2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFor starters, the Democrats running for President should blast out these messages:
I am running to save Social Security
I am running to save Medicare
I am running to save our programs for poor Americans
I am running to save the right to vote for everyone
I am running save womens rights
I am running to save the civil rights of all people
Because the republicans want to eliminate them.
Period.
onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)I'm going to vote for you. Period!
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)other issues like weed, abortion etc. can take care of themselves
Joe Magarac
(297 posts)... because you want so bad for it to be true?
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)DhhD
(4,695 posts)Joe Magarac
(297 posts)Stated positions are just what they say to get elected.
Yes Republicans are no damn good. That's not a point of disagreement.
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)For instance, I know Bernie's plan to "save Social Security" involves raising the income cap because he has specifically stated that plan on several occasions now.
While, to my knowledge, Hillary hasn't given any "specifics" on how she would "save Social Security" (feel free to correct me if I am wrong), I can conjecture that she would likely lean more towards the chained CPI and means testing approach as embraced by her contemporary, President Obama.
From my vantage point, only one of those approaches, the Sanders approach, truly deserves the mantle of running to "save Social Security", the other...not so much.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)The down ticket is the responsibility of We the People: The New 50 State Strategy.
quadrature
(2,049 posts)how does that change anything?
Fearless
(18,421 posts)Fearless
(18,421 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)"Save social security" means, to conservatives, cut benefits. Same with Medicare, Medicaid, and poverty programs.
We want to grow these things, period
FSogol
(45,491 posts)Not only is he on your side on all those issues, he already did something about them while Gov of Maryland. For example:
O'Malley didn't just talk about about raising taxes on the rich; he did it:
Early in his term, OMalley made a substantial revenue increase the centerpiece of his economic agenda.
These taxes were progressive and unpopular among the wealthy. As were these:
Some tax increases were regressive and unpopular, such as tax increases on gasoline, cigarettes, and sales. Yet even these helped to maintain services throughout the state:
O'Malley has also called for an increase in capital gains taxes:
In addition, he has recently argued in favor of raising the capital gains tax rate, which would make the tax system significantly more fair considering that capital gains receive a preferential rate compared to wages and primarily are received by wealthier Americans. This move could potentially position him to the left of Hillary Clinton, who has been mum on raising the capital gains tax rate so far this election and has expressed skepticism of increasing the rate in the past.
On fighting for women and families:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1281794
On voting rights:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1281732
Civil rights for all
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1281695