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  1. 2 hours ago, Solinvictus said:

    Exactly, you see Americans especially those over 45 have really been fully 'wiped' in terms of demanding more basic human rights. IMO. Folks in France protest all the time.

     

    It's nuts really when you think about it. Why does the US not have free healthcare. Not to mention society that addresses income inequality. People will argue, 'how will you pay for it'? LOL They don't ask that question when in comes to THE MILITARY.

     

    What we have here is a politician that has been striving for the people for over 20 years. Not voting for Bernie, IMO, is not only lacking empathy for your fellow American but actually against your own socioeconomic interest. Oh, did I mention, naive...????

    The Veteran's Administration is a severly strained organization run by the Federal Gov. We wish not to have the Gov add to the mess by taking over all healthcare in the US.

     

    The Federal Gov is not meant to be a national baby sitter directing everything, and the Gov is a neccessary evil that serves the will of the people and is not meant to run our entire lives.

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  2. 2 minutes ago, Berkshire said:

    Regarding your last sentence, I was thinking the same thing.  Bernie as the Dem nominee will not only be a gift to Trump, but it will probably take down the entire Democratic Party.  Just when the Republican Party itself was basically dying (replaced by the Trump Party). 

     

    What's crazy is that all this doom and gloom is the result of just 3 primaries in 3 tiny states.  And the media wants to anoint Bernie already. 

     

    I believe Biden will win big in South Carolina.  Joe B. will restore a bit of sanity in the Democratic Party. 

    Joe Biden is a crook in the early stage of dimentia, and everyone knows it. Fit only to be locked up at home with an ankle bracelet, instead of a cell, I would give him that much mercy.

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  3. 36 minutes ago, earlinclaifornia said:

    So both you and walkingorders believe he is communist. Please defing why you choose that term over his self proclaimed Democratis socialist?

    Because he has a lifetime of apologizing for totalitarian regimes, while at the same time claiming he opposes them? You remember the cold war right? AND he currently calls for nationalizing the entire US energy sector. No communist can be President. And communists like to hide out in other parties. Obviously CPUSA has no path to power  nor DSA.

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  4. 10 minutes ago, Solinvictus said:

    Exactly, you see Americans especially those over 45 have really been fully 'wiped' in terms of demanding more basic human rights. IMO. Folks in France protest all the time.

     

    It's nuts really when you think about it. Why does the US not have free healthcare. Not to mention society that addresses income inequality. People will argue, 'how will you pay for it'? LOL They don't ask that question when in comes to THE MILITARY.

     

    What we have here is a politician that has been striving for the people for over 20 years. Not voting for Bernie, IMO, is not only lacking empathy for your fellow American but actually against your own socioeconomic interest. Oh, did I mention, naive...????

    Bernie Sanders has spent an entire career agitating, because thats what Comrades do. But I hope he cleans house on Tuesday. Hasta La Victoria siempre!

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  5. 1 minute ago, sawadee1947 said:

    People who are calling him a communist don't know the difference between communism and socialism. 

    Many Govt. From Europe got socialist leader. Are they communists? Of course not. 

    As always, the claim that other people can't read, and that communists are only theoretical. I know a communist when I see one. Its anyone from an organization that calls each other Comrade. Communists ALWAYS hide who they are. 

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  6. 34 minutes ago, rhyddid said:

    Lets hope Bernie will be the main candidate supported by all Dem.

    he the only one can keep up with ego rotten Trump, his false promises (get out of middle east and much more) got a good part of voters tired of him, what Trump got now is only the racist suprematist, pro Zionist, and the bigot Church people.

    Bernie has a goot change to win the election if Dem fully support him, indeed we know several Dem top brass are on right wing Zionist payroll and therefore will do anything to boycott Bernie.
    Condir that Bernie is a Jew, but a good one, who really want peace with Palestine and in all middle east.

    If Americans, really want out of all these madness wars, end the huge continue mad shootings in their schools and be a positive leading country in the globe, Bernie is the man to be voted !

    Antisemetic rubbish from someone with no skin in the game of American politics who probably should concentrate on a post American withdraw from Germany and how to deal with Russia.

     

    This American supports dissolving NATO, withdrawing leaving Europe to its own and preparing a fleet for China, recommend the UK, AUS. And NZ start building Navys.

     

    Better the Russians tied up on their West then free to roam Eastward, and let France and Germany fight over who will be supreme allied Commander of EU forces.

     

    Dont call us.

     

    If only I can convince American lawmakers. The force grows. Time to leave.

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  7. 1 hour ago, Cory1848 said:

    In the 1970s Sanders indeed called for the nationalization of the energy sector, and he has at various times called himself a “socialist.” That was fifty years ago; he has since moderated his views, and he now refers to himself as a social democrat (“garden variety,” someone else posted), which is what all of his policy proposals in fact indicate.

     

    Have your views on things evolved at all in the past fifty years? I should certainly hope that they have.

     

    As for wanting to throw oil industry executives in jail, that’s hardly staking out a broad political position one way or the other. I don’t know when he said it or in what context and I’m not going to bother looking it up, but I’m sure you’re right. Don’t you think the tobacco company executives, for instance, should have been punished for lying over a period of many years about the harmful effects of smoking cigarettes, including lying in front of Congress? I do! But that doesn’t make me a communist.

