Posted on 01/31/2020 12:32:41 PM PST by karpov
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[W]hat will get the Trump [campaign] working at full throttle is the central message of the Sanders campaign: that the United States needs a political revolution. It may very well need one. But most people don’t think so, as Barack Obama has argued. And getting two million new progressive votes in the usual area codes is not going to change that.
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But some of his other ideas are stillborn, or never get beyond the fringe. Socialism, despite its flavor-of-the-month appeal to young people, is not popular with the general public. Just 39 percent of Americans view socialism positively, a bare uptick from 2010, compared to 87 percent who have a positive view of free enterprise, Gallup found last fall.
What’s more, American confidence in the economy is now at the highest level in nearly two decades. That’s hardly the best condition for overthrowing the system.
Medicare for all, once people understand that it involves eliminating all private insurance, polls at barely above 40 percent in some surveys, versus the 70 percent who favor the option of Medicare for all who want it. Other polls show majority support. But cost is a huge concern. And even Sanders cannot give a price tag for nationalizing more than one-sixth of the economy.
A ban on fracking is a poison pill in a must-win state like Pennsylvania, which Democrats lost by just over 44,000 votes in 2016. Eliminating Immigration and Customs Enforcement, another Sanders plan, is hugely unpopular with the general public.
Sanders is a rigid man, and he projects grumpy old man rigidity, with his policy prescriptions frozen in failed Marxist pipe dreams. He’s unlikely to change.
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It is SO hypocritical that these leftists have taught this propaganda in our schools for decades NOW they can’t possible have a true socialist on the ticket BECAUSE all their money would DRY UP!! What hypocrites they truly are!!!
With the Slimes posting this article, it’s clear the DemonShit establishment is in full panic mode.
Sander exposes the true motives of the left... and we can’t have that.
Never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter. They voted Obama in twice and voted to make Nancy Pelosi speaker.
Sanders can’t win.
Trump, was going to get 35 states at least, no matter who the democrat nominee was, and that was before the #seinfeldimpeachment nonsense...
Thanks to this stupidity, (Which I believe was done from day one to take out Biden and hand the nomination to either Biden or Warren for 2020, and had nothing to do with Trump other than that’s what they wrapped it in to sell it to the public) regardless of the the D’s nominate, I fully expect Trump to win 40 states on the low end this fall.
Sanders has zero chance in winning the election, NO DEMOCRAT is bating Trump.. short of a complete economic collapse... or other black swan event of that magnitude.
Democrats seem bound and determined to repeat 1972... but this time with a 1984 economy at the incumbents back.
Aww, bet liberals are regretting blocking superdelegates from the first ballot now. Feel the bern...
Do not underestimate the appeal of Santa Claus bearing gifts.
2 things the poverty pimps (aka socialists) don’t like to talk about:
1.The poor don’t want to wipe out the rich class. They want IN.
2.Socialists ALWAYS require bailouts from capitalists.
If it’s a contest between the Grinch and Santa Claus, the red-suited guy will win.
Pro-Biden Tripe.
the heart of the problem with Bernie Sanders is that he loses most of his supporters after they learn he won’t share his secret chicken recipe
The socialist wolf has been knocking at the door for years, and has been fed campaign funding morsels.
Classic DC Divide & Control CRIMINAL STATE POS coming from the POWER CENTER. Hey old man...ESAD.
Dem establishment is looking at Sanders the way GOP establishment looked at Trump. “No way, this is just a joke.......OH CRAP!”
no no, that’s Huckabee-Sanders
Socialism has ruined the Democratic Party.
Their pandering to the AOC-wing has made them look foolish, and they’ve damaged their own brand, perhaps irreparably.
Thank God & POTUS Trump they haven’t been able to destroy the pillars of the USA as badly as they have their own selves.
If you think the never Trumpers have been an ongoing calamity for the Trump administration. Wait till you see the never Berns should he win the nomination.
Because people love to vote for a candidate who yells at them all the time.
If would no doubt shock them to realize how big a joke Bernie is seen as in much of Trump Country. A stereotypical New York City Jew who talks funny, spews communistic BS, and has never held a real job in his life. Yeah, that’s the ticked Dems...let the old socialist tear your party apart. No wait - you’d better put the old senile crooked guy who likes to touch children in...no hold on, that bitchy woman who claimed to be an Indian but sounds like your ex-motherinlaw...
Just pick one, Dems. It’ll be fun either way.
If Bernie does take Iowa and New Hampshire, the real panic will set in - the media blitz we’ll see then will be one for the ages. What happens to a Ruling Class when it loses control of both major parties?
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