2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumCongrats to the best qualified and most inspirational candidate, Hillary Clinton!!
Next stop the White House!
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)thebeautifulstruggle
(95 posts)congrats on another corporatist selling America down the road
Broward
(1,976 posts)rickford66
(5,524 posts)Now we settle for moving right to compromise, because what we want is "too hard" !
Corporate666
(587 posts)most people don't want what "you" (collective) want. They want smart policies that work, not pie-in-the-sky economy-wrecking ideas that have zero chance of working even if they could be implemented.
rickford66
(5,524 posts)You just voted for a moderate Republican. I voted for an FDR Democrat.
Corporate666
(587 posts)FDR took over when the country was coming out of the depression. The recent recession was NOTHING like the depression. And FDR had majorities in both houses of congress, and the national debt was dramatically lower (as a %) than it is now. And FDR's programs were targeted at solving the problems the people were facing due to the depression.
Bernie is just a panderer. He is promising free stuff for everyone and then lying about whose going to pay for it and how much it will cost. Bernie's spending isn't about fixing the economy after a depression. It's just about pushing America towards outright socialism through massive tax hikes on everyone - including the middle class.
People don't want that. Which is why he lost the nomination.
rickford66
(5,524 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,989 posts)Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)rickford66
(5,524 posts)That's a laugh. The corporations won this one and the future was sold to the highest bidder.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)BlueStater
(7,596 posts)How very sad to go from Barack Obama to this power-hungry '90s throwback.
riversedge
(70,242 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)k8conant
(3,030 posts)by the way so-called Democrats vote.