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2) He has little executive experience. He has been in Congress, but never held leadership roles. He served as Chair of the Senate VA Committee for 2 years. Before Congress, he was mayor of Burlington, VT, a town of 42k.
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Is experience necessarily a good thing? Hillary Clinton may have more "experience" then Bernie Sanders, but that "experience" involved things such as bombing Libya to pieces against the UN mandate, allowing ISIL to take control over large parts of the country.
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3) He greatly wants to expand government spending and increase taxes. While I think his goals are laudable, I think he is outside what most people would be comfortable with. Bernie Sanders's single-payer plan is almost twice as expensive as he says
4) He wants large tax increases. That may be necessary, but the last time Democrats ran a nominee who called for large tax increases was in 1984. Mondale was right, Reagan did raise taxes in 1986, but Reagan won 49 states because of it, including Vermont.
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Taxes should certainly be raised - for millionaires, billionaires and multi-national corporations.
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5) He is not a member of the Democratic Party. He is listed as an Independent, but he is actually a member of the Socialist Party.
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Do you have a source for that last bit? And how is it relevant?
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1. Old people? You have to worry because if they die the next in line holds the key.
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So people should vote for some terrible politician because this decent one is old? Even if he does die mid-term, he'll still have a vice-president to take over.
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3. Smeenus. **** your straw-man counterargument. What's with all of this integrity BS?
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In a representative democracy, people should be able to trust their representatives.
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She has a chance of getting **** done. Bernie? No ****ing way. The establishment (we built it no matter how hard we wanna deny it) hate him.
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Which **** is she able to get done that Bernie Sanders isn't? It can't be very good, if the establishment supports it.