Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, a sign of the president’s strength in uniting his party to have the backing of one of its most liberal members
Bernie Sanders is a perfect example of terrible policies supported by fiery rhetoric, yes. Sanders is not an effective legislator and his policies are DOA. He preys upon people’s financial insecurity and frustration to “other” all wealthy people.
He is absolutely part of the problem.
From the brief looks in congress.gov, so many legislature that has been voted on by Bernie Sanders also has passed, so there has been some of his policies that aren’t dead on arrival. The DOA legislature thing is like criticizing a legislator for not getting things done when political atmosphere prevents said legislator from getting things done. So, I’m not seeing a good jab here. At the end of the day, he opened the floodgates to discussion of socio-economic structure of our society, and nothing should be closed unless there’s a very good reason to do so, and that is indeed a positive result, and yes, it shows populism isn’t always a bad thing.
Who exactly isn’t a problem to you or haven’t been a problem? Given that you haven’t really responded to the observation that even moderation can be a problem, I’m guessing a moderate, and it would be very easy to spot a policy that is conservative which leads to Trumpism. And you know you want me to avoid pointing that out, and you probably want me to avoid pointing out negative peace issues.
Your second paragraph (if I’m understanding correctly) sums up my entire point. The Republican party didn’t just magically arrive here. Every step on the road to Trumpism came from populist rhetoric. That is precisely the danger I’m talking about.
Sanders is absolutely the same problem from a different direction. Demonizing a faceless problem to rile people up is irresponsible and dangerous, full stop. The Republicans should be a clear warning of the dangers inherent.
Pardon if I misunderstood - had some trouble parsing your second paragraph.
The second paragraph is more about pointing to moderate stances leading into Trumpism. How does it do that? By pushing out rhetorics that shines a light into our structures and by simply hiding problems like systematic racism in the name of order. The second paragraph is not about populism, but as a observation of how anything can be argued to be bad.
You need to demonstrate that it’s a faceless problem given that younger people are having far more struggles. So far, you failed to provide that case.
I have no idea what you’re talking about in your second paragraph. Can you rephrase that? If it’s about how conservatives have steadily fallen into Trumpism then yes, I agree with you, their populist rhetoric and demonization of faceless classes of people led us directly here. That’s my entire point.
I don’t think Bernie suggesting “Billionayahs” are evil people is productive at all. It’s just anti-Semitism without the religious/ethnic baggage. There are ways to effectively argue for necessary reforms without demonizing an “other”
We disagree on whether or not his rhetoric is a good or bad thing.
