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betsuni

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17. Yes!

Reply to Nixie (Reply #16)

Fri Mar 5, 2021, 08:04 AM

Mar 2021

Thank you. Incrementalism was very very bad. The myth that Teddy Roosevelt, FDR and LBJ were democratic socialists and Democrats have shifted to the right or whatever. No.

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📺 @BernieSanders tonight at 6pm ET will join @NewsHour . [View all] Donkees Mar 2021 OP

"We're not talking about raising the minimum wage right now ... it's a five year process." betsuni Mar 2021 #1

Sanders' Raise The Wage Acts always had a multi-year phase-in periods. Celerity Mar 2021 #2

Not the point. betsuni Mar 2021 #3

It is the point. You were trying to make a analogy that was faulty in terms Celerity Mar 2021 #4

Anyone familiar with Bernie Sanders knows he thinks incrementalism is bad. betsuni Mar 2021 #5

Chalk and cheese. nt Celerity Mar 2021 #6

Anyone familiar with Bernie Sanders and his supporters knows incrementalism is bad. betsuni Mar 2021 #7

that is not germane to the error made in the comparative components of your initial reply Celerity Mar 2021 #8

No. betsuni Mar 2021 #9

Simply saying 'no' doesn't change anything. I have meticulously shown what I meant vis-a-vis Celerity Mar 2021 #10

"meticulously" betsuni Mar 2021 #11

'carefully', if you prefer that for the adverb Celerity Mar 2021 #12

No. betsuni Mar 2021 #13

I think it should be welcomed, from a far left that that has always wanted what they wanted and when OnDoutside Mar 2021 #14

Yes, now that Bernie is officially the Democratic establishment and we don't have to pretend he betsuni Mar 2021 #15

Oh yeah. There is a whole rehab of him going on with Nixie Mar 2021 #16

Yes! betsuni Mar 2021 #17

Yup, a lot of myth busting going on. Nixie Mar 2021 #19

Rep. Sanders H.R.2812 - Minimum Wage Restoration Act 2001 Donkees Mar 2021 #18

Incrementalism is good. Better is good, as PBO has said. OnDoutside Mar 2021 #20