Comments by "" (@thehumanity0) on "The Real State Of The Dem Primary" video.

  1. Guys, look at the metadata in some of these polls. The last ones that just came out had them polling ex-Hillary voters by 61% and Bernie voters by 34% based on how the pollsters voted in 2016. That's a 2:1 ratio! When the party was nearly split on Hillary and Bernie in 2016. They also oversampled 55+ voters by 37% and voters under 35 by only 28%. These polls are so skewed.
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  2. I don't really like Yang's plan as a whole. It comes off as too Libertarian. He wants to give everyone a monthly allotment, but then remove any semblance of the safety net. So it's sort of like "Here's a check, now fend for yourself on everything else that happens". There are real concerns over how some tech billionaires are pushing UBI for possibly nefarious reasons because they see it as a cheaper alternative to a social safety net and a way to keep class inequality the way it is or worse.
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  3.  @Unclejamsarmy  I'm talking about Libertarian in the economic sense, a school of thought that I, personally, think is incredibly foolish especially when you push it to its conclusion of anarcho-Capitalism. I'll admit that I don't know all the specifics of Yang's plan on UBI, but the general idea of enacting a form of UBI while slashing the social safety net gives me great concern whether a plan like that will actually help or hurt the working class in the long run. There's a very real chance that it could just act as a metaphorical band-aid to appease the working class all the while not fixing things like healthcare, education, a living wage, affordable housing, etc. If Yang was elected president and his first act was to push for UBI BEFORE any of those things I just mentioned, especially Medicare for All, then it could potentially appease workers in the short-term and fizzle out any political movement or grassroots support going on from the bottom up. I like the general idea of UBI and also think that it will be inevitable in our future society, but I would highly advise that we fix our healthcare system, fix the tax code, try to remove money in politics, and THEN push for something like UBI so all the corrupting variables are out of the equation so there is no possibility that a corrupting force could misuse UBI to kneecap the political movement going on this country for workers.
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  4. More like a realistic one. These polls are massively skewed, go look at the metadata in these polls the last one had them over-sampling 2016 Hillary voters by 61% and 2016 Bernie voters by 34%. They're over-sampling Hillary voters by a 2:1 ratio! That's so fucking unbalanced considering the party was nearly split in 2016.
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