Current Affairs 2020 Democratic Primary
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He announced a few weeks ago he's not. The list of candidates was of declared and potential candidates.
Beto Doodle went to town in Daddy's Eldorado
Put a dog turd in a bowl and called it avocado.
Not mine, but I wish it was...
Put a dog turd in a bowl and called it avocado.
Not mine, but I wish it was...
Thanks for the productive and insightful post.
I don't post unless I have a genuine contribution to make. Thanks!
oooh, good tweet Pete!
abelard
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If Beto, the oil companies' mercenary Barbie, is the best that liberals can come up with in response to spiraling corruption/imminent environmental catastrophe/the deflating soufflé of QE asset bubbles, then we might as well all just give up now. Il faut cultiver notre jardin, etc.
It is as though 40% of the Democrats' mental clocks all stopped on the evening of 4 November 2008.
On the other hand, it might be fun for us to actually agree on something - though you will have to do better than internet dad-humour like ^that^ though...
I like Warren and apart from Sanders she is the only candidate I would be satisfied to see winning the nomination.
But as others have noted, electability is a legitimate concern - she comes across as basically Lisa Simpson, and does not yet really appear capable of holding her own against the noise of the right.
Sadly, politics, especially in the United States, is no longer really a forum where policy ideas alone suffice; hers are at least as inchoate as Bernie's, but she lacks his talent for passionately repeating the same things thousands of times in a row.
In any case, if Sanders does win, it is a certainty that she will play a major role in the government that follows.
I think O'Rourke has the best chance of that lot of being elected - the best of a bad bunch. I think Warren would be battered personally.
Sanders is too much of an extreme opposite of Trump. The way to win for the Dems is to appeal to the moderates who may have voted Trump but regret doing so.
Sanders is too much of an extreme opposite of Trump. The way to win for the Dems is to appeal to the moderates who may have voted Trump but regret doing so.
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Amazing lol
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Wow. Hot take.
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Too much Wall St. in the democratic party. Even if she gets some momentum the entire leadership of the party will turn on her. Wall Street is perfectly fine w/ a democrat who will raise their tax rates up a few percentage points. They loved Obama. What they really fear is someone like Warren or Sanders who won't treat financial crimes as a cost of doing bidness and who would staff a DOJ and a SEC with procecuters who would throw them in prison.
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