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Bernie Sanders possibly running against President Trump is starting to scare investors: strategist

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  • We already have a socialist in office. It might get elected again.

    Wake-Up Call
  • Morning @Mark
    Thanks for the link.
  • Remember the good old days when we had some candidates who at least tried to appear half-ass intelligent? How far we have fallen.
  • you evidently have not been listening to Warren

    we have many candidates who are more than half-ass-intelligent ... that's ain't the problem
  • My comment was directed at the two front runners
  • edited February 2020
    Americans generally hate intellectuals and want a president they can share a beer with. Even Obama, who was unquestionably intelligent, had a folksy side that appealed to the common man and woman. Similarly with Bill Clinton and Bush. Nothing though was quite so sad as seeing Hillary Clinton or John Kerry try to be folksy. Ten-point plans to fix healthcare that might actually work bore the electorate. Trump also has a lowest-common denominator appeal.
  • Don't even get me started....
  • edited February 2020
    Trump IQ maybe at best **30 on a good day.....Biden maybe 50 on bad day
  • What’s strange is the GOP’s wholesale embrace of election tampering by a hostile foreign power. What happened to patriotism and loyalty? The Nixon era GOP would have recognized this and put country first.

    And the dems wholesale embracing of domestic election tampering and trying to nullify an election. What happened to patriotism and accept the election results and move on honorably?
  • edited February 2020
    @Gary1952 The difference is no credible intelligence source has said that the GOP's claim that undocumented immigrants have tipped the scales for Democrats in past elections is true while every intelligence agency has said that the Russians interfered in the 2016 election to get Donald Trump elected and Trump embraced this tampering publicly in the media.
  • >> Americans generally hate intellectuals and want a president they can share a beer with.

    I know! Everyone knows intellectuals don't drink!
  • @Gary1952

    >> What happened to patriotism and loyalty?

    Huh?

    >> The Nixon era GOP would have recognized this and put country first.


    This sounds like you're high, and/or weren't paying attention then.
  • I wrote a paper in an undergraduate American history class on anti-intellectualism in the US. Such a phenomenon would not be found in France, whose history I know quite well. I dare say our "American exceptionalism" includes some character traits that many would see as deficits.
  • you a hofstadter student?
  • BenWP said:

    I wrote a paper in an undergraduate American history class on anti-intellectualism in the US. Such a phenomenon would not be found in France, whose history I know quite well. I dare say our "American exceptionalism" includes some character traits that many would see as deficits.

    Absolutely correct.
  • @davidmoran: I did read Hofstadter's book for that paper. It was long ago when history departments had real classes, such as a two-course sequence in American intellectual history. As a kid growing up, I recall Adlai Stevenson being criticized as too smart to be elected president.
  • get offa my historical lawn!

    'real classes' gone bye-bye, you are charging?
  • LOL. No shit.
  • I predict deadlock in the Democratic convention resulting in the nomination of Secretary Clinton who will beat Trump this time. Voters ususally vote their wallets but this year they're fed up with Trump's lack of character and vote for the candidate with integrity.
  • edited February 2020
    Biden and Clinton for vp 2020
  • johnN said:

    Biden and Clinton for vp 2020

    Somehow I assume you are being sarcastic, but if not, to God's ear.

    Fwiw, I have a sib who heads an academic global econ / trade program in WDC and has served in two State depts (Carter and Clinton) in that capacity, and he is "strongly in favor of Biden for his experience; I and others we know do not trust Sanders, and he has no foreign policy experience ...."
  • For those who are Krugman fans, there's an interesting debate/discussion worth watching between him and socialist economist/historian Richard Wolff about Sanders' "socialism" and what it really is. Think Denmark, not Russia:

  • ...As I've been saying. For years and years.
  • @Crash- keep going with that kind of stuff and they'll be drumming you right out of the GOP!
    :)
  • Which GOP you are talking about? The one with family value, fiscally responsible and moral compass is long dead.
  • Hi @Sven- Ignore me- I was just trying to give Crash a hard time...
    :)
  • Old_Joe said:

    Hi @Sven- Ignore me- I was just trying to give Crash a hard time...
    :)

    Hee hee hee. Go right ahead. Hello, @Old_Joe. I'm dying to be on the other side of Super Tueday, to see where we stand.
  • pete and steyer are out, which will help
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