Nice try, but no. $15/hr minimum wage was ten years ago. These policies are all very mainstream Democrat. Medicare "buy in"? Yeah, Obama promised that too. No more incrementalism. Straight to M4A! (but I doubt he'll even try for that.) Where are his plans to close loopholes and tax billionaires? 1/

Any idea what he'll do to lower drug prices? Make abortion safe and legal? Deal with climate change? Get money out of politics? Is he going to stop equating criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism? Will he reduce the DoD budget and halt the flow of military gear to local police departments? 2/

Besides all that, I just don't trust him. He's just a little too slick, too Obama-like. He'll make a lot of promises that he has no intention of keeping. And he participated in the back-stabbing of the only real progressive in the 2020 primary, which makes me trust him even less.

You finally got to the *real* reason you don’t like him — Buttigieg dropped out of the primary. Don’t you remember that Bernie Bros were calling for him to drop by trending #DropOutPete for weeks. Then when he actually dropped they learned the High Hopes dance, posted it telling him *bye*.

Your statement is wrong on two fronts. First, as a "Bernie Bro", I can tell you that the DropOutPete accusation and the dance clip you posted are complete horseshit. They have nothing to do with Bernie or his "bros" and likely have nothing to do with Pete either. Second, it wasn't that he dropped 1/

out of the primary. It was how he and the other Democratic primary contenders all conspired to backstab Bernie, dropped out en masse and threw their endorsement to Biden. Don't try to tell me that that is how a "Democrat" or a progressive would behave. As we've always said, the Democrats would 2/

rather lose to the fascist right than to win with an actual progressive at the head of their party.

Lordy…can you perhaps read the writing on the window behind the *organizers* as they dance while in the campaign office. You’re flailing.

I didn't see that, but I still don't see what you think this proves.

Y’all wanted him out of the race. It proves he did what you wanted and they celebrated it. Then here you are, turning right around, and complaining that… Pete dropped out! Do you really not see the hypocrisy?

Then they got all pissy and still are to this very day when he endorsed Biden. Bernie didn’t even try to appeal to his supporters to gain their vote. Knocked a hole in their plan to have a contested convention. Bernie’s best laid plans were faulty — he was outsmarted & his people fell for it.

Pissy? Okay, I'll cop to that. I can only imagine how you'd behave if the shoe were on the other foot. Let's not pretend that you're so virtuous that you would have immediately jumped on board to support Bernie.

The point is…that Bernie is not a Democrat, was never a Democrat, and didn’t have the foresight to see that he might just need some of those Pete voters. Which he absolutely did need because he got fewer votes in the primary than he did when he ran against Hillary.

JfC, this crap again. "Bernie's not a Democrat." So what? He's done more for the party than 90% of the elected members. I so sick of you piece of shit "moderates" that don't understand the first effing thing about what's going on in the world or how to fix it. You're an idiot and I'm done with you.

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All well and good, but how much follow through do you expect. As I said, I don't think he'll actually try to implement any of the proposals he's talking about. He'll be another Obama, and these faux progressives are going to turn the country right back over to the fascists.

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he literally talks about it all the time. when was the last time you listened to him speak or interviewed?

I don't seek out his content. The last thing I heard from him was his spiel after the Israeli embassy staff were killed, where he tried to conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism.

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