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6. Polls indicate these policies are popular across a wide political spectrum,

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Wed Dec 31, 2014, 04:15 PM

Dec 2014

including independents and many Republicans. These are not some wild eyed policies, they are centrist.

Of course cheerleaders for the status quo and predatory corporations want you to believe no one supports these policies.

Go, Bernie!

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Take a look at Sen. Sanders' Agenda for America... [View all] Playinghardball Dec 2014 OP

Holy cow.....that's exactly what I want in my 2016 candidate!!!!!! a kennedy Dec 2014 #1

Sounds good to me too... yuiyoshida Jan 2015 #51

Unfortunately, not one of those will get through the Republican Senate. zappaman Dec 2014 #2

When Obamacare repeal failed in the Congress, what did the Republicans do? Did they grahamhgreen Dec 2014 #7

+1,000,000,000 (top .01%) n/t gelsdorf Dec 2014 #9

+1 LWolf Dec 2014 #11

Just saying these are all great things zappaman Dec 2014 #12

Precisely. Enthusiast Dec 2014 #16

Repugs do fight for what they want - LiberalElite Jan 2015 #35

How bout football? "We can't get the ball to their endzone, they don't want us too!" grahamhgreen Jan 2015 #40

I reject that as an excuse. zeemike Dec 2014 #14

^^^ This ^^^ Tommymac Jan 2015 #25

That could be a good thing - let's really push for it and make these GOP bastards look like the calimary Dec 2014 #17

Defeatism AgingAmerican Jan 2015 #31

Well, there you go. No point in fighting for what we want, it's all a done deal. sabrina 1 Jan 2015 #46

No need to put words in my mouth. zappaman Jan 2015 #47

Yup YoungDemCA Jan 2015 #54

Now that is a REAL Democratic Agenda. hifiguy Dec 2014 #3

Love them all. I hope he raises each of them during the campaign. n/t pampango Dec 2014 #4

He adds to those with fighting to eliminate campaign contributions and enacting Publicly Funded Dustlawyer Dec 2014 #5

Polls indicate these policies are popular across a wide political spectrum, Enthusiast Dec 2014 #6

Exactly why Sanders will win:) grahamhgreen Dec 2014 #10

Amen to that, which will also be why they will fight any progressive candidate tooth mother earth Jan 2015 #29

K&R AtomicKitten Dec 2014 #8

Maybe Bernie is a Democrat afterall, he has listed items which has been in the Democrat Thinkingabout Dec 2014 #13

We have the largest Pork Barrel Defense Budget in the History of the World. Tommymac Jan 2015 #26

I seriously doubt the first thing on your mind when terrorist are coming to where you are is going Thinkingabout Jan 2015 #30

I don't worry about terrorists. I do worry about getting hit by lightning or drunk drivers. eom Tommymac Jan 2015 #33

I vacuumed out from under my bed. The bad boogiemen are ALL gone. Autumn Jan 2015 #34

^^^ This ^^^ Tommymac Jan 2015 #36

Did you find any corporations? Thinkingabout Jan 2015 #38

No silly. I can't look under the bed in the Lincoln bedroom,or ANY bed in the White House. Autumn Jan 2015 #39

In your reply you said "my bed", it is reasoning the only issue a president has to Thinkingabout Jan 2015 #41

I think that that republicans that shake and quiver in fear, and then cry "defense of our Nation" Autumn Jan 2015 #44

Can't help you, don't think Bernie is serious about the office of president if Thinkingabout Jan 2015 #48

Good for you, some of us deal with reality, some has to protect others. Thinkingabout Jan 2015 #37

And Some of us do both. Sen Sanders - a Realist and Fighting for We The People. Tommymac Jan 2015 #43

His record does not indicate he is "fighting for we the people". I think I heard about the TP Thinkingabout Jan 2015 #53

Comparing Bernie Sanders to Sarah Palin on DU tells me all I need to know about you. Tommymac Jan 2015 #57

You can attack me and you are the one who used "we the people" and I pointed out this is a TP Thinkingabout Jan 2015 #58

I have been Fighting for We The People all my life. Tommymac Jan 2015 #62

Yep, TP. Thinkingabout Jan 2015 #63

these are all things that you will NEVER hear Hillary Ramses Dec 2014 #15

Then you don't know HRC's record. Thinkingabout Jan 2015 #42

These 12 items as well as sadoldgirl Dec 2014 #18

I want every one of these things. lovemydog Dec 2014 #19

President Bernie aspirant Dec 2014 #20

While we're looking at raising the minimum wage, Utopian Leftist Dec 2014 #21

This is why I support Bernie for President in 2016 Autumn Dec 2014 #22

K&R liberal_at_heart Jan 2015 #23

"Reversing Climate Change" isn't possible anymore. tclambert Jan 2015 #24

Several firms are working on making sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere feasible LondonReign2 Jan 2015 #45

10%? zappaman Jan 2015 #50

k & r & thanks! n/t wildbilln864 Jan 2015 #27

"Crumbling infrastructure" MadDAsHell Jan 2015 #28

Progress Octafish Jan 2015 #32

I can get behind this. MohRokTah Jan 2015 #49

Giving him a national platform for these common-sense ideas will open a lot of people's eyes. arcane1 Jan 2015 #52

But how does any of this help moondust Jan 2015 #55

Send this list to Schumer. Evidently he is looking for ideas. djean111 Jan 2015 #56

Campaign and platform ideas. Nothing to really act on. Just needs the ideas Autumn Jan 2015 #59

It would almost be refreshing if Schumer just asked for "campaign blather". :-O n/t djean111 Jan 2015 #60

I want to see one of them just say, vote for me or I'll be unemployed and poor and that sucks. Autumn Jan 2015 #61