“Let me shoot straight with you, and this might not be popular in parts of the Democratic Party,” said union president, Harold Schaitberger. “We can’t have a nominee that’s too far left. It’s just that simple. A candidate that has high-minded ideals, maybe honorable ideas, but little chance of winning.”

He's saying too far left has little chance of winning, but he makes clear that those ideas aren't wacky...they are honorable.

ALL the ideas by all the candidates are honorable. So we will nominate someone with honorable ideas.

We have to defeat trump. There is a very good chance that trump will win if we pick a weak or unsafe choice. There are posters who believe that we can nominate the most liberal/socialist nominee as possible and that candidate will easily win because everyone hates trump. It is their position that this is a historic opportunity to nominate someone would otherwise not be electable.

From Larry Sabato https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-economy-got-nixon-reagan-and-bush-reelected-it-could-do-it-for-trump-too/2019/04/23/b8920d34-65e6-11e9-a1b6-b29b90efa879_story.html?utm_term=.a35b315730d2

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they were Democrats, not Democratic Socialists:

https://www.apnews.com/1d5789a50f854a5ab897292015343810

https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/433381-warren-says-its-just-wrong-to-call-her-a-socialist

I wouldn't have thought Harris is associated with the word. I didn't know about Warren.

‘But capitalism without rules is theft’

I don’t believe any in the house are. AOC actually comes very close, possibly crossing the line. While I don’t agree with how she takes some of her shots I think she is probably one of the best spokespersons we have seen at that level when it comes to socializing more parts of our economy.

Joe is establishing his safe bona fides with boomers like me. Problem is we're the past, not the future.

Old people vote

A system that has not produced any growth in real wages since the early ‘70s needs fundamental change.

I refuse to believe that a candidate that has big ideals can't win. We wouldn't have social security and Medicare without big ideas. Having a good messenger is the important thing. If you start big, sometimes when you have to compromise the compromise won't bring us so far to the right. I will certainly root and vote for Biden if he is our nominee, however.

As for socialism, the Repukes now label anything that helps those who aren't rich as socialist.

Don’t you think you have a good perspective of the history you have lived. The torch is passed as younger generations age and vote in higher percentages. At our age we have enough time behind us to understand that the youthful rising is little more than smaller percentages of loud and energetic people. That’s not a knock. It’s a proven trend.

You are the present.

him.. we are looking to the future for our Children, Grandchildren, and their Children's Children.

for our Children and Grandchildren and their children's Children.

We Want the Psycho Gone so we can have a future for them.

Joe Biden is quite capable of doing that.

1. As you said, turfing the turd out
2. A better result in 2022 than the disasters of 1994 and 2010

I'm right there with you, crazytown!

2022 like 2018.. only more so!

Ruben Bolling recently ran a cartoon titled “Socialist Invaders From The Future”. In it Bernie, Elizabeth Warren, And AOC time travel back to the 50s. They try to scare a young 50s couple with talk of an 80% top tax rate.....puzzled the couple says you lowered it from the 91% it is now? They then say they will introduce a humane and expanded system for refugees to app,y for asylum here. The 50s Couple says we have that now. And so on. AOC , Bernie, And Warren give up trying to scare them.

Eisenhower was a republican who instituted those top tax rates.

My how things and perceptions have changed.

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socialism as that fits his demonization skills. He has no capacity to discuss our actual government as it exists so he needs this simpleton approach of accusations and manipulations. He doesn’t want Biden explaining the real world to him.