What does it mean to be a “good” president? Warming up to some of the worst people on earth? Dragging the country into endless wars? Imprisoning millions? If that is the standard, then yes, she would have been magnificent.
She would have been a extremely competent administrator and would have ensured that the executive branch was fully staffed.
This all makes perfect sense.
And the fucking centrists who don’t know any better but to anchor themselves to a metaphorical Titanic, all the while demanding we give in to their sinking ship, will bitch and moan about it.
I don’t see anyone advocating for full-blown socialism here. It seems like the majority recognize the shortcomings of capitalism and want to implement a more stringent socialized safety net to mitigate the negative effects. In fact the vast majority of countries that DSA types “ references as a shining light of…
Excellent rebuttle. You just keep on ignoring that what constitutes centrist gets pushed further and further to the right every year. I wonder why that keeps happening, eh Einstein?
Hmm. Interesting. What exactly constitutes centrist in a country where the far right has pushed the Overton window well into facism territory (along with a complicit media and neo-liberal, third way Democratic Party)?
What is a socialist idea and what is a centrist idea?
For what it’s worth, I don’t think he should run in 2020. His platform should, but he shouldn’t. For one, he’s old as shit, and for two, he’s not THAT great of a politician. He was just an essential voice for American leftism: a clarion call. Give me Elizabeth Warren. Is she a leftist/socialist? No, but her politics…
No socialist thinks single-payer is some final solution. I was responding to your claim that “single-payer is bullshit.” I disagree that the same problems you identify are (1) actually the problems (rationed care and wait times aren’t the issue; incomplete coverage and high cost, and the resulting need for most people…
just a qucik clarification....Capitalism, Socialism, Communism are not forms of governments. these are economic systems and all can work within the representative democracy.
Placing people on an unequal economic playing field is what drives injustice. If PoC and middle-class whites were equal in base, then we’d see more asshole PoC stepping on other PoC to get ahead.
Get a load of the data entry expert over here.
It’s not systemic racism or institutional sexism. Capitalism is the root of all evil, and the fact that people of color and women tend to suffer more than their white male counterparts is just a coincidence.
Yes, it’s a personality cult. I, for one, am instantly drawn to shambling old white men with terrible posture and a textbook case of Voice Immodulation Disorder.
“And she resigned because of the leaked emails and the optics they caused.”
If DWS was fired for incompetency, why was she immediately hired by the Hillary campaign?
So Debbie and Donna were fired for nothing?
How are either of those incorrect?