Yes, also she was a Republican until 1996. That puts her well into her adult professional years- until her mid 40s.

That means this intelligent grown ass woman lived through the Contra Wars, the Gulf War, the Iraqi sanctions, the arming/funding salafists in Afghanistan and Eastern Europe, the invasions of Grenada and…

You are nuts. Biden has voted for all the wars, all weapons deals with the Saudis, and was totally fine with expansion of the drone war and its apparatus, and totally fucked up attempts at regime change in Libya and Syria. But you think he’d give an answer like this? You are living under a rock.

Warren has made…

The problem is he can’t do that because she will not budge on imperialism. She really thinks that American exceptionalism (our economy is based upon the dollar remaining the world’s hegemonic currency and this requires military expansion around the world) can continue endlessly. So she is only focused on how to more…

Bernie’s pool of potential voters are a) progressive Democrats (yes the sort that would like Warren but don’t have a global view of things, don’t understand imperialism) and b) the disaffected working class who do not vote because they don’t think either party offer them anything.

Well to be fair, the majority of the people on the left- the rising stars of the Dem party - did come in from Bernie’s movement. This is something I don’t think a lot of people who are not in that movement really understand. Bernie did a bottom up primary so he left an organizing infrastructure in his stead, with a…

That’s a lovely story. Thanks.

I think the future of the Dem party looks OK- but we are looking at 2020 at least before any of those people are in any real positions of power. I’d say there are about a dozen Dems in Congress right now who I’m excited about and if the party looked like them, I’d be proud to be a Democrat.

But this time around, they…

I’m sure that’s what he meant. He has long since been the man to chase the center, no matter how far right the center is. This is the problem with having no ideology beyond supporting the wealthy donor class.

Honestly at this point, I don’t know what he would bring to us that a mainstream Republican wouldn’t. I hate…

The only thing I can hope for is that it really is true that polling skews towards people who answer their landlines- which means we are talking about elderly people. And this is the explanation for him being in first place right now.

Otherwise, if he’s really the new leader of the Dem party, I say let’s put a nail in…

Also to be clear, since some people in this comment section are claiming that Bernie supporters stayed home, like the overwhelming majority of people on the left who hated Clinton, I went out and voted for her in the general despite her being terrible since of course any Dem is better than any Rep and it actually…

I didn’t mean to imply that Libya was a guise for Syria - if my words came across that way, I’m sorry. That would be a really dumb thing to say.

What I’m saying is that Clinton has fucked up everything she ever touched, including in Libya- losing the weapons cache is just an example of that. People like to call her…

Ah that makes sense. Of course. Loads of these people are probably running for VP.

A tell-all book from someone no one cares about isn’t going to sell for sure.

Seriously I wonder about that too. I wonder if it’s just a way to not work for a year. You get enough donors and you travel about and make some speeches and live on others’ dime for a while. What else do you do if you fail your senate…

most things, but all of them if it’s taxpayer funded

wow I didn’t hear about this at all. Thanks.

When the Simpsons originally aired, it was at the height of the MSG ‘Chinese Restaurant Syndrome’. It’s not real science of course which is part of the joke.

There was a big pool of contenders in 2016, but I think the actual story of that election had little to do with that fact. What happened in 2016 was a tide change in which the establishment of both parties, donor based and media supported, were kicked to the curb. The field was blown open.

I don’t think anyone can…

You have to wonder what these people are actually running for. I mean, I know there are idiots in the world, and maybe this guy is one of them. But assuming he’s not totally stupid, he knows he has no chance in hell of even winning the nom, much less the presidency, so what is his goal REALLY? Like if you could look…

Yes, because honestly it’s not just about the Republicans. Clinton and Obama also had terrible immigration policies as well as trade plans (NAFTA). And yes you are correct that no capitalists actually want secure borders. I’ve been talking about this a lot lately. It’s the core contradiction of our current (created…

Yes this makes sense. Sometimes I wonder about exactly how the specifics of this or that happen with this administration, and almost always it’s more important to look at the big picture and assume the stupidest possible most thoughtless process to blunder into it.