The campaign for the Presidency has begun with strong attacks by Billionaires Howard Schultz and Michael Bloomberg against the Democratic Party going too far to the Left, such as Medicare For All and Free Public College and University Tuition, for the first two years of higher education.
Schultz is the bigger threat, as he plans to run as an Independent, and by so doing, could help Donald Trump/Mike Pence to win another term in the White House.
But Bloomberg is also attacking progressive ideas as unworkable, without any concept of how to make health care and higher education, as well as environmental advancement, and even other issues, to advance to a more fair and just future.
After the disaster of Donald Trump, will the nation go for two billionaires who, while certainly not as conservative as Trump, and having a nicer facade, really do not understand the plight of the struggling middle class and the poor in this country?
And, while no one wishes to discuss this issue, the fact that both Schultz and Bloomberg are Jewish, in a nation where antisemitism still is prevalent in the South and Midwest, encourages more danger against Jews, by two men who have no clue as to what it is to live from paycheck to paycheck.
Their running for the Presidency, as they are making clear, only encourages more conspiracy theories on the Right, and also more left wing anger, and undermined the possibility of either, realistically, being able to promote political unity in the 2020s.
Schultz should look at the recent polling on Medicare For All by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Link for the poll: https://www.kff.org/health-reform/poll-finding/kff-health-tracking-poll-january-2019/
A majority of Democrats and independents favor various iterations of this idea. And even a majority of Republicans favor allowing people over age 50 to buy into Medicare.
The one caveat on the polling: Not all Medicare expansion plans are the same and there is more support for some than for others.
A cousin of mine, who is a Republican, was posting lies about socialism on his Facebook page last night, claiming things such as Medicare For All and free college, will turn the US into a dictatorship. He’s such an idiot!
Trump Again Attacks Intelligence Officials After They Contradict His False Claims
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-attacks-intelligence-officials_us_5c51bfbbe4b00906b26fa175
NOAA scientists debunk Trump’s ‘global waming’ tweets with a cartoon
https://thinkprogress.org/noaa-scientists-tweet-cartoon-debunking-trump-climate-denial-73f053069a82/
Apparently God is into politics…
Sarah Sanders: Donald Trump Is President Because God Wanted Him There
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sarah-sanders-donald-trump-is-president-because-god-wanted-him-there_us_5c52203ee4b093663f5af20a
Go AOC! 🙂
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-howard-schultz-billionaires_us_5c51fc3de4b093663f5ac439
Former Republican – Idiots like your cousin are Trump’s base of deplorables.
The Democratic Party is shifting to the left as a reaction to Trump and because of the influence of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Howard Schultz claims to be a Democratic centrist, but his policies reveal that he is actually a Never Trump Republican, who embraces the Republican Party’s fiscal policies but doesn’t like the xenophobic elements that have taken over.
He’s a sign that the Republicans are splitting.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/01/31/a-major-realignment-is-taking-place-in-both-parties/
Mitch McConnell is opposed to making Election Day a federal holiday. Shame on him!
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/31/politics/mcconnell-democrats-house-bill/index.html
Ronald writes, “The campaign for the Presidency has begun with strong attacks by Billionaires Howard Schultz and Michael Bloomberg against the Democratic Party going too far to the Left, such as Medicare For All and Free Public College and University Tuition, for the first two years of higher education.â€
THAT, right there, eliminates both Howard Schultz and Michael Bloomberg.
They are, politically speaking, fools.
Running for president of the United States, in an incumbent year, requires with the unseating of a president to have a vision, to have an agenda, to obviously have changes in direction with the necessary policies, to persuade the electorate to vote for you to unseat the incumbent president of the United States. (And sometimes that is not enough. Unseating an incumbent U.S. president tends to happen more often with massive unemployment.)
Howard Schultz and Michael Bloomberg have—and they offer—nothing.
Howard Schultz and Michael Bloomberg are dismissed.
Totally in agreement, D!