One thing is pretty obvious right out of the gate regarding Bernie...

[PatrickforO]

25. Interesting. That comment about Pence.

See, I'm not a big Biden fan because of a) his chauvinistic behavior during the Anita Hill hearings and b) his vocal support of the 2005 bankruptcy laws, which have done more than anything to ensure that our children and grandchildren can never, every get out of the student loan debt they must incur to have a decent career. Never.

Millions of Americans of all ages, and certainly the Millennials, have been made debt-slaves through predatory capitalism. That was just wrong on so many levels.

I like Brown, too. Right now I'm for Warren, because I'm an economist and I love her positions - she totally 'gets it.' Consider her 'Accountable Capitalism Act,' introduced in August 2018. Sure, it won't pass...right now...but Warren has correctly, in my opinion, identified the root cause of most of the problems we everyday Americans have: crummy, rationed healthcare with financially crippling copays, fear of losing Social Security, inflation, global warming...and so on.

Here's an excerpt from an essay I wrote about the Accountable Capitalism Act, because I'm really trying to educate people - this is nuanced but very, very important:

The role of government in a capitalist ‘market’ economy is to mitigate the predatory effects of the capitalist 'primacy of the shareholder' doctrine on the workforce, consumers and environment.

See, if you look at what has happened with national public policy since Ronald Reagan slithered into the White House back in 1981, the New Deal has been steadily undermined with:

• Union busting.
• Stagnation of wages.
• Unsafe working environments.
• Deterioration of pension plans.
• Excessive means testing in Social Security.
• Planned obsolescence engineered into products.
• Shrinkage of container size with the same or increased pricing.
• Predatory lending practices, pernicious fees, and usurious interest rates.
• Consumer safety de-emphasized if the cost of expected litigation is lower than fixing the problem.
• Tax policies that essentially transfer money from the public treasury to billionaires and corporate profits (that's what trickle-down IS).
• Paying merchants of doubt to create faux controversy around health issues and climate issues.
• Diluted financial and environmental regulations.

See, THIS is what capitalism is, it's essential nature, and why we need a strong government that works.

The primacy of the shareholder at the expense of workers, consumers and the environment is like a corrosive acid eating at the very world we live in, not to mention the welfare of taxpaying, hard-working individuals on Main Street.

Remember what Obama told us: Americans don't care what size government is, they want a government that works.