    Not in the 1970s a few weeks ago.

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  8. 11 minutes ago, cmarshall said:

    In fact, Sanders is a garden variety social democrat like many European politicians.

     

    Socialism calls for state ownership of the means of production.  Sanders hasn't called for nationalization of any US industries.  The other labels are just idiotic.

    Sanders has called for the nationalization of the energy sector of the United States, and said oil execs belong in jail. His words not mine. He also labels himself a socialist.

     

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  9. 48 minutes ago, tlandtday said:

    There are two wild cards in the equation that could bring victory for Sanders.  1) illegal voters 2) the coronavirus will hurt the economy and the health care system will be in panic mode.  People want universal health care and this will make it even more necessary.

     

    Bernie is a communist sympathizer.   Communists who Bernie cherishes such as Stalin and Mao and Castro killed many of their own people with Stalin being a madman in a slaughterhouse responsible for millons of deaths through his Gulags.  These Gulags were operated with the western powers knowing but doing nothing. A real crime against humanity.  So you want to start down Bernie's path?

    While I do fear a Comrade Bernie Presidency, I have no fear of him bringing Gulags.

  10. 1 hour ago, Cory1848 said:

    Thanks for the fact-based comment. The nonstop labeling of Sanders as a “socialist” or “communist” and the debasing of words like “socialism” and “socialized medicine” indeed get tiresome, and it’s only going to get worse if Sanders is the candidate. (And, given the apparent effectiveness of right-wing propaganda -- evidenced by many comments in this forum -- such labeling may indeed make it difficult for Sanders to get elected.)

     

    Sanders recognizes as you point out that the existing income disparity, and the completely unregulated brand of capitalism that allows such disparity to grow unchecked (neoliberalism), is morally repulsive. As for “socialized medicine,” a more palatable way to phrase it might be, the removal of the profit motive from all aspects of health care. (If the possibility exists to profit from the sale of opioids to the public, then plenty of entrepreneurs will step up and take advantage of that possibility; the only solution is to change the system.) Free-market capitalism is appropriate for consumer goods and services; it has no business influencing the distribution of essential human services.

    To be fair, Sanders considers himself a Socialist. I consider him a Marxist, and a Trotskyite.

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  11. 3 hours ago, Katipo said:

    It's kind of weird. Bernie is energising and uniting Democrats like no other candidate, and clearly appears to be the 'peoples choice', and yet the Dem establishment would have us believe he will harm Democratic chances of a win. How did that strategy work out for them last time? Hmmmmm. It's almost as though the Dem establishment is afraid of him. Hmmmmm. The two parties are different sides of the same coin. This is one of the reasons Trump succeeded, and hopefully why Bernie will also succeed. The US political establishment needs a complete colon cleanse.

    It can be said the establishment center of both parties, the neo con / neo liberal consensus, is indeed a two headed coin, but both parties are now severely fractured.

  12. 3 hours ago, Marknreston said:

    While your statement regarding Mayor Pete’s problems with millennials and minorities is true, it is also true that neither millennials nor minorities tend to turnout.   However, Sanders nomination for the Democratic Party nominee for President is a gift to Trump.  He will eat Sanders alive with Bernies socialist views and unaffordable/unpassable health, education, childcare plans. I spite of current polling numbers I can see another Nixon/McGovern scenario.  

    Potentially. The youth vote is an unknown, and that is a question, about minority vote as well. I do not underestimate Sanders.

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  13. This piece obviously meant to give Bernie a boost. Having said that, only one candidate.. All alone...has the enthusiasm, and momentum to give Trump a run.

     

    That is obviously Comrade Sanders.

     

    The rest of the Democrat pack is a feeble embarrassed mess, and if they really want to stop Trump, they should all throw the towel right now and get behind Sanders, and stop trying to tear him apart on the debate stage. On Super Tuesday he will destroy all of them, and if any backroom nonsense about superdelegates switching votes happens it will accomplish only one thing.

     

    It will give the appearance that Bernie is every bit the dangerous communist that conservatives, and even moderate Democrats say he is, because it will appear that even Democrats are afraid of him. This will potentially weaken him in the general election. How? It could cause moderates to simply stay home.

     

    Now can he beat Trump? The ability for Sanders to turn out the vote in substantial record breaking numbers, including blacks and Hispanics, without losing moderates is what he must do.

     

    Trump side is reporting a moderate increase of Hispanics and black voters. Blacks, as high as 22% or above. Does this translate to actual votes? Remains to be seen. 

     

    For certain, I respect the Sanders ground game. 

     

    As for Trump, his base will remain in unfractured and solid, and will show up and vote. Any minority move his way helps, capturing fear of Sanders a being far radical helps pull some centrist voters his direction. The youth vote? How big is it, and where is it?

     

    I know I have raised lots of questions, the temptation now is to start posting links to polls that bolster claims, and counter claims. I view all this as meaningless. 

     

    Bottom line which side gets a record turnout! And the longer the Democrats beat on Bernie, the harder they make it for him to win.

     

    I take the Sanders campaign seriously. And I favour Trump to win.

     

     

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