Being a Hillary or Obama critic does not make him qualified to be President. The guy basically admitted that he didn't have a plan to break up the banks. I guarantee you that Hillary would if it were a central theme of her campaign.

If he believes that he should say it. You know why he won't? He's a career politician who has never offered any alternatives to the policies of the status quo. His knowledge of these things appears to be limited to rehearsed soundbites. That's truly pathetic after 40 years as a politician and nearly 30 in Washington.

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I'm not sure what part of the interview you are referencing, but Sanders' responses about Wall Street were largely correct and logical.

The notion that he is uninformed on this matter stems from the misguided nature of the questions he was asked--or at least the assumptions governing them.

Sanders was right in asserting that Dodd-Frank gives the Treasury a great deal of authority to divide big banks into smaller entities. This power is derived from the position the Secretary of the Treasury occupies as chair of the Financial Stability Oversight Council.

While the Federal Reserve also has partial authority to break up big banks under Dodd-Frank, the follow-up question about the Federal Reserve was not relevant to Sanders' initial statement. Based on the way the question was asked, it's not clear the questioner understands the distinction between the Fed and the Treasury.

Sanders' belief that the president should not decide how a large financial institution is subdivided makes sense--at least based on recent historical precedent. When the federal government deemed AT&T a monopoly in the 1980s, for example, it was reconfigured based on a plan formulated by the company's leadership. The government simply set a size limit that the new companies could not exceed following break up.

You are over-rating Bernie's influence.
He may be stealing votes, but I would bet 7 out of 10 Democratic voters still think only the Republicans are owned by Corporate America. Ask them right now and they'd say the current POTUS isn't one of those corporate puppets.

The GOP will implode and the Democratic party will flourish. No one is taking it back.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

So the guy who has criticized Dodd Frank and wants to get rid of Dodd Frank is now going to use Dodd Frank? He sounded clueless.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

You just saying things does not make them true...

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/6/1 ... -Us-Lately

"DA VETS"?

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WILL. NOT. HAPPEN.

The people started a movement. It just happened to be behind a guy that wasn't a believer himself. The kids will go away after the election just like they did in 2008.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

There is a reason that Bernie is pulling in 70-80% of the under-40 vote.

Many of the "kids" who supported Obama became involved with Occupy, Black Lives Matter, and the Sanders campaign. The kids haven't gone away yet, and seem to be getting more radical as time passes.

The fact that he built his economic policy around giving them a bunch of free stuff?

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That's not at all a broad brush. I'm sure there isn't a single Bernie supporter alive who just likes him because they think he's principled or that he isn't bought and paid for. It's just all the "free stuff."

That's not at all a broad brush. I'm sure there isn't a single Bernie supporter alive who just likes him because they think he's principled or that he isn't bought and paid for. It's just all the "free stuff."

He isn't principled. He has been bought and paid for by the Democratic Party. What's left?

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It's one of the primary messages of his whole campaign. I think it's ok to say that it is one of the major reasons for his support by that age group.

Do we honestly think that the under 40 crowd says "I've been waiting all my life for a candidate who will do a microtax on every stock trade"?

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It's one of the primary messages of his whole campaign. I think it's ok to say that it is one of the major reasons for his support by that age group.

Do we honestly think that the under 40 crowd says "I've been waiting all my life for a candidate who will do a microtax on every stock trade"?

His message resonates with the group of people, under 40 or not, who believe the economy is rigged in favor of the ultra wealthy. That's a message more about accountability before the law and fairness than it is about handouts.

You are underrating Bernie as a vessel for the expression of deep political anger within the Democratic party.

There is a reason that Bernie is pulling in 70-80% of the under-40 vote.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

You know, it's okay to talk about why your candidate is good rather than just taking personal attacks at the other guy (many of which are nonsensical). I know that's not how Hillary operates, but maybe her supporters can.

Why should I believe this though?

He is the one who chose to make a large part of his platform about handouts. Is it not fair to think that many under 40 looked at those things and said "Ok, that is great. I like this Sanders guy!".

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This renders him to be nothing more than a run of the mill protest candidate. In the immortal words of one Hawk Harrelson " he is all hat no cattle".

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

As long as you're comfortable making sweeping generalizations without a single fact, statistic, or even anecdotal evidence to support your point.

I don't know the ages of many, but vegan, RPB, and myself are all sub-40 Bernie "supporters." Do you think we just want free stuff?

So the guy who has criticized Dodd Frank and wants to get rid of Dodd Frank is now going to use Dodd Frank? He sounded clueless.

Changing laws and policies that favor the ultra rich
vs.
Handouts for all


Are these the same thing?

Do we want to change the rigged for ultra rich system?

Is it rigged?

So you do you think his platform of handouts is bad?

It seems like you guys are saying "It's unfair to concentrate on X, instead concentrate on Y" when both of them are major components of his platform.

This is a pretty high standard

If you have any critique of part of an existing law or regulation, you must never use it under any circumstances?

I thought it was pretty clear I was questioning your assessment of his platform as being "handouts"

I think a lot of his support comes from that.

I'm just unlikely to believe that so many young people are like "Microtaxes on stock trades! Hell yes!".

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What? You keep saying that like it's insightful, but you're just boiling down his entire message to microtaxes on stocks. It doesn't even make sense. Are they allowed to care about any of his platform that's not just microtaxes on stock trades?