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Prosper

(761 posts)
Mon Sep 23, 2019, 02:21 PM Sep 2019

The working class would benefit the most from

progressive programs. So what are they hearing???

Going to come into your house and take your guns.

Medicare for all is to expensive even tho thousands are dying earlier and suffering more.

A candidate proposing left programs that will help you can’t get elected because the rest of the people don’t care that you will die because you can’t afford medicine or treatment.

The leading candidate doesn’t care that you are making the same as you did 50 years ago or that you can’t scrape up $400 because he is not going to rock the boat with any equalizing laws.

Better start talking to the other half or they’ll become deplorable.

Biden promises wealthy donors he would not 'demonize' the rich - POLITICO
Jun 19, 2019 · Former Vice President Joe Biden told a room of affluent New York donors on Tuesday night that he doesn't think it's appropriate

Promise middle class will do well and wealthy will do very well and poor will see some light.

That’s not gonna work Joe.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
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George II

(67,782 posts)
1. So you boiled down the last six months or so of campaigning by about 20 candidates....
Mon Sep 23, 2019, 02:24 PM
Sep 2019

...to five sentences?

But I see you didn't say anything specific about your candidate's policies.

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Ohiogal

(31,989 posts)
2. I scratch my head at this concept, too
Mon Sep 23, 2019, 02:28 PM
Sep 2019

They don't want affordable health care? A living wage? Decent working conditions/rights? Affordable child care?

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TidalWave46

(2,061 posts)
3. It's sad to watch the attacks on progressives and Democrats....
Mon Sep 23, 2019, 02:31 PM
Sep 2019

All because Sanders is going backwards. Sanders has some good ideas. There are simply much better options than him and he is running an extremely poor campaign. These aggressive attacks full of half-truths are a part of his failing. Sorry to see people doubling down.

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Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
5. Sanders is completely responsible for his going backward.
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 12:09 AM
Sep 2019

He has a singular view of issues and appears to be intolerant of any disagreement with his proposals, that never leads to progress.

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Prosper

(761 posts)
4. My candidate is the Democratic Party and what they can do for the working class. The things I listed
Mon Sep 23, 2019, 09:47 PM
Sep 2019

are exactly what will give the election to Trump. He is going to come out full speed ahead promising Health Care for all and not denying anybody that can't pay. He is going to once again promise Lots of good paying jobs. He'll promise that nobody is going to forcibly confiscate guns. He is going to promise that a vote for a Democratic is a vote for socialism. Middle of the road incrementalism is going to hand the election to Trump. The working poor are suffering and dying because they can't afford medical and medicine. Easing into ACA improvements means letting some people suffer more and die earlier. Biden is running to the right of Hillary and the laughing stock of the world beat that program because he addressed the working poor. Warren is not falling behind and I respect her candidacy as much as I do Sanders. 50 plus years of stagnated working people wages while a series of laws like permitting things like 300% usury interest rates are an abomination. I am not attacking anything, I am sounding an alarm.

Don't forget that Trump was perceived as the biggest unelectable losing candidate when he declared in 2015. Gonna make that mistake again. Hopefully he will be in jail and can't be elected but in the mean time a meaningful campaign must be run against him in case he is still in office. He is already on record promising Healthcare for all and nobody denied because they can't pay.

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