RE: Feel the Bern
March 3, 2019 at 11:01 pm
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2019 at 11:03 pm by epronovost.)
(March 2, 2019 at 9:08 pm)Yonadav Wrote: I don't think that there would be any chance at all that Bernie would ask Howard Schultz the billionaire to be his running mate. They are not ideologically compatible. Schultz is a fan of the New Dems and wants them to get back into power.
Is there really such a wide divide between the various sub-factions of the Demcratic party? I don't think so. Their biggest sticking point is basically their support for free trade vs a more protectionist approach to it. Those position can be conciliated by adding minimal wage and work conditions to negotiations about free trade and limit them to similarly developped countries like the EU, Japan, Canada, the UK and a few others. Political candidacy should not be domitated by dogmatism. It weakens the broad alliances required to win in a two party system.