re: Chris Wallace: "We're All Sort of Struggling to Understand the Bernie Sanders Phenomenon"

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This is all about the failures of capitalism

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This is all about the failures of capitalism, the rising costs of healthcare, college, and the disappearance of a middle class.

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Sigh, he still thinks the government meddling in these sectors counts as capitalism. Did you attend the Bernie and AOC economic education camp?

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This is all about the failures of capitalism

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No such thing.

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the rising costs of healthcare, college, and the disappearance of a middle class.

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All have to do with the govt meddling in affairs they don’t belong in.

Interested to hear what you think that would accomplish. When a college degree becomes the equivalent of a high school diploma and then the high school diploma becomes the equivalent of a GED. How does that move the needle?

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surely you realize there are people out there that believe capitalism has failed them.

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Do we know if these people know what capitalism really is?

Healthcare is expensive because of medicare/Medicaid and heavy regulation.

College is expensive because the government GUARANTEES money to the universities.


Literally every single sector the Bernie bros and commies whine about and complain about "capitalism failed me" has heavy ties to the government.


Why are big companies so powerful? Idk, lets look at patent law.

Why can't the middle class get to the upper class?
Idk, maybe if middle class people had more money to spend on businesses instead of getting cleaned out for welfare they'd have a shot.

Why cant the lower class break out? Because they're enabled by a system that only incentivizes doing nothing.


The fact that doing nothing and taking welfare is more lucrative than a decent amount of jobs says everything.


Why cant we afford kids? Because we pay a shite ton to people who don't do anything but shite out kids, that are raised horribly.


Every single problem in our society is a government problem


To suggest otherwise is pure retardation. Communism is what you get when the government attempts to solve all problems. No freedom, no hope, but hey everyone is "equal" in the shite they do get.

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Do we know if these people know what capitalism really is?

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Like your post implies, we don't have pure capitalism. We have this crony capitalism that takes care of the upper class, and we have this half-assed welfare system that takes care of the lower class. Meanwhile, the middle class is left to fend for themselves.

The Bernie Bros aren't welfare queens. Most of them are college-educated (be it in subjects that aren't useful, but still).

But they look at part of the problem. They give the welfare queens a pass, and they don't understand that we spend so much on them, that it squeezes out everyne else.

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Healthcare is expensive because of medicare/Medicaid and heavy regulation.

College is expensive because the government GUARANTEES money to the universities.

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In my opinion, the problem isn't so much that the government regulates things, it's that the government regulates the wrong things.

Chris, you ain’t seen nothing yet. IF Bernie were to be elected, free still won’t be enough

No Chris, y’all raised this animal, now get to laying with em

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My take away from this is not about the politics. It's about the ineptness of the media to realize what middle Americans are thinking and wanting from our government. Trump surprised the media with his following and now Sanders is doing the same thing and the media doesn't get it? Damn, how can they be so blind? Presently we have two factions of opposite politics out there and the media has been surprised to see both sides reveal their heads over the last decade?

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The media and the normal politicians (not Bernie or Trump) are so enclosed in their bubble that it's hard for them to imagine that anyone has a thought different from their own. They are the absolute definition of confirmation bias! They don't like it at all when the populace thinks for themselves. The media and politicians all think they are smarter and know better what we need...the very definition of elite! They can't imagine that we actually have brains and think for ourselves!

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And they would be wrong. Capitalism doesn't fail you. You simply fail yourself.

Capitalism isn't supposed to pull up the lazy and the weak and promise to make them rich beyond their wildest dreams.

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Well, that's true for pure capitalism. What he have in the US is a crony capitalism, where government protects certain classes (hello, bailouts).

of course, these people don't understand that.

They might be getting screwed, but they are confused as to who is doing the screwing.

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Well, that's true for pure capitalism. What he have in the US is a crony capitalism, where government protects certain classes (hello, bailouts).

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You do realize UAW were bailed out don't you ?

Do you not know a lot of people who work on Wall St make 50k to 100k ?

Those millionaires don't answer the phones and dump the waste baskets.

Bailouts were stupid and wrong , no one should have gotten them.

You need to quit defending the dumb fricks who want shite handed to them. They are worthless motherfrickers.

If you claim you are a Conservative , start acting like one instead of making excuses for the dumb fricks.