Bernie Won't Let GOP Block his W. Va Town Hall Mtg on Poverty

This guy would have been a GREAT President.

DD

 

Good old Bernie, just a real fighter for the people.

 

Still can't believe it came down to Trump vs. Clinton for the final decision.

Sanders was such a great candidate and stood for a change in politics, it's mind-boggling how so many people voted for Clinton, who is the definition of a corrupt candidate that doesn't care about the needs of average people. US voters really messed up this time and I hope your country doesn't suffer too much from it.

 

This is true however Republicans would just label him a socialist just like they labeled Obama a Muslim. They're experts of smear politics.

 

Guess who they will most likely vote for next time.

 

Feel the same, the majority of voters are sadly dumb as crap and fall vor every cliché.

The head 2 head polls were strongly in Bernie's favour though, so the chance would've at least been better than going for the Hillary route.

 

I don't think he'd have been a great president, but I do love Bernie. I appreciate that he's still trying to drive the national conversation even though the election is over and he's not likely to be in the running in 2020.

 

I like Bernie a lot and think he's in a good position to affect national dialogue on issues like poverty and healthcare. However, hindsight is 20/20 and Bernie was not exposed to the full load of opposition research that would've been dumped on him had he won the nomination. Being able to tar a candidate with the "atheist, Jewish communist" label is basically the triple crown for right-wing smear campaigns and it would've come out in full force against Sanders.

But, any amount of attention that he can bring to the issue of poverty and helping people see that consistently voting against their own economic self interest for 30 years is good attention.

 

You guys memories are too short. Bernie Sanders ideas are so intellectually dishonest and ignorant of reality
that they would destroy the fabric of what makes this country great.

He is probably the most dangerous candidate to the American way of life and to the entrepreneurial and capitalist
spirit of this nation.

This is a guy that lauded Cuba and Venezuela and is basically a communist

 

Lol, short memory? That's why I voted for him.

 

You really need to understand history and how all the utopias Bernie supported the last 50 years turned out!!

But you could always move to Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, Argentina and China and see how that philosophy works
for you!

As an example of the destructive power, Cuba and Argentina had comparable lifestyle (GDP per capita) to the US
100 years ago.

Socialism and Communism are illogical and flawed because they don't understand human nature.

 

There have never been a communism society in the world on a large scale, not in USSR not in China and certainly not in Cuba. For socialism, northern and some western Europe countries are darn close to it, US also have many socialism elements, social security, medicare, medicaid, unemployment benefits, food stamp, the list goes on and on. Not saying socialism is the cure all, just that your view of history is hardly objective.

 

@Rocketman1981, let's not have a conversation about the virtues and flaws of socialism and communism and the history of attempted implementations over the last 100 years. Bernie wants to talk about poverty in the USA, and some folks in West Virginia seem to not want to let him. That's probably what the subject is.

 

We could always move to France, Germany, or Denmark and see how that philosophy works. Scary!