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Blue_true

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38. Both issues way preceded Sanders running for President.

Fri Mar 20, 2020, 06:06 PM

Mar 2020

Last edited Fri Mar 20, 2020, 06:53 PM - Edit history (1)

The two issues were local issues. Sanders lost Illinois by around 28%, with most of Biden's victory margin coming from Chocago.

Senator Bernie Sanders is not the force that you make him out to be, the issues that he promotes were promoted by people long before he took them up, hell, Harry Truman made an effort to get Universal Health Care Coverage and was said to have considered his not being able to as one of his most significant failings.

It baffles me why people think that a person who has spent 30+ years in Washington and got almost nothing done will magically transform society to some progressive bastion, hell, LBJ was an infinitely more effective member of Congress before assuming the Presidency and even LBJ left a lot of progressive legistlation that he didn't have support for on the table.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Bernie Sanders Lost Illinois, but He Changed Chicago [View all] Uncle Joe Mar 2020 OP

I'm sure Lori Lightfoot would have something to say about that..... George II Mar 2020 #1

+1 n/t ZenDem Mar 2020 #2

Dammit George, pull your head out of the sand, it's all about that magic Blue_true Mar 2020 #39

Thank You For The Laugh, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2020 #3

How is that relevant to Bernie's remaining in the race? MineralMan Mar 2020 #4

Ridiculous, isn't it? NurseJackie Mar 2020 #7

Beyond That, Sir, It Presumes No One Changes The Magistrate Mar 2020 #13

Thank your for your seasoned insights, Sir. MineralMan Mar 2020 #15

Your Post, Sir, Puts Me in Mind of the 1990 Film, "Slacker" MineralMan Mar 2020 #18

Most Of Them Will Grow All The Way Up, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2020 #19

Perhaps You Are Correct in That, Sir. MineralMan Mar 2020 #20

Doubtless, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2020 #22

Political Theory Is, It Seems, Rarely Put into Practice Unaltered. MineralMan Mar 2020 #23

Greed, Tribalism, Emotional Attachments, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2020 #24

That Clarifies Things Nicely, Sir, MineralMan Mar 2020 #32

Actually Something Of A Socialist Myself, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2020 #33

As am I, philosophically. MineralMan Mar 2020 #36

A lot of Sanders' rhetoric reminds me of the '60s The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #27

My Views Have A Similar Root, Ma'am The Magistrate Mar 2020 #29

You know. Blue_true Mar 2020 #40

The whole state of Illinois has legal marijuana frazzled Mar 2020 #5

Haaaaaa! NurseJackie Mar 2020 #6

Sanders has done more to prevent minimum wage increases than he has to enact them. W_HAMILTON Mar 2020 #8

Funny, people are claiming he's changing Chicago, but when it's pointed out.... George II Mar 2020 #12

LOL, I didn't even know that factoid -- oof! W_HAMILTON Mar 2020 #21

Remember the Simon and Garfunkel line from the song "The Boxer" Blue_true Mar 2020 #41

That Is A Favorite Song The Magistrate Mar 2020 #46

Love minus zero, no limit tirebiter Mar 2020 #9

Written by bro Edward McLelland lol NCProgressive Mar 2020 #10

Legal weed and higher minimum wage basically every schoolkid's dream since forever. Scurrilous Mar 2020 #42

Looking at some of the Bernie biased articles NCProgressive Mar 2020 #43

Treacly Matt Taibbi comes to mind. It's a disgrace he has the job that Hunter S. Thompson once held. Scurrilous Mar 2020 #44

That Last Is Worth An O.P., Sir The Magistrate Mar 2020 #45

Done. Scurrilous Mar 2020 #47

gee i had most of those "ideas' 40 yrs ago. where has he been all that time? nt msongs Mar 2020 #11

Bernie may have lost Illinois, but msongs changed Chicago. Codeine Mar 2020 #37

Yep. They have inherited a mess and are determined to change the power structure despite BeckyDem Mar 2020 #14

.... Uncle Joe Mar 2020 #16

In solidarity my friend. BeckyDem Mar 2020 #17

More losing is winning! You know who else always claims losing is winning? MrsCoffee Mar 2020 #25

Chicago is being gentrified. RandySF Mar 2020 #26

Blue states have been on this before Sanders. Why does he get the credit? Our state Democrats have LizBeth Mar 2020 #28

Sigh Me. Mar 2020 #30

. Squinch Mar 2020 #31

Joe won Cook county and all the collar counties by an average of about 25% LuvLoogie Mar 2020 #34

Champaign is a college town... George II Mar 2020 #35

Both issues way preceded Sanders running for President. Blue_true Mar 2020 #38

Yeah! MyNameGoesHere Mar 2020 #48

Bernie Sanders didn't win any larger argument Gothmog Mar 2020 #49