Bernie Sanders is more popular than Trump, but the press ignores him

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Feel the Reverse-Bern?

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Watch the Full Killer Mike & Bernie Sanders Interview Here

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Trump is a salesman and every good salesman knows how to tell his customers what they want to hear. But then…

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There may be a lower bound, but my watching the politics these days tells me we haven’t gotten there yet. :sob:

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Bernie Sanders, aka POTUS Sanders, is the most sensible candidate. Go, Bernie!

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The truth is the Democratic party is in such a slump they can’t even make the debt payments they racked up and are trying to “borrow” money from the Federal Government to pay off their Convention. I for one, do not think taxpayers should be footing the bill if their own party cannot raise the needed funds.

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Not paying much attention?

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Bread, now, is a negative image. It is the existential threat of unemployment. That’s why the the anus-lickers have grown so numerous as to constitute at least 41% of the Republicans. Probably much more than that, given that Cruz and Carson don’t present much more than a pucker.

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To me, the real question is why are (were) there fifteen Republicans running, but only three Democrats.

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Or we can make all elections public, because we should all be footing the bill for a properly running democracy…

Run along, “libertarian”…

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If you count Larry Lessig, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee as Democrats, there were 6.

Of course, you could argue there were only two.

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So, in the event that Donald Trump is the nominee, the public should be obligated to foot the bill for his campaign?

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Yep. Although sensible limits should be set on what candidates can spend. Presumably that would require a constitutional amendment, though.

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Ah, I see. So American muslims and latinos should swallow their outrage and pay for a campaign that maligns them.

And a racist technocrat like Woodrow Wilson, too, I assume? What about a George Wallace type? Should black Americans be obligated to support their campaigns?

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That’s the nature of public funding. You have to provide access to everyone who can meet whatever bar you set for attaining funding, no matter how distasteful their views are.

I support proportional representation, even though I know it would give seats to people whose views I find abhorrent.

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According to the National Review, Donald Trump has no problem accepting taxpayer money:
“[Donald] Trump may have flip-flopped on all sorts of issues, but when it comes to corporations feeding at the public trough, he’s been steady as a rock.”

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See, I think it’s a violation of a person’s rights to make them pay for political speech they don’t support. Plus, freedom of association surely includes freedom of disassociation – I shouldn’t be yoked to a campaign I fundamentally disagree with.

Plus, that way you don’t have the sorry spectacle of gay Americans paying someone to tell them they’re going to hell, etc.

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Paying for diverse political speech is a good idea.

Substitute “illegal war” for “political speech” and then maybe yes.

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Some call it grifting. Sarah Palin sold a LOT of books.

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