2020 Democratic Primary Thread: Focus on House & Senate races

[FAH1223]

Symone

Depressing. If he makes it as the Dem nominee his enthusiasm level will be more than Hillary’s.

Do you see the progressive vote being split between Bernie and Warren and this fukktard winning? If so, how can it be prevented?

It depends really, its still too early. But the situation is ripe for someone to rise between Bernie and Biden. Warren is running a much more professional campaign than Bernie who has a bunch of amateurs it looks like. But Bernie is the onyl candidate with such a large grassroots reach.

We gotta wait until the Fall IMO

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

Warren is running a much more professional campaign than Bernie who has a bunch of amateurs it looks like.

bernie is being attacked from all sides. warren is currently being used as a cudgel against him. as soon as that either fails or succeeds, you'll see Nap and all the other centrist scum revert to supporting the establishment fully.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Why the hell is she over there for? How the hell do you go from Sanders to Biden?

She's making herself look like a fool.

Symone

 

[intra vires]

Sen. Bernie Sanders unveils plan to reform the public education system

• Combating racial discrimination and school segregation: Sanders wants to increase funding for at-risk schools, public magnet schools, the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights and Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
  
  
• Ban all for-profit charter schools: Sanders argues these schools further discriminate against more disenfranchised students and are part of a larger plan to privatize education.
  
  
• Equitable funding for public schools: Sanders wants schools to cover the cost of college-readiness exams, reexamine the link between tax property and school funding, increase resources to shrink class sizes, support the arts and foreign language studies and provide $5 billion annually for technical education.
  
  
• Strengthen the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): Sanders is proposing the government cover at least 50% of funding for special education and address the special education teacher shortage.
  
  
• Raise teacher salaries: Sanders says he will set the starting salary for teachers at $60,000, end the gender pay gap for teachers, create a grant program for school supplies and triple the tax deduction for educator expenses paid out of pocket.
  
  
• Expand after-school and summer education programs: Sanders wants to spend $5 billion annually to expand access to summer and after-school programs, teen centers and tutoring.
  
  
• Universal school meals: Sanders wants to provide year-round free school breakfast and lunch and expand summer EBT programs.
  
  
• Community schools: The Vermont senator wants $5 billion in annual funding for schools to provide a holistic approach to learning and more services such as job training, GED and ESL classes.
  
  
• School infrastructure: Sanders wants increased funding to modernize and renovate schools, and adapt them to be more environmentally friendly.
  
  
• Make schools a safe and inclusive place for all: He wants to pass legislation to protect the rights of LGBTQ students, increase protection under Title IX, pass comprehensive gun violence protection laws and ensure immigrant children aren't harassed

Equitable Funding for Public Schools
In America today, most school districts are funded out of local property tax revenue, resulting in unconscionable inequalities. The federal government, by conditioning funding on standardized test scores, has worsened the disparities between school districts and among states. Since school districts are funded out of local property taxes, less is invested in the education of children from low-income families compared with their more affluent peers. In America, the quality of a child’s education should not and cannot depend on their zip code.

As president, Bernie Sanders will fight to equitably fund our schools. He will:

• Rethink the link between property taxes and education funding.
• Establish a national per-pupil spending floor.
• Eliminate barriers to college-readiness exams by ensuring states cover fees for the ACT, SAT and other college preparatory exams for all students.
• Triple Title I funding to ensure at-risk schools get the funding they need and end funding penalties for schools that attempt to desegregate.
• Provide schools with the resources needed to shrink class sizes.
• Provide $5 billion annually for career and technical education to give our students the skills they need to thrive once they graduate.
• Ensure schools in rural communities, indigenous communities, Puerto Rico and other U.S. Territories receive equitable funding.
• Give schools the funding needed to support arts, foreign language and music education to provide all students with important learning opportunities.

This is huge. @FAH1223 bless us with that smilie.

 

[King Kreole]

bernie is being attacked from all sides. warren is currently being used as a cudgel against him. as soon as that either fails or succeeds, you'll see Nap and all the other centrist scum revert to supporting the establishment fully.

Bernie sure as shyt isn't getting attacked from all sides, he's being treated with kid gloves by the left. He's facing, more or less, the same oppositional forces he faced in 2016. In fact, he's probably being treated better now than he was back then because he's one of the legit frontrunners. Warren has a broader ideological coalition than Bernie does. She can unite the party in a march towards progressivism. I'm not sure Bernie can.

