For such a long while the GOP has been crazily talking getting rid of taxes and promoting

[applegrove]

libertarian social policies and policy has not gone that far, but has been influenced by the fully flushed out GOP extreme. Compromise, when it has happened, has happened somewhere in the middle. But the middle has moved as those GOP nuts went extreme and pushed the bounds of acceptable discussion. Now we have Bernie Sanders promoting a 90% tax rate on the richest americans. It is the Liberals time to fully flush out programs on the left (many of which I agree with, just not 90% tax) and put progressive utopias into the MSM and conscience of America. Hopefully that will mean the American middle moves left. Go Bernie. Go Warren. Go Hillary. Dream away! Talk about all manner of liberal/progressive policy no matter how far they go. Fully flush out the kind of world we want to live in. Guaranteed income that will pay for college? I've wanted that for 30 years. Dream it, talk about it, live it and it may come true.

[djean111]

1. Here's a problem - there are, I firmly believe, Tea Party strongholds who will honestly believe

that Bernie means 90% of ALL income. I don't think they understand the tax system.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

2. I don't think they understand the tax system

I don't think they understand how to tie their own shoes, much less any sort of "grownup" stuff.