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Old 04-20-2016, 06:33 AM   #1
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Bernie for Vice President?
He needs to be back in the Senate holding their feet to the fire. We're looking at a failed Presidency and I wonder about a failed state eventually. We become assholes when we talk about politics, almost by design. We're going to have to all start engaging with our government. Find a policy area you care about and work the system.

Otherwise

It's beginning to look a lot like Russia,
everywhere you go.
Take a look in the Wally World, selling throw away crap to plebes
With Chinese pants and toxic treats aglow.

It's beginning to look a lot like Russia,
prisons from coast to coast,
lighting up criminals like toast, street cameras to record your every flaw
The thieving oligarchs large and in charge.

messy but you get the point
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Old 04-20-2016, 01:48 PM   #2
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He needs to be back in the Senate holding their feet to the fire.
What if any reasonable proposal in congress would result in gridlock, anyway? Could someone making an attempt to nudge American politics a few degrees back from the far-right leaning course it's been on since the 1980s possibly make more of a contribution to society by having a national spotlight to change the dialogue?

Doesn't Bernie need to hold the Executive Branch's feet to the fire, so that all of the left-leaning concessions Clinton has made as campaign promises (and we all know the value of those) might actually continue forward as ideas that are being talked about, past the primary season?
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Old 04-20-2016, 08:24 PM   #3
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Maybe so but people tend to disappear in the Vice Presidency. I don't suspect HRC will be listening to her Vice President in any case.
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Old 04-20-2016, 08:29 PM   #4
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Yes, but he'd have access to TV cameras, and maybe, just maybe he could maintain people's interest, that he's been able to generate for the lifelong issues he's been advocating. Man, it's all wishful thinking at this point.
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Old 04-20-2016, 08:33 PM   #5
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I hear ya.
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Old 04-22-2016, 10:17 AM   #6
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Doesn't Bernie need to hold the Executive Branch's feet to the fire, so that ...
Bernie is playing people as fools using the same techniques that Trump and Cruz are using. He promoted soundbytes that appeal to all. But view the details. That means each proposal must take pages of text to understand. What he says is not only impossible. In many cases, it would even destroy jobs and enrich the rich.

Most of us do not grasp or demand details (always demand numbers). Most of us only hear soundbytes that also proved cigarette improve health and that Saddam has WMDs to threaten America. In both cases, only a minority (the educated) knew otherwise.
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