The Democratic Safe House

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Since this is the Democratic Safe House, I wanted to talk to my fellow liberals about the Democratic candidates and which one would be the best for the next nominee or perhaps it's too early to say.
 
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Since this is the Democratic Safe House, I wanted to talk to my fellow liberals about the Democratic candidates and which one would be the best for the next nominee or perhaps it's too early to say.
On one hand, it's still really early in the race. On the other hand, unless something really unusual happens, it will be one of the top four candidates. All four of the top four candidates have issues imo. Those four are Biden, Warren, Sanders and Harris. Of these four the only one I would be ok with winning (I mean anybody but Trump is good, but some of these candidates aren't attractive on their own appeal) is Warren, and even then I don't think she's the best choice. The candidate I want to win is Castro, but I don't think he has a real chance.
 
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On one hand, it's still really early in the race. On the other hand, unless something really unusual happens, it will be one of the top four candidates. All four of the top four candidates have issues imo. Those four are Biden, Warren, Sanders and Harris. Of these four the only one I would be ok with winning (I mean anybody but Trump is good, but some of these candidates aren't attractive on their own appeal) is Warren, and even then I don't think she's the best choice. The candidate I want to win is Castro, but I don't think he has a real chance.
At this point I'm leaning towards Harris. Why do you like Warren better than Harris?
 
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At this point I'm leaning towards Harris. Why do you like Warren better than Harris?
Some of the things Senator Harris did while a prosecutor and AG of California. Her war on truancy for instance, locking up parents for their kids not going to school, and some of the positions her office took in cases the state was involved in while in she was in office.
 
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Some of the things Senator Harris did while a prosecutor and AG of California. Her war on truancy for instance, locking up parents for their kids not going to school, and some of the positions her office took in cases the state was involved in while in she was in office.

Yup, she’s not really a progressive no matter how much she recently claims to be.
 
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Democratic candidates tonight in debate are...surprisingly good on both economic and military/foriegn policy, and not bad on a few more things, like accelerating carbon neutral economics.

Overall, impressive.
 
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IMO, the biggest winner, by far, was Trump. Trump would and should be very confident of winning against anyone who debated last night.

Democratic candidates tonight in debate are...surprisingly good on both economic and military/foriegn policy, and not bad on a few more things, like accelerating carbon neutral economics.

Overall, impressive.
 
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IMO, the biggest winner, by far, was Trump. Trump would and should be very confident of winning against anyone who debated last night.
That's what Marianne Williamson said there at the location afterwards, in an interview with the CNN guy. As I try to recall and paraphrase, at one point, that there is something "dark" at work in the administration that requires a kind of (I'm trying to recall, paraphrase)...an equally powerful force, like love(? is that the word she used?) to counter it, to be strong enough. Just policy proscriptions would not work against that dark force.

I don't personally favor Williamson over other candidates, though of course she can say true things.

ah, it's on the internet, so I can see how far off I am in details. :)
 
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IMO, the biggest winner, by far, was Trump. Trump would and should be very confident of winning against anyone who debated last night.

Sanders, Warren, Harris or Biden would all destroy him in a debate.
 
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Yup. and so did Hillary

My point was that Trump would win the election against anyone who was in the debate.
That seems less and less likely, unless there is massive vote suppression somehow. It's the old, old:

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." -- Abraham Lincoln

I doubt this has been undone.

Of course, the whole tactic is to take us back to 1860 in a sense, sure.

But...I think there are too many Republicans that would not go along with that.
 
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Does anyone here think that Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are too old to be the President?

Probably yes, but as Bernie is the only candidate I’ve seen in my life who actually inspired me to start believing positive change might really be possible in the US, I’m happy to give him a pass on it.
 
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Inciter of violence and victim of violence. The Trumps with massacre survivor in El Paso. Great photo op - note the grimace and thumbs up.
 
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Inciter of violence and victim of violence. The Trumps with massacre survivor in El Paso. Great photo op - note the grimace and thumbs up.
Its like they have no concept of the gravity of the situation.
 
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