Comments by "wvu05" (@wvu05) on "Bernie Sanders Announces Presidential Run Plans for 2020" video.

@donHooligan Sock puppet accounts? I don't play those games. To the larger point, last year, I took my then 2 1/2 yo daughter to see Bernie at a rally for the now-lieutenant governor of PA. She was so excited that, to this day, she still talks about seeing "Bernie!" and that he patted her on the shoulder. There aren't too many chances to meet greatness, and I don't want to take them away.
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I donated $20.20.
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@donHooligan No, 15% would have gotten them on the debate stage. 5% was for matching funds. The high water mark for the Greens for President was 2.74%.
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@donHooligan Your point does not still stand, because no Green Party candidate has ever been remotely close to those standards. If you don't like the two-party system, instead of mocking people who understand how math works, you should first be advocating for Instant Runoff/Ranked Choice Voting, because the rules as they are (not ballot access, but basic math and needing an absolute majority of the Electoral College as gained through pluralities in states not named Maine) lead to two options.
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@donHooligan It does not still stand, because Thom voted based on the two candidates who had an actual chance of winning. I have a sore back from time to time because I was sent to a war made possible in part by people who thought there were no real differences between the two major parties, when one of the two opposed that war. Lots of people made that same decision because of living in the real world. Thom supported Bernie while that was an option. Therefore, your point does NOT stand.
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@donHooligan Enjoy that feeling of self-righteous superiority that you never got your hands dirty with trying to decide who will actually govern. That 1% really, really makes a positive impact in the world. Oh, wait! No, it doesn't, because people like Bernie actually get things done and know how to work within the system, get what they can, and come back to fight another day.
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@davidclawson4733 You are so right, David! I voted Bernie, and I wasn't happy that Hillary was the nominee, but I live in a swing state, so there was no doubt in my mind who was the less bad candidate, and thus who I would vote for. I have voted third-party on down ballot questions before. Strategic example: Philadelphia has seven at-large city councillors, but you can only vote for five. Knowing the Democrats run way, way ahead of Republicans, I used one of my five votes for the Green candidate. In 2004, I lived in WV, and I voted for Jesse Johnson, the Mountain Party candidate. Manchin won in a landslide, but if the race was close (the final margin ended up being 63-34-3), would I have voted for Manchin to keep a literal slumlord out of the governor's office? You bet I would!
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@donHooligan Absolutely! I did three years ago, and I'll do it next year. I was one of the 225,000 strong who propelled him to his nearly $6MM haul with $20.20.
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@davidclawson4733 I've always been more of a "push the Democratic Party to the left" kind of guy, and Bernie has definitely accomplished that! He came to City Hall in May, and there were about 2500 people there. I decided to stay at the side, because I figured it would be easier to see him on his way out. For all of the talk of how he can't win over minorities, it was quite a diverse crowd based on race, gender, and age.
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Andrew Yang
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@65minimom Poppy and Biden did.
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