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Sanders campaign wracked by dissension
Elizabeth Warren just won an endorsement that’s making Bernie Sanders’s world really mad
According to polls, Warren needs a little more to fully absorb Sanders.
Warren Sapping Bernie's Life Energy
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @04:24AM (10 children)
The economy isn't booming. The fact that the stock market is up mostly helps the mega-rich. Same for the GDP. The corporate media (Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, etc.) uses these metrics to determine the health of the economy because they only care about the rich, since they're part of that circle.
Most new jobs pay very little, and are often part-time; almost half the country can't afford a $400 emergency, and far fewer than that can afford a $1,000 emergency; many people are struggling to pay their car payments; jobs continue to be outsourced, including ones that Trump bragged about saving; and half the country makes $30,000 a year or less. The economy isn't booming for the average person, and the only people who think it is have fallen for corporate media propaganda. And yes, many of these things were problems under Obama, who was a corporatist, though not as much as Trump is.
If the Democrats don't run Sanders, they are doomed. Trump's fake populism is much more likely to be defeated if you run a real populist like Bernie Sanders. Warren is more corporatist than Bernie, voted for military budget increases, is more cozy with the establishment, and occasionally repeats establishment talking points. She's okay, but she's no Bernie.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday September 18 2019, @07:28AM (3 children)
Son, if you think Bernie is speaking from where The People come from, you have never met The People.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @04:25PM
It is ok to be a dumbass but please don't embarass yourself in front of everybody.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 20 2019, @08:52AM (1 child)
And yet many of his policies are very popular. Medicare For All, ending the wars, legalizing marijuana, ending private prisons, ending awful trade deals, and so on.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday September 20 2019, @07:28PM
You need to get out of your echo chamber if you believe that.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @09:39AM (4 children)
People used to have full-time jobs before Obama. Remember that? Most people didn't need to do 2 or 3 jobs with 2 or 3 times as much commuting.
Today, if you work enough hours, your employer must provide health coverage. LOL. No employer is dumb enough to pay $14,800 extra (average employer cost of health coverage in 2019) for an employee that would only make $15,000 per year anyway. That would be paying double.
So the problem of part-time jobs was wholly caused by Obama. Employers prefer the simplicity of full-time workers, but they aren't about to pay double.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @11:40AM
All the more reason for single-payer healthcare.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @02:34PM (2 children)
Not so much.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/192356/number-of-full-time-employees-in-the-usa-since-1990/ [statista.com]
Facts are so inconvenient, aren't they?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @08:35PM
The US population is not the same as it was in 1990.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 18 2019, @09:03PM
A graph showing the number of part-time employees would have nearly the same ups and downs.
A better graph would show a ratio of the two.
BTW, that is a sleazy graph, with the Y axis not starting from zero.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday September 18 2019, @03:16PM
The stock market isn't even up anymore. Take a look at any index you like, they've all been flat for a couple years now.