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If they were candidates, they would completely divest themselves of all party affiliation, and run as candidates for President.
And instead of wasting their time trying to convince democrat and republican voters to change their votes or anything, they have to chase after the 120-150 million people that don't vote. Both are already popular amongst the disenfranchised, just ignore the republicans and democrats. They're outnumbered! Put that on the bumper sticker and there's a chance. Won't hurt to do Monty Python sketches on the impeachment theater and show pictures of the Chinese military build up either. (Whoops! There goes Korea)
A Bernie/Tulsi ticket is a perfectly acceptable compromise. We have a nice healthy VP for insurance, ready to take command when he kicks... The numbers are there if people take their own initiative to put them on the ballot, and just show up and vote. Nobody has to say anything to the press or anything.. Mum's the word until Voting Day. No ads are necessary. Instead of making speeches and begging for money, the candidates will answer questions when they travel around. If everybody takes their own initiative, the effort is completely trivial, and instantaneous, kinda, there are forms to fill out. But if everybody gets up off the Group W bench and sings just one time, in three part harmony... Ya gotta sing loud
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 06 2019, @10:07PM
Bernie is, despite claiming to be a Democratic Socialist, actually a social democrat. You know, like Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, where they are still capitalist countries, but maintain decent social safety nets. Having a single payer healthcare system - which would actually be cheaper than our current price-gouging rapacious privatized system according to every study done on the matter - paid for by tax dollars wouldn't transform the US into Venezuela anymore than paying for the military, police, fire departments, etc. using tax dollars have. It's the same for his other policies, most of which you probably don't know about or understand because you simply don't actually care about policy specifics.
"Venezuela" is not an argument. You say "Venezuela," and I'll say, "Norway, Sweden, and Denmark."