Comments by "Vic 2.0" (@Vic2point0) on "Barbara Smith Endorses Bernie Sanders for President" video.

That's a big NO to Bernie. He spends too much time trying to divide us on the basis of wealth and race. And I will add that I'm not going to be convinced by this sort of endorsement. I mean, Alveda King supports Trump, but you don't see me going on about it. Indeed, I'm guessing that Bernie supporters would be quick to say "So what?" to that, so these things just don't matter.
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@bbolin5626 Pandering, mostly. Like when he told minorities that white people don't know what it's like to be poor, because I guess he thought that's what they wanted to hear?
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JamesHLanier I'm not all that convinced that "institutional racism" (depending on how you define it) is a thing either. And in general, Bernie's policies are quite the opposite of what's actually worked in the past. Take Scandinavia. Bernie says he wants us to be like them, but he doesn't want to do what they did to get there. They're considerably more free-market than the U.S. No minimum wage laws, they've school vouchers, they don't penalize the wealthy with high corporate tax rates. All things he opposes. The fact is that most of our economic problems are the direct result of government intervention.
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JamesHLanier Okay, so where's the evidence that the system itself is racist, rather than just certain individuals in certain places? Also, you should read what I typed. If capitalism were the problem, Scandinavia would be doing worse in terms of affording "free" healthcare and the like. Or considering healthcare in the U.S. alone, prices skyrocketed in the 60s with the advent of Medicaid and Medicare. Why? Because the government radically increased demand while hindering supply. If they would let people open clinics/hospitals instead of dictating where they think the people need it, then we'd have competition in that industry and we'd see prices going down, the quality and efficiency of healthcare going up, etc. See, part of the problem in communication between the right and the left is that the left thinks we're a capitalistic country right now, but we're not. We're actually already more socialist-leaning than the places people are calling socialist, for the reasons I laid out earlier.
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