The Tyranny of Decorum Hurt Bernie Sanders’s 2020 Prospects

[Tyger]

While Bernie was fighting to stop the Iraq War, Biden helped the GOP pass the Iraq War resolution and vote down Democratic amendments to that resolution. While Bernie was fighting to stop the 2005 bankruptcy bill, Biden helped the GOP pass the legislation that could now crush hundreds of thousands of Americans during the coronavirus recession.

While Bernie and the late Minnesota senator Paul Wellstone were pushing a bill to lower the price of prescription drugs and prevent profiteering off vaccines developed at taxpayer expense, Biden was helping Republicans kill the initiative. And as I told MSNBC, while Bernie was fighting to protect and expand Social Security, Biden was helping echo the Republican argument for cutting Social Security.

David Sirota: The Tyranny of Decorum Hurt Bernie Sanders’s 2020 Prospects

David Sirota, a senior adviser to Bernie Sanders’s 2020 campaign, argues that a key mistake of the campaign was Sanders’s refusal to more forcefully articulate the contrasts between his record and Joe Biden’s.

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[Nosecel]

Are you seriously shilling for bernie on THIS forum?
Go away!
TRUMP 2020

 

[Stingray]

This is America. The politicians that don’t take corporate money are just for show

 

[Tyger]

@dat feel

 

[dat feel]

bernie had good ideas but the wrong framework

which is lucky for us

lol @ trying to push socialism/communism here

it's actually scary that so many people support him, we should all be concerned

 

[Tyger]

boomers will keep dying. the oldest millennials are almost 40. we own the future