’s basically a veneer for vested interests, voting for someone who stripped bankruptcy protections for students and families, it’s almost as if you’re more afraid of Bernie than you are of Trump.
The “I’m all right Jack” Boomer mentality is alive and well in the democratic party, don’t be surprised if you lose again to Trump in November.
One of Heinlein’s avatars (I think it was in Stranger in a Strange Land, which would make it Jubal Harshaw) said something to the effect that the difference between “bad” and “worse” is more significant than the difference between “good” and “better.” True in this case, except that, as I texted to my daughter, in this case it’s a difference between “meh” and “pukingly horrible.”
Bernie’s not running anymore. Trump is. Easy.
This should be a landslide, but it may not be because people that yesterday supported a candidate on the Demcratic ticket, today won’t support the Democrat. So point fingers all you want about Trump winning again.
I met some former Bernie 2016 people on the Pete campaign. The questions we asked them were:
What worked?
What didn’t work?
What would you have improved on?
Trump won primarily as a protest against the Dems and the Reps establishments ignoring voters concerns for too long, and your idea of a remedy of this is Joe Biden, a guy who has early on set dementia and who has really no real or original ideas to fundamentally change the system which has let so many people down.
This is typical of the Boomer mentality, it’s all “Me me me me me” You expect people to just vote for Biden because Trumps bad, how about voting for Biden because he’s going to placate the left base in the Democratic party and adopt some of their policies?
I support this post. Warren was absolutely the best candidate in terms of how ably and competently she would have governed. She’s a terrier at good policy while still being able to both work within organizations as well create good organizations that will execute good policy. Was she good a candidate? Apparently not good enough, but that doesn’t speak to how well she would have governed which IMO is excellently.