I'm exaggerating because any one of the candidates would be better than Trump but we don't need another pro-Wall Street, pro-corporate, President and that's the corner Buttigieg is in. If he won, many of these progressive policies he's outlined would only exist in the internet archive.
Why not? People are quick to demonize WS, but I'm more worried about the Warren/Sanders type candidates willing to upend the whole table....for something not resembling anything we've tried in the past. Growing business, growing industry-this is how we pull people out of poverty. We are at record level unemployment numbers and labor participation rate is increasing. There are fewer food stamp recipients. Frankly I'm amazed we've gone such a long while without disruption to the economy with the way Trump has barked, but in reality we ARE better off now.
Regarding electability, Biden??? He has name recognition and definitely a "background" support of people who don't pay too much attention to politics, but have you seen his gaffes lately? They'd be hilarious if he was 15 years younger, today that stuff is disturbing considering his age. He is obviously in mental decline. The only reason his numbers haven't tanked is he hasn't had the spotlight to himself-if he gets the nom all that kids playing with his leg hair in the pool talk, his creeping hovering/kissing young girls and children (even older women!) and other weirdness is just going to take over.
I'd say Trump and Biden are at about the same stage of mental decline. You just can't snort that much McDonalds and it not warp your brain by 75. The debates would be some of the saddest/unintelligible yet. Then they both threaten to take their shirts off and wrestle for the presidency, the audience is screaming "No! please don't!". Couple of stage hands come out and give both of them a B12 shot in the rear and then proceed to have a normal debate.
What exactly is Bernie suggesting that hasn't been done?
Breaking up monopolies? We've done that
Reinvigorating union membership? We've done that
Threatening Court Packing? We've done that
Raising taxes on the rich? We've done that
Free Education? We've done that
Free Healthcare? (Other countries have that, soooo. Yeah, we can do that)
Beyond that what are his major planks?
Fully fund the VA to end the backlog (they're currently 50k employees short)
Ban for-profit prisons
End use of three-strikes, mandatory minimums, and death penalty
legalize marijuana
ban facial recognition by police force
set teacher starting pay at 60k
equitable public school funding
eliminate all past due medical debt
cap consumer interest rates at 15%
every post office to offer affordable banking services
For monopolies he's mentioned breaking up Internet IPO's, the giant Banks, and some of the tech companies
Money to rebuild infrastructure (a green one at that)
End all corporate contributions to the DNC
replace the FEC with an actual enforcement agency
And to end my list, Bernie's foreign policy is probably the best in order to keep us out of regime-change wars.
Just how much of this is actually controversial? Do we think that somehow an extra 10% on the top income tax bracket is the deciding line capitalism and socialism? The economy is booming, and a very few select people are setting themselves up to continue owning 80% of it.