The Bern Identity
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The Bern is meeting with Jesse Jackson in Chicago. The Bern has to try to get something in IL, unless it turns into an 80 20 win for Hilary. I am hearing very encouraging news re: supporting the Bern, but I am no pollster.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/loca...h-Rev-Jesse-Jackson-in-Chicago-371812282.html
This friggin disgusts me.
Democratic Party
Illinois is expected to have 182 delegates at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Of this total, 156 will be "pledged delegates."
https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_election_in_Illinois,_2016
Meanwhile, Trump protesters are massive:
Trump winning IL could make him unstoppable:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features...souri-they-could-help-make-trump-unstoppable/
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/loca...h-Rev-Jesse-Jackson-in-Chicago-371812282.html
This friggin disgusts me.
Democratic Party
Illinois is expected to have 182 delegates at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Of this total, 156 will be "pledged delegates."
https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_election_in_Illinois,_2016
Meanwhile, Trump protesters are massive:
Trump winning IL could make him unstoppable:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features...souri-they-could-help-make-trump-unstoppable/
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I drove by UIC, and it is a mob scene. I have no idea what is in Trumps head holding this at UIC. What do you think is going to happen in L.A.? It will be ten times worse. You reap what you sow.
I don't know how Trump wins a general election now. The Chicago Moment is a defining event on this timeline. He better put Carson to work to bring people to their senses.
I don't know how Trump wins a general election now. The Chicago Moment is a defining event on this timeline. He better put Carson to work to bring people to their senses.
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On a positive note!!!!
In victory for Sanders, Ohio judge says 17-year-olds can vote in primary
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/11/politics/sanders-ohio-lawsuit/index.html
In victory for Sanders, Ohio judge says 17-year-olds can vote in primary
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/11/politics/sanders-ohio-lawsuit/index.html
That's a cute article. But Kasparov misleads because he lived through communism, not democratic socialism. For his sake, let's hope he learns the difference.
Garry Kasparov: Hey, Bernie, Don’t Lecture Me About Socialism. I Lived Through It.
Why my rant against the Democratic candidate’s prescription for America went viral.
2016 seems like a strange time to be arguing the merits of socialism in an American presidential campaign. But it’s also strange for the prospective leaders of the free world to be talking about the KKK and their appendages, so clearly this year is not like any other. While the latter topics are, thankfully, beyond my purview, I have a great deal of interest in socialism.
Last week I expressed some of these thoughts on Facebook after hearing a clip of “democratic socialist” candidate Senator Bernie Sanders on Super Tuesday. This was already a rarity, considering how little time the networks have left after their blanket coverage of Donald Trump’s latest outrages. My post on the nature of socialism was 113 words long, a quick response to critics of a cartoon I had posted of Bernie Sanders wearing a baseball cap reading “Make America Greece Again.”
My goal was to remind people that Americans talking about socialism in the 21st century was a luxury paid for by the successes of capitalism in the 20th. And that while inequality is a huge problem, the best way to increase everyone’s share of pie is to make the pie bigger, not to dismantle the bakery. Much to my surprise, my little rant went viral, as the saying goes. Instead of the usual few hundred Facebook shares, this paragraph quickly reached tens of thousands. By the next morning it had reached several million people, more than any of the day’s political posts by the leading candidates. A week later and it has over 3,000 comments, 57,000 shares, and a 9.3 million reach that is in the category usually reserved for photos of pop stars and kitten videos.
My conclusion that “the idea that the solution [to inequality] is more government, more regulation, more debt, and less risk is dangerously absurd” apparently had great resonance, and I think I know why. There is a growing consensus that America has deep troubles, and no one can agree on solutions. Everyone agrees that Washington should change, and some want the government to do much more while others want it to do much less. Many of the traditional economic numbers say that America is doing fine, and yet polls say that Americans—especially Sanders supporters—are angry about the present and fearful about the future.
I often talk about the need to restore a vision of America as a positive force in the world, a force for liberty and peace. The essential complement to this is having big positive dreams at home as well, of restoring America’s belief in ambition and risk, of innovation and exploration, of free markets and free people. America transformed the 20th century in its image with its unparalleled success. American technology created the modern world while American culture infused it and American values inspired it.
In recent decades that storyline has flipped. The tireless work ethic and spirit of risk-taking and sacrifice have slowly eroded. This complacency was accelerated by the end of the Cold War and it has proved very difficult to overcome in the absence of an existential enemy to compete with. The booming innovation engine of job creation has fallen behind the accelerating pace of technology that replaces workers. The result has been slower growth, stagnant wages, and the steady shift of wealth from labor to capital. In such situations many people turn to the government for help and the siren song of socialism grows louder.
I respect and even like Bernie Sanders. He’s a charismatic speaker and a passionate believer in his cause. He believes deeply in what he is saying, which is more than what can be said about nearly every other 2016 candidate, or about politicians in general. I say this while disagreeing vehemently with nearly everything he says about policy. The “revolution” rhetoric of Senator Sanders has struck a chord with many Americans, especially the young voters who are realizing that their own lives are unlikely to match the opportunities and wealth of their parents and grandparents. They are being left behind in a rapidly changing world. It is a helpless, hopeless feeling.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...lism-i-lived-through-it.html?via=twitter_page
Positive? People shouldn't be able to vote until they are 25 and grown up. These teeny bopper PC correct voters don't even have a clue as to what, why or who they are voting for.
The Bern said, " nobody who works 40 hours a week should live in poverty". I agree Bern-dog. It might help if the government stopped taking so much of their/our money and giving it to people who don't work at all, and have chosen unemployment as a career. Perhaps we make some effort to curb the baby making welfare machines the ghetto bitches have become. Maybe, just maybe we make the welfare recipients work for that check. Plenty of garbage to pick up along the highway. Just an idea.
There is more than one approach to this problem. I like Sander's solution. He wants to make working worthwhile. That should reduce the number not working at all.