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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Lost Illinois, but He Changed Chicago [View all]The Velveteen Ocelot
(119,262 posts)27. A lot of Sanders' rhetoric reminds me of the '60s
when I was getting involved in the antiwar movement and had a brief flirtation with a campus Socialist Workers' Party group. I went to a few meetings and quickly discovered that the guys running the meetings weren't cutting-edge revolutionary thinkers, but just a bunch of Che Guevara cosplayers, entitled white boys going to college on Daddy's dime, throwing around rhetoric about "the Oligarchy" that was stale even then and trying to get laid by the girls who showed up (only to discover that their only purpose in The Revolution was to make coffee and run the mimeograph machine). Bernie's current fans think he's come up with something new. He hasn't.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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Sanders has done more to prevent minimum wage increases than he has to enact them.
W_HAMILTON
Mar 2020
#8
Funny, people are claiming he's changing Chicago, but when it's pointed out....
George II
Mar 2020
#12
Legal weed and higher minimum wage basically every schoolkid's dream since forever.
Scurrilous
Mar 2020
#42
Treacly Matt Taibbi comes to mind. It's a disgrace he has the job that Hunter S. Thompson once held.
Scurrilous
Mar 2020
#44
Yep. They have inherited a mess and are determined to change the power structure despite
BeckyDem
Mar 2020
#14