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Curly;n1465599 said:Also called a perfect.
Voicer;n1465707 said:Perv.
Prim0;n1466624 said:#metoo......unless it's a democrat, right. Oh....that's just ole Joe. He don't mean nuffin by it! You've got to believe the woman's story about how she felt......but that don't mean he can't run for President.
You can argue to prevent a Supreme Court Justice from getting the position because a woman made a claim about a alleged action decades ago with no proof and no witnesses, but you can watch Ole Joe groping women and girls (there are plenty of pictures and videos) and blow it off as no big deal.
If you cannot see or admit your own hypocrisy, you might be a liberal democrat. :biggrin2:
I can. You're not going to agree with who I think can easily beat Trump, so instead I'll explain the type of person who can beat Trump. This person needs to have a consistent message, and a straight message, no "if's, and's, or but's". This person needs to be able to defend their position vigorously in the face of opposition pushback. They need to pushback against the pushback. The person who will do the best job of pushing back against the pushback, is the person who actually believes in their message, and doesn't just hold this position because the polls say it's the best position to hold.Prim0;n1466811 said:Right now, I don't see who could really beat Trump.
The Democratic Establishment is hoping he is the next Obama 2.0. Obama himself is now being looked upon as a severe disappointment within the Democratic party (by regular members, not leadership, of course). He's looked on as weak and unable to do any basic pushback against him. He was so worried about being labled the "angry black guy" that he stood by and did nothing that he promised. There's no mood for that sort of leadership in the party anymore, they want a true activist, and Beto isn't it.Beto is an empty suit calling on his supporters to tell he what he should be. Not great leadership by definition.
That's not an argument, it's just a talking point. Bernie, Biden, Trump, Hillary, were all just a few years apart. Biden and Bernie seem to be fittest ones there of their age group. White? Bernie is just killing it with ethnic groups (blacks, asians, hispanics, etc.), he's easily polling in the 60%, 70% popularity ranges with all of them. He's twice as popular with black folks than Kamala Harris is, who is supposed to be black herself.Bernie.....too old and white....maybe.
No, he's too far to the right for the current Democratic base. If it wasn't for his handsiness, he would still be in trouble for his past policies on crime, race, and women. His positions on Medicare4All, Minimum Wage, free-trade, etc. does not fit in the current Democratic party. He's only popular because he has nostalgia from the Obama days, but like Hillary, as soon as he enters and starts talking, his popularity is going to plummet.Biden....probably the best chance but all the other candidates are going after him now.
Are you sure about that? Most of the policies they are talking about have incredible popularity among Americans, well over 70% or 80% in some cases. M4A, Green New Deal, higher taxation for billionaires, etc. If you don't attach any labels (Democrat, liberal, progressive, socialist) whatsoever to these policies, they enjoy huge approval. And even when assigning political labels, they still hold incredible approval. People under 60, are split on their opinion about Socialism. People under 40, are roughly mostly in favour of socialism. People under 30, have absolutely no problem with the word socialism. The people brainwashed by the Cold War days, the fierce anti-socialists are dying off.I think the Dems are kind of stuck. The more radical left wants a socialist but I don't think that will actually get them the votes. The loud squeeky voices might make them think that the country wants radical leftism but I think most of the silent majority....
Obamacare is also known as Romneycare, it was a right-wing Republican thinktank generated plan. It was obviously going to fail, it kept the insurance companies in place. Medicare4All is quite different and is a proper left-wing plan that is well-tested in the rest of the world, including up here in Canada. It works better all over the world than the system in place in America.Dems want single payer health care....but they just watched Obamacare fail at its intention to lower health care costs.
You see the economy is only doing well for the upper classes, it's not doing all that well for the working classes, where most jobs are now minimum wage and/or part-time. These are the vast majority that have not shared in the American prosperity. People are living from paycheck to paycheck, even if they have some high-paying jobs. Just look at the government workers who went to food banks when the government was shutdown.I think the average American is happy to see that unemployment is way down, that the economy seems to be doing well, that we're standing up to our adversaries and our "allies".
That's not what the purpose of the Electoral College was. it was set up that way because back in the 18th century there weren't any telecommunications systems and electronic vote counting systems that could count up millions of votes in seconds and transmit the results all around the country. So they broke up the voting into more easily counted Electors who represented the voters of their state. There's no need for that system in a modern world. Representation of the "little guy" should be done by the two branches of Congress. Neither branch works that well, so they now look to the presidential branch to achieve some sort of ad hoc regional representation.Isn't that why Dems are now arguing to get rid of the Electoral College. The thing that makes sure that the little guy is heard.