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Topic	Bernie supporters, who are you voting for?
PrinceReva 05/19/20 9:22:02 PM #51:	foolm0r0n posted... He has the D next to his name, that's his platform. Christ man be a 3rd party voter, but don't be a child. It's embarrassing and why people who are cheering for the 2016 status quo to come back still are able to feel superior to you. Trump is the opposite of this. Yet he has the R next to his name, which means he automatically has a base, AND gets to decide what the base believes. He's used that to change what his base supports, but it has not really changed WHO his base is. This is an absurd, reductionist assessment and I don't subscribe to it. The platform, the policy platform that he is supposed to stump on and be his message of what he hopes to do as President, is not "D". The D is his political party. That party is supposed to stand for something and represent like-minded interests. Lots of people liked Bernie because his platform was clear and he wanted to help the working class with the programs he proposed. Joe doesn't have much of a platform, he has platitudes. As for Trump, the guy who gave billionaires a huge tax break within his first two years, cut tons of business regulations and did away with much of the EPA just to name a few things, indeed has that R next to his name. Every rollback of regulation, each government program cut, and every worker protection stripped is red meat to that R base. He's wildly popular within the party for those very reasons. --- slips away unnoticed <cite>PrinceReva posted [p:939419275] in Bernie sup... [t:78698370]...</cite> <quote>foolm0r0n posted... </cite> <quote>He has the D next to his name, that's his platform. Christ man be a 3rd party voter, but don't be a child. It's embarrassing and why people who are cheering for the 2016 status quo to come back still are able to feel superior to you. Trump is the opposite of this. Yet he has the R next to his name, which means he automatically has a base, AND gets to decide what the base believes. He's used that to change what his base supports, but it has not really changed WHO his base is.</quote> This is an absurd, reductionist assessment and I don't subscribe to it. The platform, the policy platform that he is supposed to stump on and be his message of what he hopes to do as President, is not "D". The D is his political party. That party is supposed to stand for something and represent like-minded interests. Lots of people liked Bernie because his platform was clear and he wanted to help the working class with the programs he proposed. Joe doesn't have much of a platform, he has platitudes. As for Trump, the guy who gave billionaires a huge tax break within his first two years, cut tons of business regulations and did away with much of the EPA just to name a few things, indeed has that R next to his name. Every rollback of regulation, each government program cut, and every worker protection stripped is red meat to that R base. He's wildly popular within the party for those very reasons. --- slips away unnoticed</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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