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Highway61

(2,568 posts)
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 08:40 AM Feb 2020

Mayor Pete blasting Sanders


Mayor Pete and many others need to get a grip. Bernie is not extreme. What is extreme is the unfettered capitalism that presently exists in this country. Thus we have the extreme disparity of wealth and the absolute destruction of the middle class. Trump and the GOP are out to concentrate the nation's wealth even more. We don't need more of the same, we need a sea change in policy that will reverse the flow of the nation's wealth back to it's people. Thus we have the two progressives; Sanders and Warren, garnering the support of the majority of the Democratic voters. The people know what's going on because they're living it everyday and they are going to vote accordingly.
So, those who want more of the same (because they're wealthy and greedy or just woefully uninformed) start with the buzz words "socialists, communists, extremists". Labels meant to divide, scare and distract. After forty years of this economy for the elites the people now see through it and have had enough! Vote for progress and real change in November and send Individual One packing along with the entire Greedy Old Party.

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Mayor Pete blasting Sanders (Original Post) Highway61 Feb 2020 OP
Bernie needs the vetting. katmondoo Feb 2020 #1
Pete is speaking from his experiences . apcalc Feb 2020 #2
+ 1 musette_sf Feb 2020 #12
Good for Mayor Pete. IluvPitties Feb 2020 #3
He will cost my governor his job in NC dsc Feb 2020 #4
It will be a nightmare Hav Feb 2020 #9
Not a Pete B. fan.... LovingA2andMI Feb 2020 #5
Good. About time someone started vetting Sanders. SunSeeker Feb 2020 #6
Right or wrong, Bernie will carry the socialist label, and I believe that is a political liability still_one Feb 2020 #7
Yes Highway61 Feb 2020 #11
+++ still_one Feb 2020 #14
Pete pamdb Feb 2020 #8
Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2020 #10
If it was high school debate, he might get an A. David__77 Feb 2020 #13
Buttigieg diminished himself with his petty remarks last night Politicub Feb 2020 #15
 

katmondoo

(6,454 posts)
1. Bernie needs the vetting.
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 08:43 AM
Feb 2020
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apcalc

(4,461 posts)
2. Pete is speaking from his experiences .
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 08:45 AM
Feb 2020

What most people feel is not reflected in the Electoral College.

I think Pete is correct about what will work and what won’t.

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IluvPitties

(3,181 posts)
3. Good for Mayor Pete.
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 08:47 AM
Feb 2020

He is doing it for the good of the party.

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dsc

(52,130 posts)
4. He will cost my governor his job in NC
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 08:49 AM
Feb 2020

Cooper barely won in 2016 when Hillary lost here by just over 3 holding Trump to under 50. Sanders will lose by at least 10 with Trump at 53 or higher and Cooper can't over come that. By narrow I mean Cooper won by 10,227 votes out of over 4 million cast.

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Hav

(5,969 posts)
9. It will be a nightmare
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 09:50 AM
Feb 2020

Every Dem running for office, starting with moderate and purple and not to mention red states/districts, will be asked whether they'll support the "socialist" policies of the "socialist" Bernie Sanders. Whatever answer they give, it will be a trainwreck either for the presidency or their individual race.

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LovingA2andMI

(7,006 posts)
5. Not a Pete B. fan....
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 08:59 AM
Feb 2020

But he's right on the money here.

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SunSeeker

(51,368 posts)
6. Good. About time someone started vetting Sanders.
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 09:07 AM
Feb 2020

Hope it's not too late.

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still_one

(91,955 posts)
7. Right or wrong, Bernie will carry the socialist label, and I believe that is a political liability
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 09:41 AM
Feb 2020

in the general election

Highway61 is one of the great albums by the way


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Highway61

(2,568 posts)
11. Yes
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 02:57 PM
Feb 2020

yes it is...so is Blonde on Blonde

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pamdb

(1,331 posts)
8. Pete
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 09:45 AM
Feb 2020

If Pete and amy would get out, maybe their supporters would go to Joe. Let’s face it, neither one of them has a chance.

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David__77

(23,219 posts)
13. If it was high school debate, he might get an A.
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 03:02 PM
Feb 2020

Carefully selected talking points delivered as he delivers them? Not a concern.

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Politicub

(12,163 posts)
15. Buttigieg diminished himself with his petty remarks last night
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 03:22 PM
Feb 2020

He would have been better served by sharing his positive message and losing the “eeek a socialist” hyperbole.

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