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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nader/Gore/Bush = Sanders/Clinton/Rubio.

Or sanders drops out but had pulled Clinton so far left before the general that she can't win.  
I'm becoming so hopeless I am now wondering if the best possible outcome is trump getting the R nom and then Bloomberg jumping in.  I could live with him.  At least he probably wouldn't ruin the country. [/quote]

Don't be afraid of Sanders.  What's so scary about him?  Do you like his positions?  Do you think he's advocating for a kinder, smarter, fair-er America that invests in its families, children, young people?  Are you afraid of your taxes going up?  What exactly is it that is so scary about Sanders' campaign?[/quote]

His plans for implanting his policies are simplistic  and well cost way more than he has acknowledged.  While affordable college is a worthy goal free college for all is not.  Single payer healthcare in the US will be a disaster.  I could go on.  For example, widely expanding social security is not feasibl

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That is not the case.  Virtually every modern industrialized nation has some form of universal healthcare - except for the United States.  Germany has had universal healthcare since Otto von Bismarck put it in place in 1898.  Your flat-out dismissals and suggestions that it's unfeasible are not backed up by actual historical evidence to the contrary.[/quote]

And yet he has no plan for paying for such a plan. [/quote]

He does, actually.

Repealing all the tax exclusions, deductions and the like for private and employer-provided insurance raises a shit ton of money. And a tax on Wall Street speculation (Tobin tax) would also raise a shit ton.

But more to the point, it doesn't matter -- you have to take care of your people. That's a fundamental public good/duty of government.

And, even MORE to the point, whatever it costs, it's still a fraction of the unfunded wars we've started in the last decade or so.[/quote]

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