 

[King Kreole]

Equitable Funding for Public Schools
In America today, most school districts are funded out of local property tax revenue, resulting in unconscionable inequalities. The federal government, by conditioning funding on standardized test scores, has worsened the disparities between school districts and among states. Since school districts are funded out of local property taxes, less is invested in the education of children from low-income families compared with their more affluent peers. In America, the quality of a child’s education should not and cannot depend on their zip code.

As president, Bernie Sanders will fight to equitably fund our schools. He will:

• Rethink the link between property taxes and education funding.
• Establish a national per-pupil spending floor.
• Eliminate barriers to college-readiness exams by ensuring states cover fees for the ACT, SAT and other college preparatory exams for all students.
• Triple Title I funding to ensure at-risk schools get the funding they need and end funding penalties for schools that attempt to desegregate.
• Provide schools with the resources needed to shrink class sizes.
• Provide $5 billion annually for career and technical education to give our students the skills they need to thrive once they graduate.
• Ensure schools in rural communities, indigenous communities, Puerto Rico and other U.S. Territories receive equitable funding.
• Give schools the funding needed to support arts, foreign language and music education to provide all students with important learning opportunities.

This is huge. @FAH1223 bless us with that smilie.

ok this food, Bernard heating up

 

[Piffery]

Why the hell is she over there for? How the hell do you go from Sanders to Biden?

She's making herself look like a fool.

She was a mole to the DNC on Bernie's campaign.

 

[wtfyomom]

if the centrists thought Warren could win theyd never hype her this much and the idea shes clearly better than bernie when her foreign policy sucks and she wont push for m4a is laughable. we see you centrists.

 

[wtfyomom]

All the people pointing out that she has a plan for everything. I'm mostly directing that at the media. It's not a campaign critique. It's a smart campaign tactic. It's moreso about how annoyed with the media I'm becoming.

yeah its not about warren, its how shes being used, i dont buy for a second the people hyping her now actually support her ideas. not everyone but i mean the disingenuous centrists.

 

[wtfyomom]

i really hope this guy fades, it literally would mean the party wasnt pushed to the left at all, even in lip service, if this pos wins the nom

 

[King Kreole]

if the centrists thought Warren could win theyd never hype her this much and the idea shes clearly better than bernie when her foreign policy sucks and she wont push for m4a is laughable. we see you centrists.

I mean, Bernie's foreign policy sucks as well. He has a better instinct on it than Liz does, but the amount of daylight between his FP and her FP really isn't as large as certain Bernie fans on twitter make it out to be. But anyway, this is America, there is no candidate (except for Gravel) who is going to overnight eradicate the military industrial complex or America's imperialist underpinnings. And Liz is a cosponsor of M4A btw.

yeah its not about warren, its how shes being used, i dont buy for a second the people hyping her now actually support her ideas. not everyone but i mean the disingenuous centrists.

This type of thinking is dangerously close to validating the Bernie Bro cult of personality charges that come from centrists. As progressives, we should follow principles and values, not engage in conspiratorial thinking to justify Bernie getting outworked and outflanked. His poll numbers are dropping because he's been running a pretty lackluster campaign so far. Liz's numbers have been rising because she's been consistently killing it. She's simply running a better campaign than him. If Bernie wants the nomination, he needs to earn it. He's has been doing really well over the past few days though, and I hope he keeps it up. That education platform was what I've been looking for from Bernie this whole time

 

[wtfyomom]

I mean, Bernie's foreign policy sucks as well. He has a better instinct on it than Liz does, but the amount of daylight between his FP and her FP really isn't as large as certain Bernie fans on twitter make it out to be. But anyway, this is America, there is no candidate (except for Gravel) who is going to overnight eradicate the military industrial complex or America's imperialist underpinnings. And Liz is a cosponsor of M4A btw.


This type of thinking is dangerously close to validating the Bernie Bro cult of personality charges that come from centrists. As progressives, we should follow principles and values, not engage in conspiratorial thinking to justify Bernie getting outworked and outflanked. His poll numbers are dropping because he's been running a pretty lackluster campaign so far. Liz's numbers have been rising because she's been consistently killing it. She's simply running a better campaign than him. If Bernie wants the nomination, he needs to earn it. He's has been doing really well over the past few days though, and I hope he keeps it up. That education platform was what I've been looking for from Bernie this whole time

i just dont buy that centrists really like her thats all, shes my second choice and it will stay that way unless she passes bernie imo but i dont see that only because i dont like her foreign policy and dont think she will push for m4a but id still be happy to vote for her, which is saying a lot, didnt liz just vote for the military increase and co sponser doesnt necessarily mean she will push for it once in power but we will see.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Like I said, Hillary part deaux. “Stronger together”

 

[wtfyomom]

Like I said, Hillary part deaux. “Stronger together”

nightmare

 

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