Bernie is the solution to everything. His highlighting the

[Prosper]

value of human life with Medicare for All addresses the 4,500 people that die each month because it’s too expensive to save them. How can human rights be respected by letting thousands of people suffer more and die earlier every month. Start giving people hope and reasons to live instead of showing them they are expendable.

[Squinch]

1. Don't you hate the way the trump cult acts as if trump is some kind of deity. It's ridiculous, and

kind of nauseating, don't you think?

[dem4decades]

3. Well done.

[Skittles]

4. I see what you did there

[Sloumeau]

9. Nice! :)

[Cha]

11. I see what you did there, Squinch!

Perfect!

[highplainsdem]

15. Nailed it, Squinch!

[betsuni]

17. Heh.

[Eliot Rosewater]

19. I assumed the OP title was sarcasm...wow, that it isnt.

[Wawannabe]

43. As did I

It’s gettin DEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!

[TexasTowelie]

29. Good one.

[Me.]

36. Walking On Water & All That

[mcar]

47. Like he's Mother Theresa, Gandhi, or MLK or something

[ehrnst]

69. .....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Kind of like how Trump said he can fix everything?

Bernie is not the solution to everything. Nobody is. Proclaiming the infallibility of Bernie is a bit too close to personality-cultishness - something we need a whole lot less of. It's bad enough that the GOP do that shit; we sure shouldn't do it too.

[Skittles]

5. NO ONE is the "solution to everything"

that is cult-speak

[highplainsdem]

16. +1,000,000

[emmaverybo]

52. Nailed.

[Hoyt]

6. Those people can be saved with a Public Option and substantial subsidies too. Could be enacted

much easier than MFA.

I am for covering everyone as quickly as possible. I think Public Option is the fastest way to achieve that goal. And it's likely the fastest way to Medicare-for-All, except for the fools who just have to have private insurance.

[msongs]

7. I alone can fix it. hmmm sounds familiar nt

[Sloumeau]

8. He's the solution to *everything*?

Do you think that perhaps you might be laying it on a bit too thick?

[relayerbob]

10. OMFG

Thanks for inspiring me to toss another 20-spot into the pot - oh wait, it wasn't Sanders', though

[JoeOtterbein]

12. President Sanders and Vice President Warren will do a great job!

It will be sooooo fun beating Trump in a historic landslide!!!!!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. That's not good enough unless Bernie is the solution to *everything.*

[JoeOtterbein]

18. Yep, cause beating Trump is everything!!!!

I can't wait! Yippee!

[UniteFightBack]

21. What's befuddling is that you actually think that ticket would win. nt

[JoeOtterbein]

28. What is clear is that Bernie and Liz will beat Trump like a...

...dumb dum he is!

[Thekaspervote]

25. It will be great when sanders goes home to VT!!!

[TidalWave46]

68. Why would Warren want that spot.

Seems rather sexist to claim she will be under Sanders when she is a far more accomplished woman. When will people stop ignoring the accomplishments of women and placing them under less accomplished men?

[Wawannabe]

77. I don't want any of that glue/gas that you are sniffing

Whoa! The hallucinations are stunning!

[Cha]

13. I'll go further.. BS is Not the "solution" to anything.

Link to tweet

[UniteFightBack]

22. CASE CLOSED !!! nt

[Cha]

31. lol.. and bloody Correct!

[redstateblues]

53. Boom. Starting to sound cultish

[Happyhippychick]

20. Lawd have mercy

[myohmy2]

23. "Bernie is the solution to everything."

...Bernie's solutions are the solution to most everything, for certain...

...people mocking us can have a good mock but it won't change the facts,

"...,500 people that die each month because it’s too expensive to save them."


...people are willing to fight and die for the freedoms the Bill of Rights and Constitution provides in one breath, but slam, curse and piss-on MFA in the other...

...how the hell do you exercise your Constitutional Freedoms and Rights when you're fuckin' dead?

...the first and foremost Freedom is the Right to Live!

...MFA=FREEDOM...

[Skittles]

24. no one is disputing that healthcare in America sucks

they are disputing the assertion that one man is the only solution

[myohmy2]

33. I think...

...I understood the intent of the OP...

...don't you find it strange that it's usually the Biden First Responders that are the most vocal and threatened by anything Bernie?

...why?

...I think it's because Bernie resonates and Biden doesn't...

...yep...

