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"Moldy Tater Gangrene, even before Moscow Marge."
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Originally Posted by Elliott_CA
Wow, the right wing is in full denial about Democratic Socialists. They just can't admit that there's a significant number of Americans who want to borrow some ideas from Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, etc. where the government actually interested in the well-being of its citizens. Bernie Sanders got 13 million votes.
Universal healthcare -- Medicare For All -- is not a radical idea. We already have single payer healthcare for all people age 65 and older. Medicare For All is an extension and expansion of an existing program, and it can be accomplished by dropping the qualifying age from 65 to a lower number.
Debt-Free College. We already have free K-12 education in this country and have for over 100 years. Expanding it to K-16 is in keeping with a tradition we already have.
You can call Democrats "commies" or "Marxists" all you want but the reality is the above two ideas are reasonable, doable, and are not radical. And a growing number of people support their implementation.
I guess right wingers forget that among the nations without publicly funded education are certain "****hole nations" as Trump called them. They don't have universal health care either, while all our economic peers do. Low-to-No-Debt College, same thing.
The right wing would be for privatizing oxygen if they could.
Its really not a shock how she did so. She's a Latina who ran for election in a primary in an overwhelming Latino district. I'm shocked that something like this didn't happen earlier given the racial politics of the Democrat Party.
Its really not a shock how she did so. She's a Latina who ran for election in a primary in an overwhelming Latino district. I'm shocked that something like this didn't happen earlier given the racial politics of the Democrat Party.
Some of her strongest portions of the district were in the whiter sections of it (Astoria- Ditmars-Steinway)
Cantor lost because he was arrogant and didn't think he could lose - he was the expected next Speaker after Boehner.
Crowley lost for pretty much the same reason - he was the expected next Speaker after Pelosi.
You are correct about Cantor and Crowley - you are incorrect about Ocasio and support from big donors.
Donors on the Left don't come any bigger than George Soros - his groups not only funded her, they recruited her and Ocasio herself says that.
Just FYI, Crowley is on the general election ballot, along with Cortez and whoever the token Republican is in that race.
Also, I heard that Obama refused to endorse Cortez, apparently because she is too much of a dingbat kook, and also because she appears incapable of dishonestly obfuscating her radical, hard-left views in the same way that the pathological liar and diagnosable narcissist Barack Obama relentlessly and shamelessly did.
Nobody should be surprised if Crowley wins this race running on a third-party banner (Again, he is already listed on the general election ballot) this November.
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