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> It does not make any sense to me that voters are voting for the exact opposite of Bernie (Republicans) rather than voting for someone closer to Bernie (Democr
by TaylorAlexander 4y ago
> It does not make any sense to me that voters are voting for the exact opposite of Bernie (Republicans) rather than voting for someone closer to Bernie (Democrats).
And yet this is a clearly identified phenomenon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanders%E2%80%93Trump_voters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanders%E2%80%93Trump_voters
> Yet we established in this very comment chain that Democrats have passed some significant bills against big corporate interests
I don't believe we established that? I allowed that these two bills you mentioned may have benefited labor, but that is not the same as going against big corporate interest. Certainly some labor policy would go against corporate interests (and that policy I believe is unsuccessful), but the ACA has been described as a massive government handout to insurance companies.
https://socialistworker.org/2013/10/31/paying-the-price-for-the-aca https://socialistworker.org/2013/10/31/paying-the-price-for-...