[Skittles]

34. because Biden is the front runner

and this kind of stuff goes on during the primaries

and Bernie does not resonate with everyone

[samnsara]

42. not 'threatened' by anything bernie..just tired of it

[Thekaspervote]

27. sanders... big ideas. No plan to make them work

[emmaverybo]

55. In a nutshell!

[liberal N proud]

26. Everything?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

32. Yes! In fact, if you are in the vicinity of Bernie

you have to be really careful if you're standing behind him because you could be blinded by the sun shining out of his butt.

[Wawannabe]

44. ...

[liberal N proud]

75. Roflmao

[Hav]

30. This kind of rhetoric is getting dangerous

The immediate connection one gets may be "Only I can fix it" but it is more problematic than just simple slogans.
The solution to everything is the kind of thing you imagine hearing before a cult does something really bad to themselves or others.

Further, it is important to realize that no person has a monopoly on good ideas, that you have to work together and cooperate to achieve anything and that there may be several paths to reach a goal. Some with better outcomes, some more achievable than others.

I know you mean well but this is the kind of rhetoric that leads to some people becoming unapproachable for any kind of reasoning who would otherwise be on our side. We saw effects of that in 2016.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

35. Yes, it is. I get enthusiastically supporting a candidate,

but when you start thinking they're the solution to everything, you're getting sucked into a cult of personality in which you can't imagine any faults or errors on the part of that person - and that way lies disaster. That way lies Trumpism and all kinds of hell. The Democrats have a great slate of candidates but every last one of them has personal faults, areas of inexperience and incidents of mistakes. These are human beings and not gods. Bernie is by no means the solution to everything. Maybe even not anything, since he has to get all of his proposals through Congress. And good luck with that.

[relayerbob]

38. In fact ...

According to this: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/browse?text=sanders#sponsor=400357&current_status[]=28&sort=relevance&congress=__ALL__&text=__ALL__

He's actually only ever gotten three things passed and signed off ... two of which are naming Post Offices

Hmmm

[greatauntoftriplets]

37. Why hasn't he put out the fires in Australia yet?

[Wawannabe]

45. ...

[NanceGreggs]

39. Someone remind me ...

... where I've heard this bullshit before.

[Wawannabe]

46. Right on!

Geez!

[samnsara]

40. wow thats a lot of power you give one human being...

...spoiler alert.....NO ONE has that much power....NOR should they be given that much power.

[Wawannabe]

41. Wow. I thought this would be a sarcasm post

But it’s not! Will he also need to be addressed as supreme leader? The solution to everything? Dog sent instead of God sent? You gotta be kidding me?! OMG!

[greatauntoftriplets]

48. When's the coronation?

Or will it be a canonization? And when can we start seeing miracles so that know that the OP's claims are true?

[emmaverybo]

60. 😂 hahahahahaha

[Wawannabe]

49. Fuck all the perfect people!

https://m.

[Recursion]

50. His ideas are brittle and don't reflect the reality of how laws are made

His solution for health care? One big idea, despite the fact that replacing private insurance with a single Medicare pool is both massively unpopular and has no actual way of passing any electable Congress. Despite the fact that existing systems (Medicaid, private insurance, the VA, etc.) are widely liked by the people using them. Despite the fact that financing reform would cause a huge number of hospitals and practices to have to consolidate, and would not solve the issue of having a shortage of GPs everywhere except the richest cities.

Similarly his idea on financial reforms is simply "break up the banks", despite the fact that he can never answer what that actually means or what he would like the post-break-up financial sector to actually look like. Does he want forced equity splits like the Bell break-up? High enough capital requirements to discourage growth past a certain size? A fire sale of classes of assets (and would this mean he thinks a less diversified financial sector is somehow safer)? No word on what this "policy" is actually trying to achieve other than meeting the mandate of a politically popular bumper sticker, "break up the banks".

Bernie Sanders is a good person, but he's single-mindedly intent on winning an election, specifically the 1972 Presidential election. That's not the race we need to win this year.

[Gothmog]

51. sanders knows that his plan cannot be adopted

sanders is hiding the cost of his plan because he knows that he cannot pay for it or get it adopted

Link to tweet

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

54. So true!! Bernie shines the light of truth to show people the way out of this mess. Once people hear

Bernie's message and feel his spirit, they come to LOVE him!!


Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join the revolution!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

74. So now Bernie is Jesus? "The light of truth?"

If he's all that, why isn't he turning water into wine and raising the dead?

I've head Bernie's message repeatedly over the last four years (he's only got one) and I have not come to love him. I love his cult members even less.

[NYMinute]

56. bwaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[Gothmog]

57. Powerful,the Affordable care act saves lives and will continue to save lives,

Link to tweet

[revmclaren]

58. This what happens

when one goes from a supporter to a fan to a disciple in one quantum leap.

