According to recent polls:

[Uncle Joe]

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[PortTack]

1. Kudos to Senator Sanders!!

[Sympthsical]

2. And as you can imagine, the Democratic voter numbers are higher

89% on the dental et al question, 78% on negotiating drug prices, etc.

It's all so unpopular! We probably shouldn't even attempt it. Just in case we get punished by . . . I dunno, DeSantis?

[rickyhall]

3. What the majority wants the repugs ignore and claim the opposite is true.

[gratuitous]

4. Those are some eye-popping numbers

You'd think the media would mention the polls from time to time in reporting on the looming Republican stalemate: The Republicans want the country to default on its obligations because they don't want these very popular proposals enacted.

[Farmer-Rick]

10. If America were a true democracy

Those things the Majority of voters wanted would already be enacted.

But only what the filthy rich....maybe a total of 300 people....want are ever a priority. That's what uncontrolled campaign contributions, frequently called bribes, does to democracy. Thank the Supreme Court.

[malaise]

21. The media are owned by the billionaires

They hate those numbers

[Mr.Bill]

5. I agree, but those polls are all the more reason

for the republicans to obstruct it then campaign on "Democrats controlled the White House, the House and the Senate and got nothing done." 90% of their voters will take that at face value. How many times did Trump say "The do-nothing Democrats" while the republicans in the Senate obstructed everything and no one, including the press called him on it. Now they don't even have to own up to controlling the Senate.

And of course, the republicans don't want any of those things passed, which is just icing on the cake.

[gratuitous]

13. I think you're right about the Republicans

I don't know why Democrats don't hang it around Republican necks. Run down the list of things that would have been improved by passing the bills, e.g., better schools, roads and bridges repaired, and say that none of this happened because of Republican obstructionist tactics. Tell the story, with specifics tailored to the locale or the audience.

[Demsrule86]

16. And that will mean exactly nothing...talk talk talk...so many think all we have to do is tell folks.

It simply isn't true. And polls like that are meaningless because the issues polled are not voting issues.

[Marius25]

6. That requires Manchin and Sinema being on board.

They aren't.

I think we've all learned that what the people want rarely matters.

[Moostache]

11. People refuse to accept math here....we need 51, the most we can get is 49.

There is no agenda or chance in hell that this gets done. None. Zero. Nada.

[DownriverDem]

7. I repeat

We need the votes. That means we need to win more elections. We need to unite to beat the repubs. We need to not have infighting. It's pretty clear we need to focus on voting in huge numbers for the Dems for the Midterms of 2022.

[Alliepoo]

8. What do we do in ridiculously

Gerrymandered states like Ohio? We can get out the vote til the cows come home to no avail. The pukes have this godforsaken state so tilted to their advantage I just don’t think it can be overcome. Hope the Elias lawsuit can help.

[Demsrule86]

15. That is not really true...there are many Democrats in Ohio but a weak party system.

It is the only way to over-perform as was done in Virginia.

[JoeOtterbein]

9. K n R ! Thanks for posting! nt

[Uncle Joe]

20. ...

[Mr. Ected]

12. The will of the vast majority of Americans can easily be vanquished by the powerful few

The American government experiment has been subverted by its other experiment: unbridled capitalism.

[George II]

14. I found his comment on members of congress' "religion" insulting. That's one subject that should....

....be left alone.

As for "ruling class", doesn't that refer to anyone who has been in Washington for decades?

[Uncle Joe]

17. I don't believe Bernie ever mentions Congress nor their religion

except in how they're taking on everything.

He does mention precisely who he believes the ruling class to be, he lists them off.

[George II]

18. He's referred to members of congress (not by name) as....

...the "ruling class" in the past.

His tweet says this:

The ruling class in this country is very, very religious. Their religion is greed.

[Uncle Joe]

19. Well you just mentioned Congress and Bernie didn't except in an oblique way as

being on the same side against the billionaire class and the forces of unrestrained greed; which he names off.

[Polybius]

22. The average American voter isn't smart

They support our policies, yet vote for Republicans. Biden's approval rating should be 70%, yet it's in the 40's. He's done nothing wrong.