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@alanhartley @SallyStrange @tzimmer_history

They could have supported Bernie Sanders, who is universally beloved, has the highest approval rating of any politician in the country, and whose policies would lift poor Americans out of poverty and ease the tax burden on everyone else at the expense of billionaires no one should give a fuck about.

Imagine this is Bernie's second term now.

You now have: free healthcare, including dental and vision. All your medical debt is forgiven and in many cases you were reimbursed for the medical bills you paid because you were thought of as a victim of a scam.

College is free and all your student loans are forgiven.

The minimum wage is 25 bucks an hour, but since he's a socialist, realizes that won't help unless rent control is established at the federal level which slashes rents by 3/4ths.

He packs the court, but lays down a plan to get rid of SCOTUS completely.

He re-introduced the Fairness Act in Reporting and this cripples the 24-hour "news" media's ability to lie to you and peddle hate speech on the air.

He expands social security so people like me are getting a THRIVING amount, rather than the "barely surviving" pittance I get now. (Joe Biden has been trying to get rid of social security, medicare, and food stamps for 40 years - look it up.)

He invests in high-paying infrastructure jobs, with one of those things being a new high speed rail system that connects all the major cities and towns.

And now, once again, like in the 50s, someone can buy a house with a regular job. Especially since landlords are probably offloading their properties in disgust.

And last but not least, we get to hear the moans and cries of those poor, poor billionaires, who are still billionaires, but it's just so unfair, so unfair, that that mean Vermont Grampa made them actually pitch in their fair so we could have a functioning society.

Now imagine all this . . . and imagine the Republicans winning another election, ever.

Imagine anyone running on a platform of doing away with any of this.

So . . . in the present situation? What would help?

Tell that decrepit Dixiecrat who had pals in the KKK and literally supported segregation and WROTE the most fascist bill of my lifetime that SPECIFICALLY TARGETS BLACK PEOPLE to step down for "health reasons" and commit themselves 100 percent to a progressive candidate who wants to help people.

But, of course, they'll have to check in with their Wall Street and arms dealer pals first to make sure it's OK