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@Stockholmer  Good to see you again.  Biden should have been locked up along with Shillary.  Not a popular position at this site.

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If Bernie is out, IMO that means that Warren or Biden or whoever else the DNC really wants is IN.   I doubt that Bernie would be out during the primaries, unless the DNC has some really masterful rigging and cheating in place.  If Bernie is out for some reason before the Florida primary, I will not bother voting unless there is so…[Read more]

@stockholmer With all due respect, expat Englishman in Sweden, you sound like an old, comfortable boomer on SV saying the term “socialist” is a political killer. It’s not anymore in this country. You are living in the past. This is a relatively recent change, but it has already happened.

The political killer word for 2020 will be “corrupt,” not…[Read more]

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You say:

While “socialism” is a system based around replacing private ownership of the means of production with social ownership, which generally means having the workers own and operate them instead — either through cooperatives or the state — Bernie hasn’t shown much of an interest in using the government to promote this change.[Read more]

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“…..County governments in New Jersey and Texas, where Warren lived in the 1970s and ’80s, could not locate Warren’s voter registration records, and the senator herself is circumspect about her political past. But records from the time Warren spent living in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts make clear that she was a registered Rep…[Read more]

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And Warren could have said that, instead of making an inane and sort of condescending  joke.  Warren seems most comfortable ranting at people in committee meetings, but not so good at being questioned herself.  In fact, it looks to me like Warren does not expect to be questioned at all, and only has asperity and jokes to counter qu…[Read more]

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We can no longer base our support solely on bills co-signed or authored or whatever,  or on campaign blather in speeches or on websites.    Co-sponsoring bills can now be callously cosmetic – “See???!!  I co-sponsored one of Bernie’s bills!!!!!  That means, Bernie supporters, I am Just Like Bernie!!!! ”    Co-sponsoring a bill that y…[Read more]

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Yes, our healthcare system has to be one of the worst in the world and that isn’t hyperbole. It’s as bad as it can get.

It really sucks that Tulsi jumped the shark on M4A. She could still be Bernie’s VP though. :) Or at least a member of his cabinet.

@stockholmer The public option is a sick joke. It won’t work. All that will do is drive sicker and older people to Medicare, and conservatives and the HMOs will then help bankrupt it and call for its dismantlement because it’s “too expensive.” The only thing that will work in this country is either a single payer system or flat-out socialized…[Read more]

@stockholmer Would you like to see that? I mean, since Bernie’s just a sheepdog and all.

@stockholmer !

Don’t hold back, now…

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already aware of it & have been for some time.  cheerio back to you.

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I think that you pronouncing that this site “is done as a viable forum” that seems a bit arrogant.   That is what people are reacting to.  If it is not viable for you any more, fine, cool, whatever.  But obviously others of us will stick with it.  We like it here.  No authoritarian crap, or at least, none worth taking serio…[Read more]

Oh no, the Finnish version of “left” barely exists in this country. Social Democrats are, at most, slightly left-of-center there, methinks. Let’s ask someone who would know far better than you or I: @stockholmer , would you be kind enough to give us a brief synopsis of Finnish politics, being that you are right next door and all?

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Well, we call ourselves Jack Pine Radicals for a reason…hell, some of us here might be Marxists.  You seem to have a personal grudge with Marxist leftists, as far as I can tell – this pretty accurately sums up what Marxist ideology is:

“Answer Wiki. Karl Marx believed in collective production of commodities and societal control…[Read more]

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Well, hold up a sec now – what makes you believe that that site/person is actually a full stop Marxist/DSA type?  Someone saying they are such does not make it so.

I am not terribly familiar with the overall DSA – and I have my own occasional criticism of Sanders and others – but overall, from all I have gathered, they are…[Read more]

Maybe we should call @Stockholmer

You are correct @Stockholmer. I just assumed Buttigieg was fawning over Bibi while he was fawning over Israel in general. I will try to be more precise in the future.

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That’s a pretty solid recommendation there.

I don’t know him well enough but I was not impressed with him during the run-up to voting for the next DNC Chair which Tom Perez won.  Obviously I was hoping that Sam Ronan could at least go further, sadly he has been a disappointment in more ways than one.

Soooo, I’ll check him out.

No matter what happens, to borrow an expression from our own @stockholmer , Theresa May is fooked.