shortylickens
No Lifer
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Just saw in the news Bernie has stopped all his facebook ads, and rumors increase he's dropping out.
I'm generally fine with Biden, but the problem with raising the social security age is that the life expectancy increases are *not* uniform across the population. Lower income workers simply don't live as long as ones that are well off. There are really good arguments to make for starting with removing the contribution cap.SS age sometimes needs to be adjusted as life expectancy increases. Is this the pitiful anthill people are willing to die on?
For me, the problem with voting for the Green party is that there will never be 3 viable parties in the country, so it's really a symbolic vote, and that's fine, but I think it's the worst of 3 potential symbolic votes, the other two being writing in Sanders, and leaving the ballot blank for president and voting for down ballot races.
What we saw in 2016 is that everyone just added Clinton's vote totals to the Green Party vote totals and concluded that if Stein hadn't "split the vote" Clinton would have won. As hilarious as it is to watch that, they really are dumb enough to believe it, so they're not learning the right lesson. It's a similar issue with writing in Sanders, in that case the assumption is that anyone writing in Sanders is a fanatic who would never vote for anyone else anyway, and that's not really true, I'd vote for any progressive. Another problem with that is that Sanders is widely expected to endorse Biden, and at that point he's dead to me as a candidate, would never vote for him again if he betrayed his platform like that.
So that leaves the last option - not voting for president and just voting down ballot. I think this is the right way to send a message. Neither candidate is acceptable, the end. Your symbolic vote gets aggregated with principled voters of other political stripes as well, it's not like the Gary Johnson / Jill Stein thing last time.
Oh you think it cant get worse than it is now? With Trump another 4 years? Another 1-2 SC justice picks? Further eroding at the democratic barriers, separation of powers, IA's? Russification of your country etc. etc? Also, what has Ukraine done to you? They had your back as buffer to Russia, now you turn your back? Like you did with the Kurds in Syria? Over what? A hurt feeling? Shame.
He's going to suspend his campaign and recommend that states with upcoming primaries cancel in-person voting or cancel them outright with regards to coronavirus. The virus is forcing his hand.Just saw in the news Bernie has stopped all his facebook ads, and rumors increase he's dropping out.
It's hard for me to imagine Bernie running again in 2024. Hopefully a younger progressive will pick up the torch.
Been thinking a lot about that, but, that's for another discussion.With the looming Trump-McConnell recession, Trump's policies will cut carbon emissions by more than Obama's policies ever did.
Why quit when you're running against a guy with dementia? You hold out until the bitter end hoping the guy does something that the voters can't ignore. Something that will force Biden to drop out due to health reasons and in this case, actual health reasons.
I don't know who is doing Bernie's ad buys, but if he's doing it as he's done in the past, he's already made a shit-ton off of it and there is much more to be made. Typically, 20% of the ad budget goes to whomever places the ads. In the past that has been Bernie's wife. If you ever wondered why so many people are running for the Presidency, now you know. Remember the huge field in the last election on the Republican side? This kind of bullshit is not party specific.
And it's all perfectly legal. It's a good thing to be the person making the rules.
