You are whining.
Biden has the most standing name recognition and clear experience. As such, he always had an early advantage with polling, until some of the lesser known candidates can start to stand out.
Bernie and Warren are next in regard to standing name recognition. But there is still plenty of time for others, in the field of candidates, to stand out along the way.
You didn’t answer the question why is he dropping (SIGNIFICANTLY)???
I think it’s you mate that needs to take a good hard look at themselves in your ad nauseam whining on russiagate.
“The more left liberal candidates only appeal to millennials”
Disagree. Progressive policies are support by the majority of the population
“but there’s a lot of disagreement on what exactly should be done”
What disagreement?
There are many possibilities for both.
Health care reform has talk of single-payer options, hybrid systems, public state-only systems, re-regulating the current system.
Economic Inequality covers so much ground it’s impossible to keep up with it, but the most common proposals usually are different taxation plans. Then there’s welfare expansion, trust-busting, stricter regulation of capitalism, protectionism and plenty more I’m forgetting.
Wonder what tax plan will close the wealth gap? You not falling for the old trickle down voodoo economics trick ONE GUY??? Most people want Medicare for all - 70%
Player, I have disagreements at times with OneGuy, but take a look at the last 2 posts, his and yours. His is quite coherent, well thought out, well written out, and not offensive in any way. Then there is yours. You suggest that he is a dupe of the old trickle down economics scam. Was that part necessary?
Since you bring up Russia, what is your beloved 2nd homeland up to with getting nuclear reactors blown up here and there, (1 burned on a sub and 1 blew up on a missile, that we know of, so far) and now they have a nuclear reactor on a ship that is heading to the general vicinity of Alaska. Why are your beloved comrades suddenly up to so much nuclear related activity?
Timb - why can’t you stick with question and answer it???
Jerk
If you can’t play worth a darn, and then can’t handle the heat, maybe you should go back to the practice field, Bucko.
Timb can’t hold a train of thought and has trouble remembering what he recently wrote.
To TimB - isn’t it sad how some of the opposition on here has no game at all and can’t play well with others (oh, the irony of their name.)
To most - do you agree with Universal Basic Income? I’ve read a bit about it and it makes lots of sense if you truly want to care for all citizens equally.
Player and TimB let’s try to keep this from getting overly personalized and stay away from name calling. Both are against the rules of this forum. Thanks.
OK I’ve taken a look at this thread and it’s clear to me that Player, you in particular need to rein in the insulting rhetoric. You’ve been warned before. Further rule breaking can lead to banning.
Player,
I guess that because my party lost the 2016 Presidential Election, in part due to Bernie and his supporters, I’m a loser politically speaking. But a whiner I’m not; all the contrary. I’m standing by watching while the people who didn’t support Hillary in 2016 (whether Trump and Bernie supporters, sometimes they are one and the same) are the most vulnerable or sensitive to Trump’s administration nefarious policies. Nevertheless, the only sore losers I’ve met (and dangerous for what they did to this republic by allowing Trump to win) are some Bernie supporters who didn’t accept the will of the majority of Democrats, and decided instead to boycott Hillary, and implicitly supported Trump.
3point14rat, thanks for the welcome, and providing useful leads on participants of this forum.
I hope to stick around; provided, however, this forum is not another social media page full of insults and intolerance. My time is very, very valuable to waste on such matters.
Hey Lex,
There’s lots of tolerance for a wide variety of opinions and points of view. It’s the unsupported assertions that make some people testy.
I’m not a political animal so I don’t always know the latest political news or who said what. I state my opinions in basic and general terms and might disagree with a position based on society or how I think people should be treated, but I rarely get into arguments on specifics.
You sound way more informed than me, so I doubt you’ll hear much from me on this forum unless it’s regarding something to do with how we want our society to be or some moral/ethical topic. Go to threads in the science or religious forums to see me at my feistiest.
Glad you found this place and hope you like it.
TimB: "I agree about being fascinated with the universal basic income idea. In applied behavior analysis, a treatment procedure to establish replacement behaviors (to replace dysfunctional behaviors) can be a schedule of non-contingent positive reinforcement. The UBI, suggested by Yang, seems to be such a schedule (not that I think Yang intended it as a behavioral treatment procedure.)"That would be the largest psychological experiment in history.
The concept has been tried in various ways around the world, but never on a large scale and never for very long. I think the problems are that the little islands of people getting it are too small to get good data, and the cost is prohibitive. The entire system needs to be converted to it in order to see the real results and be able to afford it.
The frustrating thing about great ideas for helping people in need is that they need to be implemented and maintained by people who aren’t in need. Our society is far too occupied with individual advancement to be willing to spend money on advancing all of us.
UBI may be an idea ahead of its time. However, “new ideas” got me thinking. There is an IQ construct of fluid vs crystalized intelligence. Fluid being the intelligence involved in solving problems in novel circumstances while crystalized has to do with previously learned info. As people age, statistically, their IQ peaks and begins to decline, moreso with fluid IQ. So chances are some of the OLD guys that we consider for Pres, may have a high crystalized IQ, but not so much on the fluid IQ. In today’s world with so much change, happening so rapidly, fluid IQ in our leaders may be becoming more important.
I’ve never thought about it in those terms. Whenever my coffee gang gets together Saturday mornings, I always leave grateful that they’re old and won’t be as politically influential for too many more years.
It sounds pretty bad to think like that, but they are so uncritically conservative that there’s nothing that can change their minds on anything. I truly like them and they all have hearts of gold and would give you the shirt off their back. But don’t bother pointing out how they or their friends and family would do better if we had higher taxes and better social programs- they’ll rant for days about freedom and government control and wasted tax dollars. The disconnect between what they know to be good and right is somehow disconnected it there’s a hint that the government will have a hand in it.
These people all deny climate change and think there’s a conspiracy to create a one-world-government controlled by all sorts of nefarious characters that have no names, so I avoid politics or other topics like that.
UBI is definitely an idea that requires a generational change to get serious about.
LexDiscipulous,
I really appreciate your input on this thread. I hope that the friction that occurs at times does not discourage your continued participation on the forums. It seems to be the nature of social media these days that some are in it PARTICULARLY for the friction. That indeed is an unpleasant waste of time. But I really hope you hang in there! As you see above, if things get too upsetting, a moderator will intervene.