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@Amethyst_Crystal
“Populism of love”
You haven’t heard Bernie talking about the establishment have you, lol.
“Populism of love”
You haven’t heard Bernie talking about the establishment have you, lol.
I just hope that Sanders’ populism of love ends up stronger than Trump’s populism of hate.
And that people aren’t so empty and hollow they will vote corporate overlord bloomberg just cause of fucking commercials.
@Dustcan
At least all the publicity surrounding Sanders now, whether positive or negative towards him and his campaign, is helping spread his message and popularity. The ‘Streisand effect’ (aka ‘lets talk about this bad thing/person you didnt know about, so now you are curious and will go learn more’) is very real and politics, and neither politicians or the media seem to get it, despite their best efforts.
So uh, quick question but what’s the deal with Centrist supporting people.This guy’s depressed because he sees a candidate that wants to make promises and try to fulfill them? I genuinely do not understand people like this..? I mean, how pathetic does a person have to be when they gather at an establishment candidate’s rally and they hold hands pretty much say, “Better things are impossible.”Look at how much we’ve progressed and gotten and this guy here is just… it literally boggles my mind how stupid this is…
I have no idea why you’re angry at me. I’m not the one making mathematically, economically, and politically impossible promises of infinite free everything for everybody forever in order to buy the votes of people who can’t do basic arithmetic.
“Vote for me and I’ll give you free stuff” has always been a lie, anyway. The government doesn’t have any free stuff to give away. Every cent the government has was extorted at the point of a bayonet from someone who works for a living. It’s a funny thing. We used to put politicians in jail when they were caught trying to buy votes. But since the 1930s it’s been a political platform.
Oh, and almost 90% of the US government budget is already either interest on the national debt or welfare checks in various forms—Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, AFDC, WIC. Despite being at war, we’re spending quite a bit less, proportionally, on “the military-industrial complex” than we did in the 1950s and 60s.
That having been said, if you zeroed out the DoD’s budget completely, disbanded the US military, laid everyone off, and turned the Pentagon into a Denny’s, it wouldn’t even balance the budget. That would take either raising taxes to a degree that would shut the economy down completely or doing away with Social Security and Medicare. One or the other of these things is going to have to happen at some point, because the Chinese aren’t going to continue to loan us trillions of dollars at a time so that we can have a universal old-age pension, not forever, anyway. Or we could just fire up the printing presses and print money with nothing to back it but promises from politicians, which worked out so well in the Weimar Republic.
@Amethyst_Crystal
I have no idea why you’re angry at me.
I think there are some particularly stupid Cold War leftover projects that have been bottomless money pits for decades–see also, the F35 strike fighter, a 1980s design that still isn’t ready for service after 35 years, which supposedly exists to replace the 1960s-era F111 in the role of high-speed low-level deep tactical nuclear strike missions against Soviet military logistical centers in Warsaw Pact nations and western portions of the USSR. This mission no longer exists.
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