Democratic Primaries
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According to Levitz, Sanders has already persuaded many 2020 Democratic hopefuls to stop worrying and learn to love social democracy therefore, he concludes, Sanders must now be dispensable. Its like saying that since Fort Knox has never suffered a break-in, there must be no need for all those armed guards.
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However, a startling indication of how much Sanders has already changed US politics was recently reported by Martin Wattenberg, a political scientist at the University of California Irvine. Every four years since 1956, the American National Election Studies (ANES) has asked voters to describe, in their own words, what they like or dislike about the two parties. It was on the basis of these interviews that the political scientist Philip Converse reached his famous verdict in 1964 that ordinary Americans are, broadly speaking, innocent of ideology that they dont think in ideological terms.
Political scientists have generally accepted that judgment ever since, along with a corollary notion about American public opinion, advanced in 1967 by the politics scholars Lloyd Free and Hadley Cantril: that Americans tend, on the whole, to be operationally liberal (favoring specific liberal policies like Social Security and Medicare) but philosophically conservative (rejecting broad expressions of left-wing ideas).
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In the long run, Democrats suffer from not forthrightly making ideological arguments, Grossmann argues; partially as a result, [the] public maintains conservative predispositions.
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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/09/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-eric-levitz-2020-presidential-campaign-democratic-nomination
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
LincolnRossiter
(560 posts)Can't say Bernie's folks aren't committed. I respect that.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
left-of-center2012
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
aidbo
(2,328 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)"publish misleading reports and omit reporting of information that may damage liberal causes.
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George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
betsuni
(25,484 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Uncle Joe
(58,355 posts)(snip)
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George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Uncle Joe
(58,355 posts)to primary or Presidential election coverage is opinion.
Why should Jacobin's opinions be treated differently?
The question in one's mind should be are the opinions put forward by pundits or authors based on sound reasoning and/or supported by historical data.
I believe the author makes valid points, which are supported by political science studies and no one on this thread to point have been able to rebut.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy.
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Uncle Joe
(58,355 posts)snip)
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primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Uncle Joe
(58,355 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Otto Lidenbrock
(581 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)everyone is secretly a leftist argument.
A time honored classic.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
beastie boy
(9,323 posts)The last time around, 12% of Bernie supporters voted for Trump.
And it mattered. A lot.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
dlk
(11,561 posts)Like it or not, this hurts him.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)That's the back of the t-shirt.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BlueMississippi
(776 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
PhoenixDem
(581 posts)in Vermont as a senator.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ritapria
(1,812 posts)Following the lead of Bernard ?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Uncle Joe
(58,355 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
George II
(67,782 posts)....it's like saying "Sanders had breakfast at 7AM, Biden had breakfast at 8AM, following Sanders' lead."
Seems like everything anyone does or says is "following Sanders' lead."
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Uncle Joe
(58,355 posts)is that your point?
"Seems like everything anyone does or says is "following Sanders' lead."
Why do you believe it seems that way?
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George II
(67,782 posts)....for decades, if Biden does, "following Sanders' lead"?
I can turn that around into a question, too.
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Uncle Joe
(58,355 posts)are two different things.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
msongs
(67,405 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)What constantly come up, and constantly get shot down, are trading taxes. A nickel, or a penny, per trade, or share, would tax a lot of the program trading-- which really has no economic reason to exist.
BTW, from the Wikipedia entry on "wealth taxes":
In a 2011 study, the London School of Economics examined wealth taxes that were being considered by the Labour party in the United Kingdom between 1974 and 1976 but were ultimately abandoned. The findings of the study revealed that the British evaluated similar programs in other countries and determined that the Spanish wealth tax may have contributed to a banking crisis and the French wealth tax had been undergoing review by its government for being unpopular and overly complex. Furthermore, there were serious internal debates at the time between moderate Socialists and more leftist Marxist politicians as to the degree of public ownership of means of production. As efforts progressed, concerns were developing over the practicality and implementation of wealth taxes as well as worry that they would undermine confidence in the British economy. Eventually plans were dropped. Former British Chancellor Denis Healey concluded that attempting to implement wealth taxes was a mistake, "We had committed ourselves to a Wealth Tax: but in five years I found it impossible to draft one which would yield enough revenue to be worth the administrative cost and political hassle." The conclusion of the study stated that there were lingering questions, such as the impacts on personal saving and small business investment, consequences of capital flight, complexity of implementation, and ability to raise predicted revenues that must be adequately addressed before further consideration of wealth taxes.[35]In 2004, a study by the Institut de l'enterprise investigated why several European countries were eliminating wealth taxes and made the following observations: 1. Wealth taxes contributed to capital drain, promoting the flight of capital as well as discouraging investors from coming in. 2. Wealth taxes had high management cost and relatively low returns. 3. Wealth taxes distorted resource allocation, particularly involving certain exemptions and unequal valuation of assets. In its summary, the institute found that the "wealth taxes were not as equitable as they appeared".[34]
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Uncle Joe
(58,355 posts)Definition. Han is derived from the Chinese character 恨, which means resentment, hatred, or regret. According to the Translation Journal, "Han is frequently translated as sorrow, spite, rancor, regret, resentment or grief, among many other attempts to explain a concept that has no English equivalent."
Hanja: 恨
Hangul: 한
Han (cultural) - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org wiki Han_(cultural)
Joe
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
dgauss
(882 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden