Comments by "" (@thehumanity0) on "Bernie Picks His Next Fight With Biden" video.

  1. Be mad at him all you want. He's almost always the only politician that makes sense & the only one even worth voting for. Not like we got much choice or lots of options.
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  2.  @Catlady-mw4en  This video is literally about him fighting to lower the age of Medicare (aka what Medicare for All does in it's first year). Kinda hard to make the point that he doesn't "fight for people" when that's literally what he does constantly. Imagine being aware of everything Bernie's done just this past week to unionize Amazon workers in Alabama & saying "he doesn't fight for people".
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  3. & this is why the Left never wins.
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  4.  @Catlady-mw4en  What a strange question. The fact that he's even pressuring Biden & the Senate to lower the age in the next reconciliation bill is the definition of fighting for people ages 55/60 to 65. You think they're going to put that stuff in the bill or even debate the issue without the Senate Budget Chair forcing the issue? Also bringing up Bernie's efforts on the $15 min wage is the worst example you could've given. When the Senate and Biden camp were trying to get the vote held up by the parliamentarian, Sanders went outside the scope of even his own authority as Budget Chair to force the vote through the Senate, when it really should've been up to Kamala Harris to do the right thing & overrule the parliamentarian or fire their ass. The bill ultimately failed, but Bernie had done everything in his power to make sure the bill had a vote in the Senate, when people like Biden would've preferred it got shot down by the parliamentarian as an excuse to quietly change it without holding people like Krysten Sinema accountable for her vote. Lastly, you have no idea what you're talking about with the union comments. Go on Bernie's twitter or Youtube page and see just how much he's done in the past week to help the Amazon workers in Alabama who want to start a union. You seem to forget, but Bernie is just one man, he's not a fucking god. Him helping out Amazon workers in Alabama absolutely makes a difference even though it's not the deus ex machina you apparently think is possible & expected from him. This is not the first time Bernie has helped Amazon workers & it's not the first company Bernie has helped to form a union. In fact, I would say the most progress & good Bernie has ever done is when he focuses on changing the lives & working conditions of hundreds of thousands of Amazon, Walmart, McDonalds, JetBlue workers, etc. You're either totally uninformed or a fool who thinks unionizing large corporations or forcing a wage increase on them makes no difference whatsoever (or you're just working backwards from your conclusion because you don't like Sanders & want to pretend everything he does is useless).
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  5. Kyle is really oversimplifying this issue as if this was just a basic negotiation or some type of haggling. The reality is that you would be lucky to get all 50 Democrats (or even 1 Republican) to vote on lowering it to 60. Not to mention Biden was the one who set the number at 60 as a campaign promise, so it was incredibly unlikely it was ever going to go lower than that no matter what negotiations were put forward. Think about it - he couldn't even get the $15 min wage & wasn't close to getting it past the Senate. We'll be extremely lucky if we could get it lowered to just 60 given Biden's current track record. The real issue comes down to the votes & whether Biden is willing to pressure the blue dogs to fall in line on these proposals, everything else is just pure conjecture.
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  6. Wow, this thread is just full of sad sacks of shit who think nothing will ever get better and have just given up life. The Left has really gone to shit when people like this hold the primary discourse. At this rate, the Left won't even have the energy to put up a primary challenger in 2024 if this really reflects the state of things.
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  7.  @sweepthelegjohnny  I'm not "strawmanning" anyone. I'm taking their comments at face value & making an analysis. Someone literally said that politics is never something you can be a part of - it's hard to see how I can 'misconstrue' that into some kind of strawman, it's already incredibly damning on its own. I'm just beyond disappointed with the state of the Left these days. There's no way leftists are winning anything when this is the attitude being circulated, I'm being serious when I say that, & no this doesn't just have to do with "Bernie Sanders", it's being reflected by every single Left-wing representative in government, am I wrong? That means it's a much broader issue to do with the Left & you even tipped your hat & said that it's anything to do with the Democratic Party (the party that the vast majority of the Left operates from). Also, just an fyi about you saying "there is absolutely no chance or leverage to even gain a floor vote let alone pass the damn bill". Lowering Medicare age to 55 is literally what M4A does in Year 1 of it being implemented, do you even realize that? If you would just pull your head out of your ass you'd understand that improving people's lives doesn't always have to do with a singular strategy or a single bill. You fight like hell for what you can get because the alternative is just giving up and rolling over. "there is no real fight going on in the Democratic Party"? Boo fucking hoo. They have a fucking supermajority son. In addition to that, the Republicans are hopeless & you won't get even a single Rep vote on any legislation you want, so the Democratic Party is literally the only battleground there is right now, that's just the reality. You deciding to give up on any fight that has any relevance to the Democratic Party is you just giving up the policy narrative to likes of Joe Manchin & Krysten Sinema up-front. It's a true gift to them and all the other conservatives & even neoliberal elites. This is the exact shit I was talking about, & I'm not trying to pick on you, but there needs to be some kind of self-reflection for people who have decided to simply check out of the current political system - you're just giving the establishment exactly what they want & then brushing it off as if you've reached some kind of absurd enlightenment through deep cynicism.
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  8.  @sweepthelegjohnny  I think that pushing for the next reconciliation bill to lower the age of Medicare to 55 or even just Biden's promise of 60 is a goal worth fighting. It could realistically SAVE thousands of lives. Like I said, that's what Medicare for All does in Year 1. If you don't want to support Bernie or any other leftist in gov't, then find some other way to fight for that goal, because right now all your doing is heckling on the sidelines & it's pathetically useless & counterproductive to any advancement in left-wing political goals.
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