Opinion Of Bernie Sanders

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HP. Someone who has never held a real job besides public office shouldn't be dictating to others how they should best run their businesses, healthcare, and lives. Whenever, in townhall debates, Bernie is confronted by real people who would be harmed by his policies, he, like some worn-down, left wing robot, reverts to his talking points about the "millionehz and billionehz".

I have a certain respect for him, in that I don't think he's nearly as corrupt as the average politician, but his actual policy proposals would be awful for the country.

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HP. Someone who has never held a real job besides public office shouldn't be dictating to others how they should best run their businesses, healthcare, and lives. Whenever, in townhall debates, Bernie is confronted by real people who would be harmed by his policies, he, like some worn-down, left wing robot, reverts to his talking points about the "millionehz and billionehz".

I have a certain respect for him, in that I don't think he's nearly as corrupt as the average politician, but his actual policy proposals would be awful for the country.

Bernie has had many types of jobs. They include carpenter, farmer, filmmaker, writer, non-profit director, campaign worker, as well as his elected positions.

Perhaps what I said was a bit of an exaggeration, but the point remains that before becoming Mayor of Burlington, Senator Sanders was largely an angry left-wing couch surfer who could never keep a steady job nor contribute to the economy in any productive way.

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/bernie-sanders-the-bum-who-wants-your-money/

I'm aware that in the grand scheme of things, this is not very important, but I think it speaks to his complete lack of knowledge as to how the economy actually functions.

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HP. Someone who has never held a real job besides public office shouldn't be dictating to others how they should best run their businesses, healthcare, and lives. Whenever, in townhall debates, Bernie is confronted by real people who would be harmed by his policies, he, like some worn-down, left wing robot, reverts to his talking points about the "millionehz and billionehz".

I have a certain respect for him, in that I don't think he's nearly as corrupt as the average politician, but his actual policy proposals would be awful for the country.

Bernie has had many types of jobs. They include carpenter, farmer, filmmaker, writer, non-profit director, campaign worker, as well as his elected positions.

Perhaps what I said was a bit of an exaggeration, but the point remains that before becoming Mayor of Burlington, Senator Sanders was largely an angry left-wing couch surfer who could never keep a steady job nor contribute to the economy in any productive way.

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/bernie-sanders-the-bum-who-wants-your-money/

I'm aware that in the grand scheme of things, this is not very important, but I think it speaks to his complete lack of knowledge as to how the economy actually functions.

I appreciate your logic, but we have had other Presidents that basically have done nothing with their lives other than be politicians and have been tremendously successful in their political jobs and sensitive to the realities of regular working folks.

FDR, for instance, worked a real job for less than two years before going into politics and had a prissy, entitled upbringing where he never had to do any real work, but turned out to be great for whatever reason.

And of course you can occasionally have rags to riches people with a delusional view of their own success and how it was A) 100% due to their own will and not any exogenous factors and B) reproducable for every single other person if they work hard enough (cough*Reagan*cough).

One thing that benefits Sanders in his background is the relative poverty and poor health that his parents struggled through when he was a kid.

Well, my point is not that every politician needs to be some master businessman or great economic mind. I'm simply saying that those politicians who seek to massively change the economic system of the country should at least have some experience and knowledge in how the system actually works. And while we're talking about FDR, he wasn't exactly known as an economic genius; things like the Agricultural Adjustment Act come to mind...