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edited 19th Jan '16 11:03:27 AM by PotatoesRock
Yeah basically he's going "in for a penny in for a pound" if the Republicans are go to oppose everything and anything he might as well argue for good stuff in full instead of the compromises that Obama offered up and were never agreed to.
He think he'll get it past Congress because it will be full of Democrats, if it's full of Republicans none of them would let him get anything passed anyway so why does it matter what he's asking for as long as it's a good thing?
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranThat's the short version, anyway. It's actually a lot more complex than that, but it's not as simple as "wages going up will drive prices up, resulting in little or no actual gain in purchasing power".
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
You try to get people on board with it. If you propose plans that people like, then people will support it. If people support it, then Congress will vote for it, because they want to get reelected. Republicans won't go for it, because their voter base doesn't support it, but pretty much everyone who does support it is going to vote Democrat anyway, so Democratic candidates can build a campaign on "I totally voted for that thing you like, reelect me plz".
There is a theory that many Democrats only vote centrist because it's that or nothing happens at all. That said, the theory in question was rather badly disabused during Obama's first two years in office, when the Blue Dog Democrats made many of his ideas impossible to implement by threatening to jump ship.
However, most of those got voted out of office in 2010 and 2012, so the Democratic Congress that's left over has a lot fewer line-straddlers than it did previously.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"The Senate is a possibility, but there is zero chance of taking the House back before 2020.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Hey, I have a question (and I don't know where exactly to post this, so I'll ask it here):
What exactly happened to that Ahmed kid who had a clock the school thought was a bomb? I've been hearing people claim that he faked it and that the clock actually did look like a bomb.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?I heard that and I heard he was suing the school board for 17 million dollars or something. But what I'm curious about is how legitimate the claim is that he either did it all intentionally to get attention or his dad put him up to it because of his political affiliations. Some people kept pointing to a Breitbart article (and all I know of Breitbart is that a lot of people hate them) that explained it.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Short of a direct line to them with a voice stress analyzer on hand, no.
As to Breitbart's bad rep, they're as close as you get to an actual real life example of Strawman News Media as you get. Yes, as in outdoing Fox in deliberate lies and spin.
Their only real audience is with the far-right and supporters of more... dubious online activism due to the activities of one of their "contributors".
Also, one of their journalists tried strangling a pro DOTA 2 player
.
If Bernie gets the Senate, though, he'll be able to ignore Congress effectively on a few issues. Any retiring Supreme Court Justices will be replaced by the hopefully liberal (with the usual caveat that a justice on the bench is never 100% predictable) and he'll be able to pick the most rabid Attorney General he can find to engage in seriously hard-assed prosecutions of "too big to jail" banks.

Hmmmmm, Sanders is ramming the overton window, basically. Wait, Mississippi is that bad? Yikes. Also, consequentialism.
edited 19th Jan '16 11:00:35 AM by vandro