Message from @Camera Obscura
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The terms are more or less flexible which makes rigid definitions different to say definitively
Lol. Biden has the lions share of the black vote at about 45% for comparison Bernie is in the teens and Trump has a 35% approval rating among black Americans....
I'm just guessing this is not the case given he has such little support
He caters to a specific niche crowd
That is correct xD
He's got the black vote of course for this reason
pete buttigegg has a more left-leaning position on a lot of things, be it a public health insurance option, the abolition of the electoral college, a heavier emphasis on climate change, and so on and so forth
Bernie Sanders is not morally unquestionable lol, and furthermore nobody really thinks Bernie Sanders has done anything for them on the scale Trump has, which is the big question. What will a person do, not how do they appear
That's probably not the case, given that only a small percentage of people are likely to use the public option and you still will pay for your own public health insurance partially. I'm also not sure where you got these figures from
Look I'll give you the young and ~~idealistic~~ ignorant vote. But the rest of your take fairly well demonstrates a lack of knowledge of black people in this country. They're not very progressive but do vote Democrat. So Biden is the big name not running on a progressive progrom. Buttigeg can't get it because homophobia is a lot more acceptable here.
Huh? What has Trump done for them? Christ OK when Trump talks about all those manufacturing jobs. When he talks about the rise in medium wage for the lower earners. **That is a disproportionately minority demographic**.
So for example, Bernie Sanders voted in favor of the Iraq Resolution, which lead to the Iraq war, but then claimed he was against going in to the Iraq War. Personally I was in favor of the Iraq intervention but it shows duplicity. Then you have him refusing to pay higher taxes or pay his workers 15 dollars an hour, despite demanding that the whole rest of the country do it and not live up to his ideals. He's switched back and forth on immigration a bajillion times but, but he also praised the soviet union's and Venezuela's social programs, which he claimed he based a lot of his ideas on.
He's contradicted himself a bunch of times, became a millionaire but claims to detest millionaires, and promotes policies up until it's obvious they will fail, and then pretends he never did. He isn't morally unquestionable. But beyond that, people don't vote for a guy they don't know much about, and that is why name recognition was so important, such as with Trump. He was never even a politician, but name recognition alone was enough to get his name in the media and get the votes. It's probably one of the most important features.
If you'd been on a factory floor you would notice this. It is a hell of a lot more "diverse" than the crowd at the Starbucks your Bernie Bros work at.
You've got to have national name recognition or the chances of winning in a national election is pretty low, which is why pete has a low chance of winning. Bernie sanders does not poll well with black people, because he has his entire career polled with the sort of left-wing progressive socialist types and, sort of the upper-middle class white liberals, and so naturally most black people just don't know much about him or have any real reason to support his policies.
The koch brothers are practically liberals, and I've never really had much respect for them, for example he's working with George Soros on the whole anti-military thing, but the profit margin for the healthcare industry is about 3%, which is not very large and thus isn't a primary reasons why costs might be driven up
Profit margins are a few percents, which means the costs are maybe 3% higher due to, well profit
Or you could look at First Start which *also* disproportionately helps minorities. Or you could look at the Opportunity zones that *also* disproportionately benefit minorities. Meanwhile Bernie is promising to kill those jobs and then **tax them** so he can pay the student loans of Baristas.............
"net earnings to $23.4 billion and an in‐ crease in the profit margin to 3.3% in 2018 compared to net earn‐ ings of $16.1 billion and a profit margin of 2.4% in 2017"
And you can look at criminal justice reform which is aimed at reducing the incarceration rate for supposedly over-incarcerated crimes
He didn't single handledly get amazon to raise their wages lol, but the problem is that he didn't pay his own workers the minimum wage he demanded the rest of the nation did, or pay the tax rate the rest of the nation would have to. The issue with too high of a minimum wage is higher costs for everything and an increase in inflation but that's another entirely, it was just pointing out the lack of principle.
He doesn't have the black vote under 35 is kind of the point I'm making, it's not very high. He's changed his stance on immigration by saying that more immigration is a Koch Brother's idea, to now supporting large amounts of immigration, and he's openly and tacitly supported both Venezuelas and the Soviet union's policies
How are they a threat to democray exactly
Also the number of jobs have increased in this country, they didn't lay off the workers
You can voluntarily choose to pay your own workers whatever you want and send that bigger check to the government over taxes, unlike trying to fly with no jet fuel etc.
Green policies are just impossible to actually implement, but paying people more is an easily possible reality without needing the governmeant to mandate it
He could easily have paid his own workers the minimum wage he insisted, or paid a higher tax rate from his book deals etc.
It was just a joke lol
my point is these are not two things that are comparable
You can easily, easily pay your workers more if you believe workers should be paid more
lots of companies do it
@Waldo
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/07/us-nonfarm-payrolls-january-2019.html?
Or anywhere else you look the growth is real. But beyond that yes we can believe it because Trump said it and we all know if he was off by 1/10th of a percent it would be on the front page of every paper and the lead story on every channel....
But Obama went through 2008, so he had more jobs to add in the first place
Just in sheer number of unemployed people
Jobs have been added pretty steadily for years now
But I agree that Trump deserves credit
I just said that...