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Bernie Sanders

Depaysement

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4. This is easy to rebut

Reply to Proserpina (Original post)

Sat Jan 23, 2016, 12:02 PM

Jan 2016

To get the half loaf, you usually have to start by advocating a full loaf. And why not first try to get what you want, what's best for the country and its people? If you start by advocating the half loaf, you will probably get much less.

A President Sanders will have to compromise with Congress to govern, but why compromise before you have to?

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Paul Krugman calls us out, and lectures on "How Change Happens" [View all] Proserpina Jan 2016 OP

F him Duckhunter935 Jan 2016 #1

Fuck you Krugman. draa Jan 2016 #2

This is the same 'perfection is the enemy of good enough' swilton Jan 2016 #3

This is easy to rebut Depaysement Jan 2016 #4

At the very least, a Bernie presidency would change the conversation. Broward Jan 2016 #5

I expect that after the 2018 midterms, things will really start to roll Proserpina Jan 2016 #7

I agree. There's a real opportunity here. Broward Jan 2016 #8

Go take a run and jump Krugman Rosa Luxemburg Jan 2016 #6

When they make it about Sander supporters, they have no argument. CharlotteVale Jan 2016 #9

The best comment from readers of the NYT Proserpina Jan 2016 #10

and then, there's this OP-ED: When Will the Candidates Start Talking About the Economy? Proserpina Jan 2016 #12

White people have least confidence in the American Dream Proserpina Jan 2016 #13

Feudal lord instructs serfs on what's good for them Mufaddal Jan 2016 #11

He has really jumped the shark on this one n2doc Jan 2016 #14

You mean the Family? C Street? Proserpina Jan 2016 #15

They. Want. You! n2doc Jan 2016 #19

Was going to reply, but... Bernin4U Jan 2016 #16

Indeed.... Go fuck yourself, Paul Krugman... MrMickeysMom Jan 2016 #17

His opinion means less than nothing to me. Autumn Jan 2016 #18

Good thing that supporters of marriage equality and MJ legalization never-- eridani Jan 2016 #20