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Hillary Clinton

yallerdawg

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10. Philosopically, Marxism is economic theory.

Reply to Lucinda (Original post)

Wed Feb 24, 2016, 10:55 PM

Feb 2016

Old socialists (and there are many more than just Bernie) see the evils of the world in economic class, a simple black and white of haves and have-nots.

The inherent excesses of capitalism will reach a tipping point where we all say, "Enough is enough!" Then we can have the political revolution and the will of the people to carry it out.

As we can plainly see, we are not there yet.

America is not there, and Sanders is not the leader to take us there!

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Bernie's real flaw politically (CLINTON GROUP) [View all] Lucinda Feb 2016 OP

Yes, she does listen, reacts to the info. Thinkingabout Feb 2016 #1

And works hard to fix it. Lucinda Feb 2016 #2

Yes Thinkingabout Feb 2016 #6

He is starting to remind me of Rubio nt fun n serious Feb 2016 #3

Bernie has passion...I think Rubio just has a battery pack. Lucinda Feb 2016 #9

Excellent!!! CajunBlazer Feb 2016 #14

Yay! Lucinda Feb 2016 #16

Agreed, money as power is the only thing that he has concentrated on.... CajunBlazer Feb 2016 #4

He would be so unprepared. And I agree, the more I look the less I see any real interest Lucinda Feb 2016 #8

I think that originally he was interested in ensureing Hillary had competion... CajunBlazer Feb 2016 #11

True believers are dangerous. Especially when their message is limited. Lucinda Feb 2016 #12

What he ignores is Wall Street is not monilithic Tommy2Tone Feb 2016 #5

Yep. There may be heavily corrupt individuals, but so much of his Lucinda Feb 2016 #7

Philosopically, Marxism is economic theory. yallerdawg Feb 2016 #10

Makes sense. He really does see everything through that lense. Lucinda Feb 2016 #13

The biggest issue with Wall Street in real life... Kang Colby Feb 2016 #15

I actually wasn't aware of that vote, thank you for the information! Lucinda Feb 2016 #17

It was in the budget bill...and will cost people who have yet to retire about $50,000 in benefits. Kang Colby Feb 2016 #18

Wow. I stopped digging into Bernie a while back when I started seeing what was up Lucinda Feb 2016 #19