Put this into action (again) and you give Trump yet another four years, just to stick it to the Dems who aren't as uber-left as you are...
False. I could say, put YOUR view into action (again - what do you mean again, you got your corporatist candidate with Hillary in 2016) and you give trump another four years - both to show how easy it is to say, AND because it's a lot more true about you.
America simply isn't that far left.
First of all, this isn't only about what the country currently wants - it's about what the country needs. And the biggest threat we have to our country and our democracy is plutocracy, and we need to battle it.
The issue of what the country wants is part of the question - and the country supports Bernie's policies. And you are ignoring the issues of Democratic turnout - getting more of the Democrats who don't vote to do so, which Bernie does and your candidates do not - and voter passion, not to mention Bernie's crossover appeal to independents (he got twice as many as Hillary) and even trump voters (many trump voters would have voted for Bernie, but not Hillary).
I'd like it (and you wouldn't) if both the Dems and GOP split down the middle. That way those around the center could generally hold power and get things done, without the more radical ideas from either fringe gumming things up.
The center doesn't get CRAP done. It does nothing but sit in office while plutocracy continues to gain wealth and power and destroy our democracy. Saying they 'get things done' is propaganda and a lie - as is the word 'radical' for progressive policies. Healthcare and education are not "radical", our record inequality and plutocracy are radical.
We're already borrowing a trillion a year to fund tax cuts.
The progressive budget balances the budget faster than the Republican, the Democratic, or the actual budgets.
Meanwhile, the far left Dem candidates are talking about massive spending increases without a way to pay for it.
Attacking a more fair distribution of wealth in the country with the claim that there isn't 'a way to pay for it' is another propaganda lie. Their policies all show how they'll pay for it. You can't attack the goal, so you attack a straw man lie.
And Bernie? **** Bernie's one-time study loan payoff plan. It may sound good to people who just had to go to a super-expensive private school and got a degree they couldn't convert into a job, but it doesn't sound good to everyone else......especially those who paid off their loans or went to a more affordable in-state state university, or went to a vocational school and jumped right into a job, etc, specifically because they were thinking ahead from the circumstances they found themselves in. But that's just one program.
Nit-picking. It's a good program that's an improvement over the current situation.
The candidates around Bernie's place on the left are actually finally lending some truth to the "free stuff" critique. We're not paying for what we have now. Put their policies into practice and we'll be borrowing trillions a year. That could only last a short time.
Lies. You need to get informed - giving you the benefit of the doubt that you just aren't informed, rather than dishonest.
And if the rejoinder is "but it won't get through congress", I say what the hell kind of reason is THAT to support a candidate? If there's no way a given uber-left policy is going to pass congress, then the candidate is wasting his/her time going on about how they're going to get it done.
Give me a president who is trying to get good policies and has a hard time over a president who gets bad policies.
