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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders's attack machine comes back to haunt him [View all]Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)59. The thing that Bernie will not discuss.
"... and trying to govern in the messy world of real politics wherein the other party will never vanish..."
He will not discuss this. Avoids it or resorts to nonsense about people rising up and joining him and his revolution and then the reality of the world we live in will change so forget actual reality. BernieMagik.
How BernieMagik will enact (make into law) Medicare for All - 'the single most ambitious, disruptive piece of social policy ever passed in America':
"I will tell you how we'll do it," Sanders said. "We'll do it the way real change has always taken place, whether it was the labor movement, the civil rights movement, or the women's movement. We will have Medicare for All when tens of millions of people are prepared to stand up and tell the insurance companies and the drug companies that their day is gone, that health care is a human right, not something to make huge profits off of."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/28/politics/bernie-sanders-2020-democratic-debate-medicare-for-all/index.html
"The Medicare-for-all bill he introduced on Wednesday would be the single most ambitious, disruptive piece of social policy ever passed in America. It would abolish the private health insurance industry as we know it and rebuild Medicare from the ground up as a national health system. But that is the beginning of Sanderss vision, not the end. He also wants to flesh out and pass a Green New Deal, break up the big banks, protect voting rights, and get big money out of American politics, to name just a few things.
Under current Senate rules, all of these bills would need 60 votes to pass. There is no plausible path by which Democrats will have 60 votes in the Senate. Even a simple majority will be hard. As such, Sanders had proposed an agenda whose passage was unthinkable under the current Senate rules."
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/11/18306132/bernie-sanders-filibuster-budget-reconciliation-medicare-60-votes
Messy world of real politics vs Our Revolution and its unthinkable passage agenda 2020.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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Lacks the racism and misogyny of many of Cenk's screeds. But he's a Left Wing hero now.
ehrnst
Jan 2020
#84
i didn't bother to read it. why the hell would i. after trump she'll be calling dems socialist again
Kurt V.
Jan 2020
#20
How entitled does someone have to be to 'splain to someone else what they *really* think?
lapucelle
Jan 2020
#76
Certainly Cenk used to be a RWer....and very racist and misogynist. Expelled from Justice Dems even.
ehrnst
Jan 2020
#89
His comment came after he was asked about Hillary's people calling him unqualified.
aikoaiko
Jan 2020
#13
He isn't a dem..he's an independent. He's using the dem party to run his campaign as he did in 16
Thekaspervote
Jan 2020
#31
Again, there's more to the Clinton/Sanders "qualified to be President" dustup
TiberiusB
Jan 2020
#23
sanders was such a weak candidate that he has never been vetted and was treated with kid gloves
Gothmog
Jan 2020
#43
Her analysis is spot on. In doling out honest criticism of Sanders, she shows she is certainly
emmaverybo
Jan 2020
#45
Hillary Clinton was correct to be worried about sanders' bogus attacks and lies on real Democrats
Gothmog
Jan 2020
#46
sanders is such a weak general election candidate that trump will easily win 45+ states
Gothmog
Jan 2020
#57
Thank you!! Politics is a very messy business. It's not about purity and governing just the far left
Thekaspervote
Jan 2020
#64
Coming back to haunt him? Looks to me like it's propelling him to Number 1 position!
m-lekktor
Jan 2020
#95