Why Bernie Wins in One Word: Class

The ONLY Dem candidate that has ANY class is Tulsi Gabbard. You're welcome.
Hopefully, Bernie will offer her Secretary of State?
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https://nypost.com/2019/10/22/tulsi...s-foreign-policy-a-disaster-in-latest-retort/
lol Secretary of State of what? Bernie won't come anywhere near a win on the first ballot and in a brokered convention, it will be a choice between Biden holding on to Obama's tattered shirt tales or Bloomberg waving his billions around.
 
All of those were caused, to one extent or another, by the immense, bloated, and meddlesome gubmint that both you and comrade Sanders want to put on steroids.

Rube.
Ending wars and closing 900 overseas military bases we never needed.

The elephant in the room.
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Ending wars and closing 900 overseas military bases we never needed.
Would Bernie or any other POTUS last any longer in office than JFK if he or she actually tried ending the MIC?
 
Bernie is rich

so if he hates the rich does he hate himself too?
Why would he?

His net worth is less than one percent of Trump's or Bloomberg's, and there's no indication he's ever dodged his taxes or proposed tax cuts for affluent Americans.


Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget

"Aristotle, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, Adam Smith and Karl Marx grounded their philosophies in the understanding that there is a natural antagonism between the rich and the rest of us.

"The interests of the rich are not our interests.

"The truths of the rich are not our truths.

"The lives of the rich are not our lives.

"Great wealth not only breeds contempt for those who do not have it but it empowers oligarchs to pay armies of lawyers, publicists, politicians, judges, academics and journalists to censure and control public debate and stifle dissent."
Bernie is in the top 1%

sure he’s not a billionaire but he has far more than the shoeless snowflakes who expect him to pay off their college loans
 
Would Bernie or any other POTUS last any longer in office than JFK if he or she actually tried ending the MIC?
No one president can change anything without
70 to 80 % support of the American people, as far as that goes.
No one president can change anything without
70 to 80 % support of the American people, as far as that goes.
Public opinion has shifted dramatically since November 1964
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I'm not so sure about the CIA and Joint Chiefs?
 
The ONLY Dem candidate that has ANY class is Tulsi Gabbard. You're welcome.
Hopefully, Bernie will offer her Secretary of State?
tulsi-gabbard-hillary-clinton.jpg

https://nypost.com/2019/10/22/tulsi...s-foreign-policy-a-disaster-in-latest-retort/
lol Secretary of State of what? Bernie won't come anywhere near a win on the first ballot and in a brokered convention, it will be a choice between Biden holding on to Obama's tattered shirt tales or Bloomberg waving his billions around.

Partially correct, Hillary will be the nominee
 
sure he’s not a billionaire but he has far more than the shoeless snowflakes who expect him to pay off their college loans
What effect does the $1.5 trillion in student loans have on GDP growth? Who gets rich from that debt, those who extract wealth from society or those who produce it?
 
Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget

"Aristotle, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, Adam Smith and Karl Marx grounded their philosophies in the understanding that there is a natural antagonism between the rich and the rest of us.

"The interests of the rich are not our interests.

"The truths of the rich are not our truths.

"The lives of the rich are not our lives.

"Great wealth not only breeds contempt for those who do not have it but it empowers oligarchs to pay armies of lawyers, publicists, politicians, judges, academics and journalists to censure and control public debate and stifle dissent."
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In the link, Chris Hedges explains why the rich are happy to talk about race, sexual identity, gender, patriotism, religion, immigration, abortion, and gun control.

Because those issues divide the public into multiple warring tribes of culture combatants, and, in the process, demonstrating why malignant parasites like Trump and Bloomberg can switch effortlessly from one party to the other.


"Once oligarchs seize power, Aristotle wrote, a society must either accept tyranny or choose revolution."

If he was right, what's your choice?
Yah, go with that since it ALWAYS works in America
Yah, go with that since it ALWAYS works in America
Never Underestimate Trump.

Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget

"The culture wars give the oligarchs, both Democrats and Republicans, the cover to continue the pillage.

"There are few substantial differences between the two ruling political parties in the United States.

"This is why oligarchs like Donald Trump and Michael Bloomberg can switch effortlessly from one party to the other.

"Once oligarchs seize power, Aristotle wrote, a society must either accept tyranny or choose revolution."

What's your choice?
You're talking about two limo liberals from NYC. Bloomberg is unelectable because he remains limo liberal. Trump reinvented himself as everyone's favorite bully on Apprentice where they can dream about firing people they don't like. Neither is really an oligarch. Bill Gates, Bezos, Buffet, Munchin, ……

But Bernie's problem is that the only Time America ever embraced class warfare was FDR and the great depression, and even then people just wanted their jobs and farms back, and the money elite that hadn't lost their inherited fortunes were simply not going to embrace govt mandated employment and socialism … even though FDR never was committed to transforming America to actual socialism. And FDR was vilified by the very rich, not the other way around.

Bernie posits the election of "us" against "the rich." That's never won an election before. And I don't think it will now. It's McGovern II.

But today's gop believes the top 10% pay too much of the overall income tax (although McConnell's tax cut raised taxes on some in that group as well inorder to really give the vast benefit to the top 1%)

And it's true that the tax burden has shifted from workers. But their incomes are still stagnant compared to how much befalls the real oligarchs.

Bernie may see the problem, but his solutions are just the tired rhetoric that failed previously.
 
sure he’s not a billionaire but he has far more than the shoeless snowflakes who expect him to pay off their college loans
What effect does the $1.5 trillion in student loans have on GDP growth? Who gets rich from that debt, those who extract wealth from society or those who produce it?
Who gets rich from the debt?

the lenders and the greedy educators who overcharge the kiddies for their education
 

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You don't like it when corporations return money to their owners?
Fuck you, start your own company.
We give the investment class huge tax cuts to spur investment in new jobs and higher wages but it seems they just stick it in their pocket and very little trickles down. "The stockholders" don't give a fuck who gets shafted or exploited as long as their dividend check arrives on time.
We give the investment class huge tax cuts to spur investment in new jobs and higher wages but it seems they just stick it in their pocket and very little trickles down. "The stockholders" don't give a fuck who gets shafted or exploited as long as their dividend check arrives on time.
Shareholder supremacy has much in common with the Divine Right of Kings; both are inherently undemocratic.

The Divine Right of Capital by Marjorie Kelly: A Summary (Chp. 4)

"Public corporations function like monarchies after England’s Glorious Revolution – when the king’s power was superseded by Parliament, the seats of the aristocracy.

"In the case of the corporation, the CEO is king but it is shareholders who hold the real power behind the throne.

"Instead of the divine right of kings, today we have the divine right of capital ..."

"In closed societies, the fate of society is equated with the fate of the ruling class.

"These societies create taboos to take certain topics out of the realm of debate and discussion, and blending natural laws (like gravity) with normative laws (a societal norm, like the divine right of kings).

"Today we have confused the idea that 'the only responsibility of the corporation is to make a profit' with a natural law, when in fact, it is just expresses a norm or set of behaviors that we currently practice."


Shareholder supremacy has much in common with the Divine Right of Kings; both are inherently undemocratic.

As a shareholder, you're free to vote for or against issues that come up at the annual meeting.

As an employee, you don't own any shares.

Why would giving you a vote be democratic?
Why would denying you the vote you don't have be undemocratic?
 
The fly in the soup for Marx was that he did not foresee the rise of a capitalist spawned comfortable middle class.
The US middle class came from the greatest failure of capitalism in world history, the Great Depression. Marx certainly saw how an economic system that was as prone to busts and booms as capitalism would likely produce such an event.
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Great Depression | Time

Marx certainly saw how an economic system that was as prone to busts and booms as capitalism would likely produce such an event.

Is that why Russia's, Cuba's and Venezuela's economies are so awesome?
No capitalistic busts and booms?
 

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