AOC: I don't understand why some folks run as if the internet doesn't exist.

[Midnightwalk]

76. I guess Democrats can't be trusted on social security

Same as the republicans apparently.

Yea that’s sarcasm, but that is a message some will take from this.

We really can’t agree that any democratic candidate would be better than republicans on this and any other issue? We ought to be pummeling republicans on social security and healthcare issues not each other.

I don’t worry one bit that Biden is going to cut social security or not work to improve healthcare. I know the republicans will. I don’t worry that sanders would veto a plan enacted by congress that fell way short of his positions but improved either.

The irony to me is all the policy differences between the candidates probably don’t matter. What gets enacted depends on keeping the house and how much we improve in the senate. Even if we do great we only have 2 years before midterms. If we don’t win the midterms most of our agenda will stall.

The only democratic positions I vehemently hold are that democratic policy is better than republican and that the more we can run up our totals the more of our agenda will get enacted. The bigger our majority the more progressive the resulting policies will be. Not necessarily the reverse.

The arguments between the “excite people with far reaching agenda” and the “don’t over promise and don’t scare the squares” teams are devolving into bickering.

The last thing I’ll say is that rather than living abroad for a year for cultural enrichment, americans should spend a year in a major city and a small town. Arguments that work very well in one don’t work at all in the other.

I really hate primary season.