No problem. These are troubled times and also I assume we’re both drunk. 
I represent that remark.
42% is still by far the largest single demographic unit in the nation, even if it’s not as big as it once was.
I’ve very often heard that sentiment in so many words when it comes to rich people. Let’s take more of what they have and divide it up. The people who say that think they have good reasons, and they probably rationalize that it’s much different than openly proposing to take stuff away from union members or whatever. But I don’t think anyone can deny it’s a commonly verbalized sentiment on the left, ever since there’s been a concept of a ‘left’. And the targets often in practice extend to people who might reasonably dispute that they are ‘rich’.
For either case, though rich people or union members (just as example) there are varying opinions whether their relative good fortune comes at the expense of others. Again with rich people that’s a common belief on the left, no need to re-litigate it here. But also within economics there are differing opinions whether unionization, labor price fixing, basically operates like any other price fixing: in favor of the people fixing the price to the detriment of everyone else. Or, if there are secondary positive effects of unionization (economic, even social as in something to belong to rather than more isolated lives people tend to live now) that offset the price fixing inefficiency enough to make it a net positive for people other than the union members (not much doubt it makes union members better off at least in the short term…same as it would make supermarket owners better off at least in the short term if they were allowed to get together and fix grocery prices).
I’ve heard people say about autoworker union jobs “Nobody should get paid $30/hour for putting bolts on a car”
I’m not sure where you’re going with this, but there does seem to be a sharp political line between white Christians and non-white Christians.
OK Boomer is about the most self defeating thing you can say in politics. Boomers vote at much higher rates than any other group. They swing elections. So you can either listen to their concerns or you can lose elections.
I happen to agree that free state college tuition can be a great thing electorally. After all most people have kids and grandkids that may face college expenses on their future. But the devil is in the details and forgiving existing college debt for investment bankers doesn’t seem necessary.
That all depends on what you were told Democrats stood for.
I don’t see either of those working.
I’d vote that having psychotics act as a component of your internal structure is bad hiring practices.
Apparently what they are concerned about is making it difficult for those who came behind them to get much of what they got to take for granted. He is like the poster child for OK Boomer. You bet I am going to call him on it.
Boomers also die at a higher rate. Who is going to replace them?
I don’t see anyone demanding 100% debt relief for everyone. There can be a discussion for what is the most fair way to go about it. For starters they could change bankruptcy laws so student loans could be discharged. This would also come with the punishment of damaging their credit scores if punishing them makes you feel better.
But Carville doesn’t even want to have the discussion.
Well for a few things, the vulnerable, the working person and equal opportunity. Am I wrong?
Here is an article from May, 2016. Millennials are catching up in numbers to Boomers. If Democrats don’t start winning over young voters the Republicans might.
What a hack, Trumpian response. I like Carville, but man is he being dumb here.
But he’s still right. We can argue about the differences between communist, socialist and democratic socialist all day. All the republican PACs need to do to convince enough Americans that Bernie is the second coming of Lenin is to use his old clips.
Hold on. Carville calls Sanders a communist, and you say he’s right?
Sounds to me like the Republican PACs don’t need to do that much work to convince Americans that Sanders is a communist, if Democrats are equally eager to tell that story, and equally credulous when they hear it.
Yep, Sanders is doomed.
That’s nuts. Bernie’s advocating for policies like Canada, Denmark, Finland, etc.
Nah, he’s right.
I’m sorry, Bernie may end up taking over the Democratic party, but he hasn’t won hearts and minds. Sanders and his supporters believe that they will just eventually persuade people with the courage of their convictions, but they’re just totally blind.
There are videos of Bernie praising Castro and other communist regimes. Sure most are old and he’s gotten a lot better about not expressing those kind of comments in recent years but do you really think that matters? Even if it was 30 years ago how do you think those videos will play in a place like Florida? And you are talking about policies? I’m talking about his own words coming back to bury him in 30 second increments on tv.
Most Americans don’t want to be like Canada, Denmark, or Finland - we’re not even remotely the same kind of society. There are ways to improve the system without setting the apartment complex on fire.
And he still calls himself a ‘socialist’!!! It doesn’t get any worse. Sanders will be the living meme of the Democratic party that the Republicans have tried to use to label every single successful Democratic politician since time immemorial - okay, since the 1930s but you get the idea.
And even those who do (like me), don’t think Bernie will move us very far in that direction (or at all) in the remote chance he would get elected.
I think we’ll make more progress with Pete or Amy in charge over the next four years than we would with Bernie.