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0 pointsars1y ago0 comments

Sanders means well in the things he does, but he's unfortunately very very .. how do I put this, stupid in his ideas.

Even his own party never votes for his stuff because his ideas are always terrible. They are always emotional, but he never thinks them through. I don't think he's able to think them through.

I'll give you an example from a different person: There's someone on Twitter who wants a 0.1% tax on stock transactions, and then he calculates that this little change will fund everything we could possibly want. He utterly ignores that if you put this tax people will change their behavior! There will be fewer transactions, and this tax will fund nothing at all.

Sanders is the same way: He makes an idea, and completely ignores how people will respond to it.

Sanders has a 0% chance of winning.

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bigfudge1y ago

This is a misrepresentation of the position. It’s possible that to sell a policy like a transaction tax you might overstate the potential revenue. But nobody serious actually thinks you could simply multiply the tax rate by transactions to predict revenue. But that doesn’t matter. The revenue would be non zero. And there are plenty of other reasons to tax transactions anyway (stability, realign market and societal priorities)

arsOP1y ago

> But nobody serious actually thinks you could simply multiply the tax rate by transactions to predict revenue

This guy does:

https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/099/2...

I can't find his original post on X (although that's probably for the better because his feed is filled antisemitic garbage, and he's pretty clearly at utter idiot).

But yes, some people really do think that way: They never think about the results of their proposals, and getting back to the topic at hand Bernie is the same way (although unlike that other guy Bernie really does seem to care about people), but he never thinks about the effects of his proposals, how people would react and change behavior.

This would make him a terrible President.

And I would remind you that despite being in congress for 34 years Bernie has never manged to get even a single idea of his passed.

Glide1y ago

Bernie’s Sanders is very easy to attack because of how fast he folded to the DNC in the past decade.

Even for the Trump "bull in the china shop" voter, Sanders has become less relevant in 2020 and 2024 because he offers so little and for someone so called principled, he doesn’t hold the same ideas on immigration that he has before.

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