You know it's almost 300 days to the GE? And that in New Hampshire, 300 days out Hillary was beating Bernie in the polls like Donald Trump's rug?
Ask yourself why there are Republicans for Bernie Sanders groups, if Bernie is inevitable to beat every Republican in the GE. The reality is they know how untenable his proposals really are. Bernie might talk about how wonderful the $15 per hour minimum wage in SeaTac is (and it is), but he forgets to tell you a few things: it's only for transportation workers, hotel workers in properties with more than 100 rooms, and restaurants with more than 10 non-supervisory employees. If you pump gas into Airbuses, you earn $15 per hour - well, a little more now because it's indexed to inflation - but if you pump gas into Buicks, you earn a lot less. The law works well as it is, but if they expanded it to ALL the businesses in SeaTac, most of those businesses would pack up and move to Tukwila or Kent.
Plus, I can't think of a place in America where $15 is a "living wage." In small towns and rural areas it's too high, and in big cities it's still too low. A baseline $12 and targeted higher wages where necessary makes far more sense.
The healthcare plan is unworkable. Flat out. It relies on a LOT of assumptions that may not work out in practice...like, oh, the willingness of Mr. Goldman and Mr. Sachs to not just tell America, "fuck y'all, we're not going to pay everyone's doctor bills by ourselves, we're going to take our billions and go live on an island somewhere."
I've also read the "how Bernie will pay for his programs" graphic. Very strange. He plans to pay for three different programs by "closing Wall Street loopholes." Dude, you can only close a loophole one time.
Do you want to know the ad that will kill Bernie once and for all? While an announcer is talking about how Sanders' plans rely on the same tax hikes, a beautifully manicured woman's hand will be folding $100 bills in half and placing them in her wallet - implying that Sanders' plan works the same as doubling your money by folding it in half.
It is much better that we defeat Sanders in the primary and run Hillary Clinton, who has a long history of being able to turn Republican bullshit back around on them, in the general. Hillary can beat any Republican on experience alone, and her policies, while not as superficially wonderful as Sanders', are light years ahead of anything on that side of the ballot. Most of the Republicans who have already dropped out of the primary race could come back and thump Sanders. Trump, Cruz and Rubio can all do it.
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