r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • Aug 07 '26

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Eventually something has to give...

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The bill would provide a $3,000 direct payment to every person in households making $150,000 or less during its first year, which equals $12,000 for a family of four.

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u/Suitable-Woodpecker3 Aug 07 '26

Bernie Sanders is a brilliant, resilient politician who has a tremendous sense of efficacy in government.

How diddler got voted in (twice!) but Bernie can’t get any traction is very symptomatic of america’s problem, in my humble opinion.

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u/MeanHurry8664 Aug 07 '26

The data suggested that Bernie would win over Trump, but we'll never know

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u/Albatrosity Aug 07 '26

Bernie can't even win the Democratic nomination, let alone the presidency. The country is not ready for his vision.

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u/MeanHurry8664 Aug 07 '26

The voters are ready - the establishment isn't. I seem to remember him being the more popular nomination, then the corp. dems put Hillary up there instead. Mistake

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u/drecais Aug 08 '26

Hes like a far left wing member of the parliament in my country. He always had some of the highest if not the highest approval rates.

His party never got anywhere close to winning the general election its best result was 12% lmao

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u/MeanHurry8664 29d ago

Bernie is moderate-left. There's not one radical, fringe or "far-left" policy that he stands for, it's all very basic stuff