Politics Can Pete Buttigieg beat Trump?

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  1. noknobs

    noknobs Well-Known Member

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    You're exactly wrong. SO MANY PEOPLE do not like Trump and are so very eager to vote against him if there's a candidate who isn't so radical in their proposed policies as Sanders is. Your comment is the one I seem to hear from liberals who live in a bubble, but bad news, the vast majority of the voters exist outside that bubble. Moderation has the best chance against Trump, and even more important, moderation is what the country needs at the moment.
     
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    noknobs Well-Known Member

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    That's not what I want in a president, and clearly, that's not what the masses would want either.
     
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    Definitely disagree. But that's cool
     
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    IMO there are "pros and cons" to just about every system, and they can point out their successes and we can point out their failures too if we really want too, it's really not that hard. UK is overall not at all more advanced than the US in many aspects. The Royals are worth like 88B, (we're supposed to hate those 1%er's). I am just not a democratic socialist I think economically it's a bad plan that appeals to disenfranchised people (for the most part). There is obviously a whole lot wrong with the US government and crony capitalism as well. It's not a fear of Bernie like most of his supporters that I know like to tell me. It is just a disagreement with his plan to go about getting to his goals. I think his plans are flimsy at best and because of the way that government is run in the US if he is president and the DNC tie their wagon's to him as the GOP has with Trump, my guess is we'll get the worst of democratic socialism and crony capitalism in a package just right to screw us over.

    I do have plenty of concerns long-term with big government and government controlling everything which is actually his platform no matter how much people say it's not. High taxation of the rich will not pay for all the things that Bernie wants to do, it will be high taxation for all of us.
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    I think of Bernie more along the line of a European Socialist.
     
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    Bernie is as much a Euro Socialist as the state of Rhode Island is an island.

    Politicans use faulty labels to misdirect the uninformed away from the truth.

    You might say Euro socialism was tried by many countries, and many of them did not like it. So they gave the ring back.
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Which European countries gave up on Euro Socialism? Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France, The United Kingdom? Oh, you mean Luxembourg.
     
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    You claim to be an independent but you post like a FOX news contributor.
     
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    AKA "Social Democrat"
     
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    That's not what he calls himself.
     
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    And without those donors would Pete get heard?
    On the other side of the fence is Bernie Sanders, a long standing United States Senator with a ton of name recognizability.

    I contend that your post does not say it all.
     
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    I haven't had cable for 10 years and avoid all human contact because I despise humanity, so I have never heard his name pronounced. I pronounce it Butt-gag. Do I have it right?
     
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    Nah its Booty Judge
     
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    So I guess that answers the OP's question.
     
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