Who do you like on the left?
You could take every example you gave about why people over 65 shouldn’t be allowed to be president and make it the reason they should be. They’ve been around long enough to see these shifts, to recognize the difficulty in bringing about change but have also seen that change can happen under the right circumstances. There are plenty of people over 65 that have as strong or stronger of a grasp on cutting edge technology as a 35 or 40 year old. I’m for capable and pragmatic people. I don’t much care what age they are.
According to FiveThirtyEight Bernie's polling second.
I'm sure he gets coverage but I'm kinda numb to the whole thing already. That's not to say he gets positive coverage. The MSM is really trying to sell Buttigieg for some reason. I can't tell you anything he proposes but I know he speaks Norwegian. Tulsi Gabbard gets so little coverage I've checked twice to see if she's dropped out. Which is fine by me.
I know nothing about Beto. Just saying that I’m burned out on hearing about what’s wrong. Shit is so wrong it’s ridiculous. But it’s been worse, so there’s that. Bernie sounds like he’s reading from Revelations. It’s a public service, and the job is crazy difficult if you’re doing it right. I want more can do humility, and honored for the opportunity stuff.
This is as bad as its been since the thirties. Not complaining is a bad thing. I don't even understand why you'd call them complainers. They have specific policies that address huge problems. Trump got elected by pandering to a dissatisfied population and using racism as the rallying cry for that dissatisfaction. If you nominate another Democrat in the Clinton or Obama mold they're going to lose or do nothing to address the problems that elected Trump and leave the door open for an even worse republican candidate who might be less incompetent
For white folk. It has always been pretty shitty and slowly getting better for most everyone else. I don't think Bernie has internalized that. I think that's partially why my uncle that wanted Bernie voted for Trump. I call Bernie a complainer, because he won't be able to do what he says he will, but he revs people up with simple solutions to huge problems. For that reason, I think he's guilty of pandering too. Obama got the ACA passed. Far from perfect, but that's why it passed. Trump couldn't undo it with both the House and Senate. Trump also can't get his wall with both. Obama was also a black man in the Oval Office. That was a huge win for our country. I think we'd all be better off if we didn't let candidates talk like the Presidency was this huge lever. It's both a ceremonial job and a grind.This is as bad as its been since the thirties.
Sorry. I didn’t mean to gloss over something you have going on. If that’s the case, I really am sorry. Politically, I just don’t think the Bern has the best approach. Obama got rid of preexisting conditions. I think it talkes that kind of president to make something like that happen, as messed up as the progress looks. My uncle did vote for Bernie, then Trump. That’s fucked up, but I also think it says something about their appeal to dissatisfaction, and how easily they make solutions seem. I think we are being taught to expect too much from presidents. Once again, I’m sorry if the medical issue is personal for you atm. I’m not terribly astute in that sense.
The ACA got kneecapped by the Supreme Court when they struck down the Medicare expansion. It's basically useless as it stands for poor people like me in conservative states. I'm a leftist but I'm more social democrat than socialist. We're at a crossroads like we were in the thirties where shit was so bad that fascism and socialism rose together. The New Deal was a salve that preserved capitalism and we need another one like it because the alternative is fascism. M4A is a part of that. I'm personally more for a public option.
Maybe Warren. Maybe not Beto... Haven't been following very closely though
I like Warren the best but I'll probably go with Bernie. He's actually polling in double digits. Beto seems too busy auditioning for a remake of Mr Smith Goes to Washington or something to stand for anything unless it's on a table. The whole thing is a shit show. Three seventeen year olds in a trenchcoat and Mike Gravel mask are saying more to me than 90% of these jokers. I'll vote for whoever wins the nomination just to end the current national embarrassment we're going through but there's like no difference between say Beto O'Rourke and Corey Booker or Pete Buttigieg
I don't know a lot about Mayor Pete (other than his identity politics) and this article completely turned me off from him: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/all-about-pete He really doesn't belong in the same breath as Andrew Yang or Bernie Sanders.
I like Yang too. I don't know enough about Pete yet. My family all like him a lot though.
Been hearing about a Harris / Pete dream ticket. Don't know much about Harris yet, but I like Pete. People are saying he lacks policy, but at this point he understands it's the winning of hearts and minds that counts. I do like the idea of a 15 person supreme court, 10 elected and 5 selected by unanimous vote by the other 10.