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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI will not vote for a billionaire
Bloomberg is a representative of the one percent. I will not vote for him.RichardRay
(2,611 posts)What are the options?
TheBlackAdder
(28,183 posts).
Wait! He's a billionaire?
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BootinUp
(47,141 posts)For me to consider it as well. I just havent ruled it out.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)rogue emissary
(3,148 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,369 posts)>$8.4 million gets you in.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Im OK with that, BTW.
BeyondGeography
(39,369 posts)evertonfc
(1,713 posts)Your hate for billionaires is noted. Mike is a good guy. Spent millions in VA. He might not be your candidate but an angle compared to Trump. Will you vote for millionaires? Our top contenders are one.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)Dem4Life1102
(3,974 posts)to protect Bush from embarrassment. He instituted the racist stop & frisk policy. Then subverted the will of the people to buy himself a third term.
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)I have had enough of both for many lifetimes.
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)I would consider it among the other factors for or against them.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)No thanks.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)As a matter of fact Ill never vote for a businessman who claims being one is what makes him qualified.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)are equal.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)world wide wally
(21,740 posts)Silent3
(15,204 posts)And we'd better all start thinking that way. Fuck this "my vote is my special act of self-expression" shit.
And no, I'm not "telling you", as if I think I can command you, what you have to do. (God, I get sick of that totally-missing-the-point "you can't tell me how to vote!" reaction.)
I am saying, flat out, however, what the smartest and least selfish way to vote is.
Quixote1818
(28,929 posts)decent human being and an epic president.
crickets
(25,962 posts)emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)his anti-Semitic immigration policy meant death for hundreds of thousands, and he signed off on
Japanese internment camps. Enlightened labor laws did not apply to agriculture, with so many POC workers, and his policies reflected his personal views.
Originally found at Truthout
Author Timothy Scott
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, The 2016 presidential election cycle and its three prominent candidates are being held up as representing polarizing interests that are emblematic of the political, economic and cultural tensions of our time. Yet, a look back at the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt reveals some familiar tones and policy positions that capture those of Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
As president, Roosevelt is widely celebrated by American progressives for fathering the New Deal, which encompassed financial regulations, union rights and a number of social programs. While FDRs extramarital affairs are well known, what is less known is his racist and anti-Semitic worldview and white supremacist loyalties, which contributed to the suffering and death of millions of the most vulnerable people.
https://narrativedisruptions.wordpress.com/disrupting-the-myth-of-franklin-d-roosevelt-in-the-age-of-trump-sanders-and-clinton/