WOW!!!


ONLY!!! 2020 and beyond.

[betsuni]

59. Requiring Americans to vote and making it easy to do so is the solution to everything.

Republicans are the party "showing them they are expendable."

[Prosper]

62. What Bernie proposes should have been implemented 40 or

more years ago. The Republicans worked to let almost half the wealth of the country be owned: “ Nation's top 1 percent now have greater wealth than the bottom 90 percent
1/2 the wealth of the country belongs from www.seattletimes.com
Dec 8, 2017 · The wealthiest 1 percent of American households own 40 percent of the country’s wealth, according to a new paper by “

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Bernie will continue to surge because the forgotten and left behind will not be placated with right of center incrementalism.

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Millions of Americans are denied care every year. Few of them have megaphones to intimidate large companies into quick action. And so they suffer and spend their precious hours fighting with profit-seeking, opaque bureaucracies

https://www.thenation.com/article/the-health-care-industry-is-sick/


The only resemblance to cult submission is believing that millions of people that can’t afford or are denied health insurance is status quo incrementalism on the way to solutions.

The very fact that a Democratic Socialist is a prominent politicians should sound the alarm that people are being abused. Foreign countries did not steal US jobs. US financiers invested US money to take advantage of inhuman foreign wages.

[handmade34]

66. ....

lots wrong with our society... Bernie is not the answer

I've known Bernie for 40 years… Bernie is not the answer

[ehrnst]

76. It was tried in 1971. Democrats walked away from the table because

"single payer or nothing!"

Nixon was offering something that was to the left of the ACA.

Ted Kennedy said it was one of the big regrets of his political career - if he had stayed at the table, instead of walking away, we might have something much closer to what Canada has now.

We shouldn't repeat the mistakes of the past....

Asked about his greatest regret as a legislator, Ted Kennedy would usually cite his refusal to cut a deal with Richard Nixon on health care.

It was back in 1971 and President Nixon was concerned that he would once again have to face a Kennedy in the next year's election -- in this case a Kennedy with a proposal to extend health care to all Americans. Feeling the need to offer an alternative, Nixon asked Congress to require for the first time that all companies provide a health plan for their employees, with federal subsidies for low-income workers. Nixon was particularly intrigued by a new idea called health maintenance organizations, which held the promise of providing high-quality care at lower prices by relying on salaried physicians to manage and coordinate patient care.

At first, Kennedy rejected Nixon's proposal as nothing more than a bonanza for the insurance industry that would create a two-class system of health care in America. But after Nixon won reelection, Kennedy began a series of secret negotiations with the White House that almost led to a public agreement. In the end, Nixon backed out after receiving pressure from small-business owners and the American Medical Association. And Kennedy himself decided to back off after receiving heavy pressure from labor leaders, who urged him to hold out for a single-payer system once Democrats recaptured the White House in the wake of the Watergate scandal.

..............................

The simple lesson from this story -- and certainly the one Kennedy himself drew -- is that when it comes to historic breakthroughs in social policy, make the best deal you can get, leaving it to subsequent generations to perfect. That's what happened with Medicare and Medicaid, and there is no reason to think it wouldn't happen again with universal coverage and reform of the health insurance market.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/27/AR2009082703919.html

[Prosper]

63. Bernie Sanders has just pulled even with Joe Biden in Iowa and is beating him in New Hampshire, givi

[jcmaine72]

64. +1

[ehrnst]

70. That TOTALLY means he has cinched the nomination!

https://time.com/4189537/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-poll-iowa/

https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/04/politics/new-hampshire-poll-bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton/index.html

[RandySF]

65. I spent 18 years of my life hearing the same thing about someone else

I'm not putting that kind of zeal into any human being.

[TidalWave46]

67. "Bernie is the solution to everything."

[ehrnst]

71. No he's not.

He didn't invent single payer, nor was he the first to do so.

Politicians promising people something that won't happen doesn't help anyone.

[Happy Hoosier]

72. LOL..... Dude....

Reread that and assess how that comes off.

[Wawannabe]

78. ...

[Dream Girl]

81. How can I put thi? I think maybe there are some how you say "cultural difference"

Just sayin 😄

[Laura PourMeADrink]

73. Off topic...but Larry David funny last night (talks about playing Bernie on SNL)

[SidDithers]

79. Bernie Sanders is the kindest, bravest, warmest...

most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life


Sid

[Dream Girl]

80. Hmmm where are you from anyway?

Your post is veeeeeryi interesting...

[zackymilly]

82. Is he a final solution?