Gotta love all these Nu Dems losing their shit over the word 'taxes'

[whatchamacallit]

TAAAAXESSSS!!1! TAX AND SPEND LIBERAL!!1!

Reminds me of something...

[Ed Suspicious]

1. Crazy, isn't it?

[bvf]

10. To quote merrily in a distant thread,

I'll retire to Bedlam.

(Yes, I know...)

[liberal_at_heart]

2. I know, right? When the word taxes becomes a bad word in the Democratic Party you know

it is not the same Democratic Party anymore. I mean is there really anything left of what used to be the Democratic platform?

[lob1]

28. We can thank the DLC/3rd Way/Koch Bros for that.

If they were honest, the important thing Bernie said is SAVINGS, not TAXES.

[Populist_Prole]

30. It's surreal isn't it?

I mean, we all know the whole status-quo third-way/DLC MO is to trend right, but at least talk a good game of being some faux bullshit populist during the campaign, then go full right after an office is won. Now they're going balls-out right during a campaign!

I wonder now if they realize they've already blown it and lost, and now just want to appear to at least go down swinging. Sort of their way of saying "Help us once more: we'll take care of you this time...really. No? You don't believe us? Well the hell with you...we'll bury you!".

Quite the ringing endorsement for their "base".

[Broward]

3. The tax bogeyman. We have to stop with the Republican framing on everything.

Just another reason to support Bernie.

[Autumn]

4. "Free stuff" !!!

[draa]

5. Our transformation is almost complete.

We're almost there...

[bvf]

11. Gah! I'll bet those tusks were *not* easy to move... n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. We know which end is the ass.

[draa]

16. I'm glad someone noticed.

Took long enough.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. I'm old enough to remember when democrats didn't spew republican shit.

[draa]

18. Me too.

It gets tiring having to defend being a Democrat around a bunch of people who don't seem to know the definition of the word. And it's no wonder people are leaving this party in droves. Why wouldn't they with this shit to put up with.

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. Agreed.

Taxes actually do need to be increased, and if we get single-payer out of that, so much the better. Infrastructure, too. This stuff needs to be paid for with tax increases. Enough nonsense.

People attacking Bernie for that need to check themselves.

[artislife]

19. Yes!

Remember the bridge in Mpls....we have thousands countrywide that are in need of replacing but too many local governments not wanting to repair.

[senz]

36. It is incredibly sad. Hard to believe this is America.

[artislife]

37. Very moving video...

thanks for posting.

[Matariki]

7. BIG GOVERNMENT!??!!

YES OR NO????!!!!

[Odin2005]

9. They are trashing Mondale, too.

As a Minnesotan I'm rather offended by that.

[AgingAmerican]

12. Reaganomics

101

[whatchamacallit]

39. Yup

[MrMickeysMom]

13. Here's how we've been hypnotized on taxes...

[delrem]

14. Political parties can be bought out.

I saw it recently in BC, Canada, when the provincial Liberal party got bought out lock stock and barrel. It almost made me applaud, even though I was explicitly among the targeted "to be screwed".
It can only happen if the bought out party is extremely weak.

Once bought out, I don't see any possible redemption. You can't buy it back.

What can you say when already back in Oct. 45 members of the Democratic progressive caucus rushed out the door to endorse Hillary Clinton, and only one had the guts to back Sanders? That's so weak that it's barely perceptible. Clearly rife with trojans and other weak characters.

Big money isn't chickenshit. When big money buys a politician and buys a few think tanks to provide the MSM 24/7/52 fodder, and buys the MSM which in turn buys a few fake "progressive" opinionators/bloviators to round out a pretense, they cover every bet, and they do it by both instinct and training. They don't spare a nickel in vetting and buying the best.

[draa]

20. It's the Neoliberals circling the wagons around their chosen candidate.

Those people aren't Liberals in any sense of the word. They support the same failed policies as the GOP. They don't even pretend anymore and for proof simply look at Clinton's stance on Medicare for All and college tuition. Those are party ideals and things Democrats would normally support. Especially the MfA. They've now abandoned those ideas in favor of doing nothing. Or worse yet, expanding on a failed system.

