Comments by "" (@thehumanity0) on "DEBATE: Bernie or Marianne Williamson 2024? l Krystal Kyle u0026 Friends Podcast" video.

  1. I like Williamson, but she's already kind of showed herself to be unelectable from her past run in 2020. You can say all you want about Bernie, but he almost won the election until the Democratic establishment joined the candidates together against him. As other people are saying, I would have far more high hopes for Jon Stewart, who has the key political victories to back up his run (and is also an outsider but is still proven to hold substantial political knowledge unlike Williamson).
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  2. "Having no political experience" might be a good thing on the Republican side, but it has very small viability on the Democratic side. The Dem voters are still recovering from the last political outsider that essentially turned out to be a conman.
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  3. Kyle always needs to get in at least a full 5 minutes of malding anytime Bernie is brought up. It's getting pretty old
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  4.  @pgtw2376  Katie Porter has a decent record, but I've never seen her once show that she can be a leader. If leftists are frustrated with Bernie cause he didn't ramp up the pressure against his opponents in 2020, I can almost guarantee Porter would be far worse in terms of political strategy.
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  5.  @jamesjustice21  These are some pretty big jumps in logic. I have no idea what you're referring to in regards to "doesn't support Med4All". All the evidence points to him supporting Single Payer Healthcare for everyone despite never addressing the Medicare for All policy directly. And saying he's just blatantly "anti-union" for what he refers to as a "very VERY tough decision" on how he handled the writer's guild strike at the Daily Show over a decade ago. He was, at the time, the executive producer at the show and made a point to pay and take care of his non-writer workers while the show was off the air due to the strike and ultimately had to make a tough call whether it was right or wrong. He was basically sandwiched in the middle between the writer's guild and Comedy Central and according to Stewart himself tried everything he could to reach a deal. I think it's a bit more complicated than just blaming Stewart as some kind of "anti-union" boss who doesn't care at all about his workers.
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  6. Andrew Yang dropped out and got behind Joe Biden in the last race, he's not the team player for the Left you think he is.
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  7.  @jamesjustice21  Normally I would agree with you. Yang came out of nowhere tepidly backing Single Payer as an after-thought to his own UBI ideas and I never trusted him to follow through with anything healthcare related. Tulsi Gabbard was the same deal when she backed off Med4All and proposed "Single Payer Plus". The difference for me is I didn't know those candidates and there wasn't much record of their beliefs to back up their convictions. Where Bernie Sanders differed was that he had been a mayor, Congressman and Senator for ~40 years and had shown strong convictions to bettering healthcare and supporting workers since as early as his days as Burlington's Mayor. He's on record showing without a doubt where he stands, and that's on the side of workers and against the insurance companies & large corporations. Jon Stewart may not have as long of a record as Bernie Sanders, but enough is on the record to show me personally that he's actually a fighter for workers. His writing at the Daily Show gives some background on his beliefs earlier in life, even while he held an executive producer position, he held some serious Leftist politics (obviously not without some faults, but overall very good nonetheless). After quitting the job, he's only become more Left, popping up in national news Twice now to successfully fight for and Win healthcare for 9/11 responders - actions that show he's not afraid to fight against insurance companies and Congress, show that he has serious potential to be an effective political leader, and show that he could be incredibly electable with bipartisan victories like that under his belt. Outside of those "Mr. Smith goes to Washington"-style federal battles, you can see where his politics lie by watching either his podcast or his new channel "The Problem with Jon Stewart", a show where he's bucked orthodoxy on economics and the financial sector, race issues in America, and many other topics you can tell he feels strongly about. On the show (& podcast), he's gone as far to call the whole economy a giant scam utilizing extreme Crony Capitalism and going as far as to call the whole system an oligarchy or describe it as "I don't know what it is anymore but it's 'Crony' something" stating that the American people are all victims of flat-out Greed. The more specific point towards healthcare is that Jon Stewart has advocated for European-style Single Payer numerous times over the decades. I trust him that he actually believes that's the way healthcare should operate in America. Does that mean he'll adopt Bernie's Medicare for All? Maybe, but maybe not - the more important thing to me is if he gets in office and sees how fucked up the healthcare situation is, will he do something about it? And I think the answer to that is Yes. Even if he doesn't focus specifically on healthcare though, it's clear to me he would try to tackle issues that he believes are either as important or possibly even the core problem with the insurance and healthcare system's corruption and over-arching problems caused by corporate greed & lack of transparency. And I don't believe for a second that he would get in there and turn a blind eye to the needs of workers over corporations or the business-as-usual politicians and forces in Washington. The thing is, Bernie's moment has passed. I think most people see that. I don't know if we'll ever get another candidate as transformative as a Bernie Sanders or a George McGovern who have a long history of political battles fighting for workers and opposing the Iraq and Vietnam wars. I thought it might be Nina Turner, but she's getting walled off at just the Congressional level, which isn't a good sign even if she did win next year. My next best option is someone like Jon Stewart, who has key political victories despite being an outsider and has the decades of records and videos showing his convictions towards the policy platform he believes in.
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