I see this kind of talk about FDR frequently from the same people on my FB feed who love Bernie, ThinkProgress, etc. It strikes me as ahistorical, unless it is being graded on a curve, like “for the 1930s…”?
Because 1) they don’t produce something or provide a service thus making them a parasitical component of the economy, 2) they’ve ballooned to wield disproportionate power in the economy in the past generation or so, and 3) they have immense power to bring down the economy compared to any other sector.
How about insurance? In both cases, they provide important functions so are not actually parasitical (advertising is more so) but their functions could and should ideally be taken over by the government.
A lot of the time, the financial and insurance sectors along with real estate are lumped together in the FIRE sector of the economy.
Not when people chant “Wall Street, Wall Street”. How many major insurance companies are on Wall Street? (And maybe there are some; so before you list them, what I really mean is how many do people think of as being on Wall Street?
Joseph de Maistre wrote: “Every nation gets the government it deserves.” Have fun with Satan. I’m voting for Bernie as long as possible.
What a pathetically ignorant comment. What, precisely, makes him “sound too old,” and how is your brand of ‘youth’ worthy of anything other than contempt?
He cups his hand to his ear and asks people to speak up, fails to modulate his voice, and then there’s this (mainly #1).
Settle down, I don’t want you to have a stroke before Bernie, and that’s probably imminent at his age.
So what? It’s a shorthand simplifier.
Not a good move for Bernie to dismiss HRC (er, the gay rights group, that is) and Planned Parenthood as “the establishment”. Sounds churlish, and I think that will be a sour note for many of the young women he had been looking like he was doing well at seducing away from Hillary.
It’s ironic that the candidate that inspires the most fervent support within the Democratic Party today is not a young, or female, or racial-minority politician, but…an old white man.
It wold be a landslide Sanders victory.
Bad way of putting it, would have been better to say that those groups are one issue groups that tend to back the establishment candidates for political reasons.
Meanwhile, David Brock may have changed sides, but he sure hasn’t changed his stripes:
What’s funny is that “America” ad, while definitely portraying “overwhelmingly white” crowds, actually looks to me to have assembled every shot available of Bernie with a brownish person. Also every time Bernie has ever actually smiled.
A more informed take on why the extreme disparity in these poll results, at least looking at Iowa: polling technique. The difference is that polls that use “random digit dialing — a kind of poll that contacts all types of adults, including those who are unregistered” more often put Sanders ahead but those that use registered voters only (or those who have previously caucused, or those who are definitely going to), not. Yes it breaks down into age demographic, with Sanders’ popularity among younger Democrats giving him a lead in random dialing polls but losing among the registered, previous, and definitely planning to vote, voters.
Will he get them to vote on caucus day? Or not?
The gold standard in Iowa is Ann Selzer’s polling. All others can be safely ignored.
If one believes that then the last Iowa result is +2 Clinton … close. And Cruz by +3.
Personally I’ll guess the spreads will be bigger than that for each. But Ann Selzer I aint.
Here’s where the money is.
2016 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION - NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Odds as of January 25 at Bovada
Hillary Clinton EVEN
Donald Trump +200
Bernie Sanders +350
Marco Rubio +1000
Ted Cruz +1400
Jeb Bush +3300
Chris Christie +5000
John Kasich +5000
Carly Fiorina +12500
Ben Carson +20000
Ooh, can one bet against Trump with a similar line?