In 5 years since the ACA was signed into law they haven't even attempted to improve it. Not once. And the excuse we get is "because Republicans." Since when did Republicans stop Democrats from trying? Since the neoliberals arrived that's when. We get nothing now and they expect people to vote for her anyway. smh

[draa]

22. Lol, yes it is.

[Betty Karlson]

23. Reminds me of the left wing of the old GOP.

You know, the wing that left the GOP to the crazies because they were trying to build a big tent against 'taxes'?

[hfojvt]

24. just FYI

at some point you may need to figure out how to win over people who disagree with you, rather than just wagging your finger at them.

[RobertEarl]

25. Nah

We tried that. It's time now, and what this revolution is all about, that the People rise up and overwhelmingly crush the bastards who are stealing our future just so they can have their yachts and vacation homes.

There will be no finger wagging; it will be a shovel burying them and taking back from them what they have stolen.

[hfojvt]

29. you say you want a revolution?

well then you can expect to be fighting me too.

I have ZERO use for brain dead revolutionaries, and elections will not be won with rhetoric like that.

We have elections to win. Right now everybody expects that Congress will still be Republican controlled next year. We only stop that if we win people to our side. Fail to do that and we are right back to 2000.

[RobertEarl]

31. "No we can't" ?

Oh, hell yes we can. I'm not fighting you. But the idea that we are to tremble in fear of the republicans is just nuts. And we will take back our future from those who are stealing the pure air and water for their profits.

That's the revolution Bernie is leading. And when we have healthy, well fed, and well educated children again, the People will be happy and contented, again.

If you oppose that, well, then, maybe you and I are in for a fight?

[Zorra]

42. Right there with ya.

Oligarchists are responsible for most everything that is wrong in this world.

[uponit7771]

33. Yeah, lets crush them and get reparations!!! Wait... wait... were yaw goin!??! lol...

... "revolution" with an asterisk

[RobertEarl]

34. So, you're not with us?

What are you scared of? You seem like your hair is on fire.....

[uponit7771]

35. For reparations it is!! Lets go !! Viva La revolution !!!

[Feeling the Bern]

27. Democrats have become the conservative party while Republicans have become the

Fascist Party.

The liberal and the moderate are now unwelcome in both parties. Time to #FeeltheBern!

[Populist_Prole]

32. Bingo

I won't use the true but trite-ish "overton's window" argument, but only because it's so true because it's no longer needed because it's already been proven. Done deal. The most "reasonable" republican candidates of the past few election cycles were squashed like bugs by the PTB, and the same crowd deems any democratic candidate not economically conservative as "unelectable".

The best part about Feeling the Bern is making the MSM, the pundit class and the establishment, irrelevant. They're puzzled and don't get it. That's fine. Far be it for us to point out to our enemies what mistakes they're making.

[brooklynite]

40. I was always impressed with President Mondale...

[whatchamacallit]

41. You must have spit out your caviar when you heard Bernie say that

[brooklynite]

43. I get it! Because I'm rich, so I'm greedy!

I'd be happy to have the Democrats raise my taxes. One of the nice things about Hillary Clinton was her votes against the Bush Tax Cuts (you knew that,right?). The big risk is that Sanders doesn't win because of how other voters react to taxes.

[whatchamacallit]

44. I value the truth

If the brainwashed working class and monied elite don't, oh well... I'll still support the truthful candidate.

[brooklynite]

46. Ah..."the voters are too STUPID to vote for my candidate"

[whatchamacallit]

47. Only the ones who can't, or won't, detect the heart of the matter

Bernie's proposal benefits a plurality, but demagoguery has a long history. Just look at the democrats on DU trying to instill fear and loathing with the word 'taxes'.

[m-lekktor]

45. They remind me of Rush Limbaugh dittoheads! nt