Eternal Idol
Lono, "The Dog"
Originally posted by dadudemon
That's great. If Bernie won and his health failed and he stepped down (or worse: he kicked the bucket), America would finally get its first black president.I think Tulsi would be a great choice to get Bernie elected, though. If you want more of the Independents and disenfranchised GOP voters, you need someone who can reach across the aisle and appeal to both sets of voters. Tulsi is the best of these types of Democratic candidates.
Also, the video that made me like Nina Turner was this one where she responded to the feminist criticism of AOC endorsing Sanders:
YouTube video
Her argument: AOC endorsing Sanders for president IS feminism. A woman who has enough power to make an endorsement that causes waves is legitimately "woman-power." How feminists missed the boat during their SJW virtue signaling is beyond me.
She called them "faux-feminists." haha, YES!
I like Nina Turner too, and that was a great example of calling out bullshit identity politics and woke for the sake of woke culture for what they are. The merit of a candidate's policies and their intent to follow through on those policies are what voters should be concerned with, not this bullshit of "It's time for a ______ president!" even if their policies are shit and their voting records and/or conduct are spotty.
As far as Tulsi being a good VP choice for Sanders, that may have been true several months ago, but I think choosing her as his VP at this point would likely hurt Sanders in the elections more than help him. Better double down on his populist progressive platform by naming a much more likeable progressive VP and win over more center-left voters than try to appeal to more conservative voters and risk losing support from his growing voter base of progressives going into the primaries or general election.
Tulsi's lost the plot burning bridges within her own party while trying to appeal to independents and conservatives. Corrupt or not, they still have to work with them in Congress and get their support if they hope to get anything passed. Capture independents and Republicans? She can't even unify the Democratic party, nevermind bridge the gap between progressives, centrists, and conservatives.
She's put in most of her campaigning effort into saying she's against unnecessary wars (so is just about everyone else...officially anyhow) and that politicians--specifically, Democrats--are corrupt (only unique in the fact that she is only lambasting those in her own party, but not in the opposition party). She's already caved on Medicare for All, and isn't really focused on any other big life-changing ideas for this country. She's just a loose cannon in the Democratic Party, at this point, and doesn't deserve our trust.
