He doesn’t put forward serious ideas. He makes headlines to sell books, the source of his millions in personal wealth.
In two decades in office he never found one moment to pull a Sinema/Manchin?
> the Republican filibuster stonewalled absolutely anything interesting that the Democrats wanted to do anyway
Taxes can be passed via budget reconciliation. The simple truth is policy has never been something Sanders has politically prioritized.
What a dump asstake.
To be clear, I make no allegations of corruption. Just that he’s pushed zero policy that aligns with his purported views in the way he’s pushed his book sales.
[1] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/05/24/bernie-sa...
It turns out that a capitalist system favours those who have capital, who coincidentally have all the power.
So “the market”, is literally controlled by those in power. Why would they give a shit about labour, who the capitalist owning class are benefitting from by training their models on?
To put it even blunter, Some people inherit power and exploit that power over those of us who have inherited a low status in society.
Your market is a facade.
I think a lot of people on hacker news are doomers and are trying to spread this message far and wide, when in reality, you really can change the world by being proactive with your thoughts and actions.
hope the bots dont downvote me to hell :)
Not how politics works! He puts zero effort into making them passable, or pushing to get them included into omnibuses. He’s there to placate and sell books. If what you want is an influencer in the Senate, he’s your guy.
You mean watering them down so they’re next to useless and full of carved out exceptions for paying “friends”?