and say these things to people, they would have no trouble getting elected and keeping Republicans out of power until this present generation of goofballs is dead, dust, and forgotten.

and for the sake of our democracy I don't believe that we can afford to remain in bubbles anymore.

The thing that gets me is that *rump was a corrupt, oligarch in populist clothing, but too much of the corporate media played along with that fiction because they knew he was siphoning votes from Bernie in this regard and their oligarch/corporate conglomerate owners were too afraid of a legitimate populist dedicated to serious reform which of course would cost them money in higher taxes not to mention Medicare for All and such. The first goal was in keeping Bernie from ever becoming the nominee, and *rump playing along with his WWE strategy labeled all critical news sources as being the "fake news."

*rump was also successful in scapegoating immigrants or the other as the source of the problem instead of addressing long time dysfunctional American policies enhancing the power of the less than 1% at the expense of everyone else.

Of course he also ran a highly successful campaign of projection, aggressively promoting opening the Epstein files and exposing a nefarious cabal of wealthy powerful sex traffickers and pedophiles covered up by the Democrats.

All of this was highly effective with low information voters and/or people dedicated to the idea that FOX "News" had any integrity.

they always need a scapegoat, no? imigrants . poc. jews . etc.

Just got a letter from my cousin in deep rural West Virginia. She doesn't think she should pay for schools with her taxes because she's old and already did her share.

Well I'll find a way to justify it to her. Maybe the old, " well if the old people didn't help out when our kids were in school, they wouldn't have had a good education." Or something. I have to think on it.

But Bernie will have his hands full trying to get those people to see past their noses. 👃

I knew an old Repub in the 90's who said the same thing. His kids were grown and he lived in the country so that somehow meant he didn't have to contribute to the success of the public schools that his kids attended just a few years earlier.

that self-centered I DON'T HAVE KIDS or I'M OLD regarding school taxes is just selfish nonsense

thank you for your leadership & love