2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Printed in Des Moines Register: Our caucus: Debaters agree on one thing -- Sanders [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)which you WON'T DEFINE and only use as an expletive rather than trying to even attempt to do any constructive dialogue about what it means and why it makes Bernie or any Democrat for that matter bad.
It is that kind of labeling that we are used to have coming at us about our candidates from Republicans and not Democrats, who have little ability to rationally defend their own candidates' stances, and would rather just appeal to people's base instincts with things like "He's a socialist" card instead of ANY useful discussion on issues.
If FDR were alive today, he would be a lot more proud of how his speech taking on the economic royalists of his time was followed more by Bernie today than other so-called Democrats like even Obama who has prioritized the economic royalists TREATS he's been working for them with all the f'd up "Free Trade" deals that he's worked with Republicans to get passed rather than Democrats that still cling to the standards that older Democratic Party members have set.
And you DO understand that Bernie and more progressive presidents like FDR and Eisenhower and even JFK before him aren't taxing ALL of the wealthy's income at 70% and just the top amount that they make with the top MARGINAL bracket. When you leave that out, you once again expose yourself as using the same tactics that corporatist Republicans do in trying to argue against a progressive tax system.