2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Celebrated Photographer: Yes, that is Bernie Sanders. Time Magazine is lying [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)We're running out of time on this, but I do think if more Americans are made aware of this on the Democratic side, and more Republicans and independents can also see Bernie's stances on it, I think he has room to grow his populist support. But the establishment press and party leadership seems to want to hide this from the electorate, knowing that it is a weakness for Clinton, and also probably from the establishment not wanting to elevate this to the point that they have to have Bloomberg in the race to support their desires with "free trade" and these guest worker programs if it were a Bernie/Cruz or Trump matchup.
Not sure how we can get this lobbied for as a debate question in any of the remaining debates, but I think it needs to be asked, and soon!
When you see Rubio in a debate criticizing Cruz for switching from being pro-H-1B to now being one to want to limit it like Trump has campaigned on, I think that it must be a bigger issue than we might think for Republican voters. Though there is a lot of xenophobic sentiment that Trump and Cruz are trying to appeal to (and I note that to split these voters, the corporate media will try to position this issue as a xenophobic one), I do think that there are a LOT of Republicans (like Reagan Democrats in Reagan's time) who are worried about their jobs, and Bernie could come across as the one to get Republicans to cross over and become Sanders Republicans like Reagan got Democrats to become Reagan Democrats on a populist issue like this. This is why you have right wing sites like Breitbart.com, Daily Caller, and others talking even more heavily than progressive sites. The Disney lawsuit, etc. recently has brought it more to the mainstream, and even Thom Hartmann has talked more about this over the last week, and I think gives Democrats like Bernie the room to give a more nuanced support for the controlling this program for the right reasons, and not just to "keep foreigners out". that I don't think is the focus of concern over it even amongst Republicans.
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