everything I see from this guy seems like he's basically a smarter liberal Trump? He just makes up shit on the fly whenever people ask him things and promises everyone the moon and everything he says seems delusional and unrealistic, but because he's promising free money to everyone, all the kids love him and the internet is getting all behind.
You could have at least provided some examples! I do think he has a propensity for ad libbing policies, but his ideas don't usually seem unrealistic to me. What I appreciate is that, for me, it's the opposite: there's someone who, apropos of nothing, regularly brings up small but reasonable ways to change American society for the better, if only we willed ourselves to do it. Ranked voting makes for better democracies. Our transit sucks. Filing taxes is immiserating! He underlines something that progressives have been complaining about for a long time, which is that America is slowly falling behind other countries.
I'm all for bringing basic income discussion into the mainstream and debates and things, but I hope when he doesn't win the primary it doesn't just disillusion all these internet/young kids and they become apathetic like with Bernie in 2016. Just feels like it's that same thing all over again. Bernie was also mostly unrealistic and just said things people wanted to hear without having a real plan to back it up. Trump also said things people wanted to hear. I don't like this era of politics where people running just say whatever they want without needing to stay realistic and people just eat it up.
I don't remember Bernie saying anything unrealistic. I voted for Hillary in the 2016 primaries but I think Bernie's positions and policy proposals were pretty clear, even in implementation. By realistic, do you just mean likely to happen anytime soon? Because I get that complaint, but it kind of misses the point of public advocacy. As an activist you propose what you really believe in and try to move public opinion in that direction. Compromising your beliefs because of the political conditions of the moment stalls the conversation entirely. What you are trying to do as an activist is
change what people think is even possible.Also that Nevada poll on the previous page is pretty scary. Biden and Bernie better not be the top2 candidates for the democrats or they're going to fucking lose in 2020. Biden has waaaaay too much baggage and Bernie Sanders is old as shit.
You better believe it, dude. I think you got it wrong earlier. We're not in the era of people getting suckered by politicians saying whatever people want to hear. Politics has always been about who people relate to and like the most, not policy differences. It explains why a lot of people can tell pollsters with a straight face that they're trying to decide between Biden and Bernie, two polar opposite candidates.
