If Hillary appointed a Wall St. exec to her cabinet, they would find some way to excuse it.

[Bonobo]

That's the difference.

[enid602]

1. maduro

Yu won't find too many capitalists in the Maduro Government either.

[Bonobo]

2. You think that all capitalists are Wall Street execs? Fucking odd.

Sanders is a capitalist, I am a capitalist.

That doesn't require serving the Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, Fannie Maes that drove our economy into the pits and rewarding them with further riches.

[Cheese Sandwich]

4. I don't know if Sanders would be comfortable with that label

He's not even comfortable being called a liberal, so I think capitalist would be out. He says democratic socialist.

[Bonobo]

5. Not mutually exclusive in the least. nt

[Cheese Sandwich]

8. Depends what the words mean

There is not consensus on the meanings of these words

[Bonobo]

9. Do you think Sanders is opposed to capitalism?

I don't.

[Cheese Sandwich]

11. His policies are not trying to get rid of capitalism

His policy proposals are progressive, left liberal, Keynesian, maybe social democratic.

I don't know what he thinks privately about getting rid of capitalism. Some of his early statements were much more socialist and sort of anti-capitalist. And he's got a picture of Eugene Debs hanging in his office. I guess he is a reformist democratic socialist. I assume he has access to a dictionary and encyclopedia and has looked up the meanings of these words and uses them correctly.

[delrem]

12. Sanders is certainly opposed to a world determined by unregulated capitalism.

Cheese is right that Sanders would rather be called a democratic socialist than a capitalist.
To understand what "democratic socialist" means one has to think about what kind of policy changes are required to set up universal health care, and so on, so they work smoothly from the start. As Sanders says, we have to look at how socialist structures, like universal health care, an universal education system, and so on, have worked in other countries that have tried them.

Because the US is a backward nation in these regards. It is not a world leader in matters of social and civil rights and well-being.

It's good at war, though.

[jkbRN]

13. True,

All he thinks is that capitalism should be regulated so it can work to benefit everyone.

[AppalachianAmerican]

3. There are plenty of socialists on Wall Street.

Socializing losses and privatizing gains is their game.

[Bonobo]

7. Well said! nt

[treestar]

6. Since this Wall Street Exec is imaginary

We cannot know.

[Bonobo]

10. Well given that her Wall St. ties are forgiven in every OTHER way, it seems a pretty

reasonable supposition.

[treestar]

19. only is you've developed blinders

no surprise in the bubble some people are creating for themselves.

[uponit7771]

14. The same for Sanders

[Motown_Johnny]

16. It is far less likely to happen with Sanders.

[uponit7771]

25. Less like doesn't = zero chance... and if it does... Same For Sanders

[Fawke Em]

27. Actually, he's stated he would NOT appoint anyone from Wall

Street to his cabinet.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251623191

[Motown_Johnny]

28. Agreed. I can't guarantee there won't be one.

If I said something like that I would be lying.


It is very unlikely though, especially when compared to probability that Hillary will do exactly that.

[Motown_Johnny]

15. If Hillary appointed Satan himself to her cabinet,

they would find some way to excuse it.


(not that I believe in supernatural entities, I don't)

[Bonobo]

17. Undoubtedly the excuse would be something to do with "reaching across the isle". nt

[treestar]

20. no chance to find out

but BS would undoubtedly have at least one pick that would be a "betrayal."

[Motown_Johnny]

23. What do you base that on?

Other than your own imagination of course.

[DanTex]

18. Why would it need to be "excused"? Is everyone who works in finance automatically evil?

There are people who work on Wall Street and are very liberal. Tom Steyer, George Soros, etc.

[treestar]

21. +1

Yeah we are to accept the utter evil nature of anyone who ever managed anything or made a buck.

[Bonobo]

22. Of course, the tag "evil" is the straw man here.

No, not evil, merely the fact that their interests usually do not align with the interests of the average person naturally.

[DanTex]

24. So you're saying that anyone who works in finance is corrupt and would place their own interests

ahead of the interests of the nation. Odd.

But Bernie would never do anything like that. He's pure as the driven snow!

[NCTraveler]

26. Correct.

I don't think having worked for Wall Street should outright disqualify someone from a cabinet position.