Bob, no as I said in my earlier message I am not passionate about Biden or any
other capitalist politician. However, I honestly believe that Sanders will
throw the lection to Trump by alienating a good deal of middle America purple
voters. Those are the working class voters who have not prospered under Trump.
However these are also the sons and daughters of Reagan era big government
hating socialism bashing baby boomers. A moderate can easily pull them away
from Trump. However, a progressive candidate will push these fence sitters back
into the Trump swamp. Folks who live day to day, pay-check to pay-check, one
illness away from being homeless really fear the false spectre of being even
more burdened by having to pay for big government's social programs that they
feel only benefit "those other" people. Heck if I thought a progressive had any
chance of taking the white house I would run myself. As far as HRC, although
not my ideal candidate by any stretch of the imagination, lets not forget that
she got 3m more votes than the rooster. I think Bernie would have fared about
as well as Jill Stein did, given their similar platforms. The climate for
electing a progressive president is only present when the public believes that
the government is doing great things for , any creating good jobs with good
unionsthem. That means lots of investment in tangible items they can see like
roads, good schools, an airline industry that runs on time, and gasp in some
cases even sports arenas. I know that last example probably made some of you
want to vomit and there was a time in my life where I would have done the same.
But then I was arguing once that NYC shouldn't pay for a new Yankee Stadium and
someone asked me where the Bronx would be without Yankee stadium. OK, I see the
point if there is genuine economic advantages to the local community. But alas
what we really are talking about is putting band-aids on the bloody, failed
experiment known as capitalism that should be allowed to die a natural death.
Frank
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Bob Hachey
Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2020 10:57 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Who's zooming who?
Hi Frank,
This article does make good points.
But how do you feel about Biden, really? Do you like his hawkish foreign policy
stance? Do you like that he's so damned easy on corporations that they flock to
Delaware as a good place to set up headquareters? Do you like how he has
treated women and minorities?
Yes, I'll vote for him, but I'm putting up with what I see as a considerable
amount of baggage by doing so.
AS for 2016, HRC is a sniveling, whiny, power-hungry, unpatriotic bitch who
should have done the right thing and not run after being soundly beaten in the
2008 primaries by a relative newcomer. Frankmly, I believe that HRC is a pretty
big reason why Trump is now president.
Bob Hachey
