RustyShackleford
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Bernie will not have a Congress to inflict any serious damage on them. A Sanders Presidency will not equal Sanders policy platform being instituted. Billionaires are fragile and egotistical, so anytime they see some speaking the truth about inequality, and them paying more, they flip their ****. I think this what mainly is happening now.
This is one area where I think many leftist take on the Obama era is wrong. It is easy to portray Obama as a corporate America loving centrist that didn't push for anything progressive and that is what did him in. While I don't agree with all they did but in reality the Obama Administration was well left of Congress as a whole, well left of Blue Dogs as a whole, and firmly left of Congressional Dems as a whole.
Big business are hamstrung Obama too by getting to a few swing moderates in his party to **** him over. Then rode white supremacy to electoral victories, all the while convincing America that the dude who wanted to give them cheap insurance was against the middle class because he was too left wing.
It is a cruel trick, you deny a Dem president the great, you water down the good, roll back the decent, and act like the mediocre is their real legacy. President Sanders gonna get the same game ran on him. We really don't need to look at the long history of socialist being sabotaged to know what is coming for President Sanders.
Bernie will not be as naive as 1st term Obama hopefully, and not have the same number of idiots advising him in his cabinet but they are gonna run the same play they did on Obama and even Clinton. Convince a few centrist on the margin to hold things up. Bernie could try to go the executive order route but what isn't shot down by the courts could be rolled back too.
Bernie's combative self will most likely go to war with the party for not be loyal . I could definitely see him trying to get incumbents out and making more enemies. And he has a bad habit of surrounding himself with buffoons so that becomes another liability they could exploit.
So yeah, if I am a rich affluent scumbag a Bernie Sanders Presidency is not that scary to me if I think long term.
Why kill him when you can sabotage him and embarrass the socialist movement at the same time.
Best case scenario for Bernie is the Dems getting back the Senate and dropping the filibuster. A ton of good will be done, but you would get more of the 2016 Dem platform than Bernie's 2020. And that might then be a threat but still that is a long shot.
That's why I maintain that the first major policy push of the next Dem presidency, even for Bernie, should be electoral reform, not trying to pass M4A.
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