Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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Did they still have to work hard? Of course they did! And the policies we're talking about here would not provide easy street for people; it would simply make the floor high enough that as many people as possible could reach for their dreams. America itself would be better off.
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That's where we disagree. When I think of my grandparents and great-grandparents and their incredible struggles, I don't see something good. I see something we needed to evolve beyond. Nothing beautiful about their poverty. Now we need to do for others what others did for them.
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I’m not saying America doesn’t have incredible economic opportunities for many people, because it does. But “many people” is not good enough. The chance to live a decent life should not be a club that not enough people have a chance to get into.
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I had parents who could afford them, plus excellent public schools, excellent libraries, and economic opportunities when I was in my “20s and ‘30s that do not exist today.
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I think it does: “to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare & secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the US...”
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The same money that is now used to give tax breaks to the very richest & corporate subsidies to huge corporate interests. Plus everything I mentioned would only make the economy grow because more people coukd be productive and creative.
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Universal healthcare, free college, no college loan debt, no medical bankruptcy, fair minimum wage…those should be seen as basics provided by government to allow people a reasonable opportunity to thrive. PERIOD.
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All I want is for young people to have the same opportunities I had when I was young. That should not be seen as a radical leftie position. What are now seen as radical left issues are considered moderate policies in most European countries & should be seen that way here as well.
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He wasn’t allowed to. If the 2016 primary had not been rigged - and yes it was - then either Hillary or Bernie would have won but we we would’ve all felt good about it. All Dems would’ve shown up at the polls and Trump would not have won.
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The state of the country be damned? Issues are irrelevant? Exactly what George Washington said: political parties form “factions who put their party over their country.”
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So Donna Brazile’s book was wrong after ‘16 and the mysterious call the night before Super Tuesday never happened in ‘20?
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She’d just completed work on the Bernie campaign. It’s well-established now that the Bernie campaign was suppressed. She had an angry moment -the type of thing that happens to everyone. People are holding her to moment that unfairly. She’s worked for yrs for the Democratic Party
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Democrats now have to line up in some kind of creepy loyalty to Biden the way Republicans line up in creepy loyalty to Trump? Democracy means we don’t always agree! A disagreement is not an attack. She did not “spend 5 years viciously attacking the party.”
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Beto O'Rourke
I’m not young, but if I were I would be very resentful of people who carelessly exploit the resources of this planet and won’t even be around long enough to suffer the consequences of their misdeeds.
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Indeed. And I would again, given the alternative. I still prefer a measured decline to a straight descent.
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