02-21-2020, 08:47 PM
(02-21-2020, 07:22 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: The crazy thing is that what Bernie and Warren are proposing isn't even radical when you compare it to America's history.
In our Grandparents' age, people got pensions at virtually any non-minimum wage job, very affordable healthcare, college that resulted in no debt and housing was relatively affordable, at least as I understand it. At least affordable enough that having 6 children and a stay at home mother was not only feasible but close to the norm.
Van Jones said it best when he said Bernie Supporters generally aren't socialists, they just "Grandparent Envy."
https://www.mediaite.com/election-2020/van-jones-young-sanders-voters-less-about-socialism-more-about-grandparent-envy-over-medicare-affordable-college/
Definitely not wrong about the term "socialist revolution" doing a lot of harm. It definitely gives folks pause around here. I mean, he's not far off from FDR, but that's not the message getting through.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
