Wealthy Dems and their backers hate Bernie (and Warren) for the same reason they hated Kucinich: he wants to tax the rich

[the_borderer]

@petzl

Only Bernie/Warren recognize climate change? You sure about that? Jay Inslee’s entire campaign is focused on climate change.

There are positions outside the Democrat-Republican spectrum. The closest I have to an ideal candidate has no interest in running for traditional political positions. Everyone is a compromise

The democratic status quo is not doing anywhere near enough. I’d prefer it if things didn’t get so bad that we need primitivism to fix the environment.

Does Jay Inslee have an actual manifesto yet? His campaign site seemed to be lacking in-depth information.

ETA: since I think I need to do this again

@the_borderer

My political position is roughly Communalism. I am not going to get that from any candidate in any party (I think Vermin Supreme is the closest, and he won’t win) so I will have to compromise when I support someone. That said, there are three critical issues that I think need to be dealt with which are so entangled that they all have to be fought at once

1. Climate change / environmental damage
2. The rise of the far right / attacks on civil rights
3. Increasing economic inequality

I will support any candidate who will actually do something to stop all three. Third way liberalism has already failed to fight these issues and I have little expectation that they will change.

If the election is between a third way Democrat and Trump then obviously vote for the Democrat.
However, once they are elected they will need to be fought every day for the next four years.