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Originally Posted by El-mo
She scares the shit out of conservatives
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No. She provides them a solid belly laugh.
She is the dumbfuckistan polar mirror of Trump: instead of demonizing mexicans and any social progress for anyone after 1955, she demonizes anyone with literally two nickels to rub together. They both then attack those demons on twitter with an appeal to populist morons in their respective wing.
She isn't particularly scary because she doesn't ooze of being able to actually get anything done--That's also pretty Trumpy--all his populist bullshit has been stopped or thwarted for the most part--but the parts that the co-opted folks want--notably federalist judges and a tax cut have happened. She will, at best, get a similar outcome.
What makes her disturbing is that the end result of her policies (socialism) invariably ends up looking like Venezuela does today. But even this won't happen: "medicare for all" polls great--until you tell people what it will cost and what it will mean for their access to healthcare. It then craters. This is exact same reaction you get when polling "should we tax rich people" (yes!) and then polling "should the government be redistributing wealth?" (nope).
It was funny when the Democrats had Bernie doing this--he's an old fool never having had a real job, but at least he could speak for 10 minutes without sounding like a dumb fucking barista who hit the lottery (merely an aging communist radical). We could not have asked for a better standard bearer for socialism in this country on a wish or dare. She sounds like an anti-intellectual entitled millennial who wants to get her hands on other people's money.
Dumber than a bag of rocks
