I've been registered as a Dem for 26 years...

[JDPriestly]

44. The only people who think Bernie only has one issue are the people who have never listened

to his speeches.

I suppose that Hillary's paid representatives avoid listening to Bernie's speeches lest they become Bernie supporters and lose their jobs.

Outside of those few, I cannot imagine anyone who listens to Bernie's speeches and somehow thinks he is a one-issue candidate.

Justice reform, reform of police departments, ending excessive surveillance of the communications of ordinary citizens, environmental protection, education reform, paid family leave, raising the minimum wage, negotiating peace before resorting to war, and on and on. Bernie is no one-issue candidate.

That meme is just ridiculous.

Personally, I don't think that Bernie's policy proposals are nearly as "socialist" as were FDRs.

But then a lot of people don't know all the stuff that FDR put in place, like the Works Progress Administration for starts.

For your information:

The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration; WPA) was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects,[1] including the construction of public buildings and roads. In a much smaller but more famous project, Federal Project Number One, the WPA employed musicians, artists, writers, actors and directors in large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects.[1]

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Headed by Harry Hopkins, the WPA provided jobs and income to the unemployed during the Great Depression in the United States. At its peak in 1938, it provided paid jobs for three million unemployed men and women, as well as youth in a separate division, the National Youth Administration. Between 1935 and 1943, when the agency was disbanded, the WPA employed 8.5 million people.[3] Most people who needed a job were eligible for employment in some capacity.[4] Hourly wages were typically set to the prevailing wages in each area.[5] 0 Full employment, which was reached in 1942 and emerged as a long-term national goal around 1944, was not the goal of the WPA; rather, it tried to provide one paid job for all families in which the breadwinner suffered long-term unemployment.[6]:64, 184
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The WPA was a national program that operated its own projects in cooperation with state and local governments, which provided 10–30% of the costs. Usually the local sponsor provided land and often trucks and supplies, with the WPA responsible for wages (and for the salaries of supervisors, who were not on relief). WPA sometimes took over state and local relief programs that had originated in the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) or Federal Emergency Relief Administration programs.[6]:63

It was liquidated on June 30, 1943, as a result of low unemployment due to the worker shortage of World War II. The WPA had provided millions of Americans with jobs for eight years.[6] 1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration

FDR's legacy. Here in Los Angeles, I often see buildings and bridges that state in cement or on a plaque that they were built by the FDR administration.

And under Eisenhower, we built much of our freeway system.

Americans do not realize that when our economy was coming out of the Great Depression and we were developing our modern society, we had the most of what some would call "socialism."

Economic policy needs to be flexible. When we have full employment and the private sector is paying people well, we don't need government programs of that sort. Right now, especially in the African-American community, we need them.

After WWII when the "boys" came home, we had the GI bill. VA loans paid for housing and "goosed" the housing industry. That was a sort of "socialist" government program. The VA bill paid for the education of a generation of former soldiers. We made enormous progress as poor kids who previously could not afford education were given a chance to attend colleges and universities.

I'm for a flexibility about economic programs. I favor Bernie's viewpoint. In fact, I think his view on the economy has evolved a great deal over the years. His work in Burlington, Vermont and the affection the Vermont voters have for him are the proof that his balance between government programs and private initiatives works.

Bernie is more flexible on economic issues in my view than is Hillary. She is rigid on many issues, the economy being one of them.