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Originally Posted by SEC_Chick
Hi all! Just checking to see if you all are enjoying the 2020 Democratic race, that now is a reprisal of the 2016 GOP primary. This time, the role of John Kasich is being played by Amy Klobuchar.
It is inevitable that Bernie will receive the largest plurality of the delegates. So he will get the nomination, or Bernie Bros will riot if he does not.
Nominating Bernie seems like a bet the House move. As in literally. This is the only possible scenario for the GOP taking back the House. I think there is a chance Bernie will win, but on the whole the odds favor a second Trump term. I know the Democrats don't care about nominating the kind of person a Republican could vote for, but Bernie is almost the candidate to make me say "screw it" and vote Trump. Almost.
We are a decadent and unserious people and it seems we are getting the candidates we deserve.
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We moderates in the top 20% who have enjoyed a nice run and either ignored the rot among the lower 80% (Rs) or offered the lower 80% buy-offs (Ds) but offered no policies which would give these people some work and standing which would grant them a dignified existence are the decadent. That includes me and you and everyone here, most notably country club republicans and Clinton democrats.
And now we get what we deserve, what people who kick the can receive: Populism.
Stein’s Law. What cannot go on, will not. And a special gold star for the first unlearned comment that this is all one party’s fault.
ETA: We’ve also overseen a brutal commoditization of all aspects of life and a financialization of the economy that has destroyed labor’s bargaining power and rendered significant portions of the lower 80% debt serfs. (See Piketty on rentier predation of the lower classes.) 2008 was the last straw. In its wake we propped asset holders and gave everyone else scraps. The ensuing inequality gifted us Trump and Bernie.
And you’re going to fix this mess with what? A stillborn Bloomberg candidacy? A senile Joe Biden?
Get behind Bernie. He’s the only horse here.
