Bernie Sanders as President

Con has chosen to completely ignore my two main arguments. I'm baffled, frankly. That"s a first. Instead Con has chosen to play semantics games, claiming that I have not provided any reason why Bernie Sanders should be President. On the contrary. Anyone with an ounce of common sense would know that that is patently false. Bernie Sanders understand the problems currently facing the United States of America and the solutions necessary to fix those problems. I provided both the problems, persuasively, supported by evidence, and the solutions, persuasively, supported by evidence. That is the definition of argumentation. Con may continue to pursue his semantics games further if he wishes but he will be only entertaining himself. As to Con's own arguments: "1. Bernie Sander's economic plan is unrealistic and overly optimistic." Almost every other major country in the world provides healthcare to all people as a right. There is no reason why the wealthiest country in the history of the world cannot do the same. Not only that, Bernie's plan is the most economically accurate and competent, lowering poverty, creating more jobs, and overall increasing economic growth [3] Kenneth Thorpe's analysis has been discredited because it wrongly assumes key aspects while at the same time ignoring other aspects of Sanders' plan. To paraphrase, it does not factor in cost savings of the Medicare-For-All healthcare system, assumes huge increases in the utilization of the healthcare system, ignores large savings to State and local governments, ignores the tax subsidies that currently support existing insurance companies, and assumes zero-cost savings under Sanders' plan on prescription drugs and devices [1] Secondly, the Tax Foundation's Analysis has been discredited for relying on flawed research and many factual inaccuracies including incorrectly stating high corporate tax rates when the opposite is in fact true.[2] Furthermore, Former Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton"s administration has supported Sanders' plan and believes it is the best plan that would increase economic growth and lower unemployment. [3] He has also said the plan may be large in scale but it is definitely not unrealistic. [4] "2. Bernie Sanders would not be able to enact any of his policies, he has relatively little support." Unequivocally false. Bernie Sanders had no name recognition at the beginning of his campaign and out of the three recent national polls, two of them have him in the lead. [5] Secondly, his policies are popular with the majority of Americans. Poll after poll shows that the vast majority of Americans want a Medicare-for-all healthcare system. Vast majority of Americans want to see a raise in the minimum wage. Vast majority of American want to see the top 1% pay more in taxes. Vast majority of American want to see tuition free public colleges and universities. The claim that Sanders" policies have very little support is factually inaccurate. "Only 26% of republicans have said that they would ever support a socialist. Overall, 53% said they would never support a socialist." There was no source provided for this claim and the percentages simply do not correlate with national and state polls on general election matchups. In virtually all of the polls done in the last two months, Bernie Sanders beats all of the remaining candidates (Trump, Cruz, and Kasich) by large margins, while Clinton beats the GOP candidates by small margins, sometimes even losing to them [6] "Bernie would not be able to ennact any of these laws without approval of Congress." True. Congress must actually vote to pass these laws. This is why he has called for a political revolution where tens of millions of Americans stand up and fight for the change he is proposing. Change always happens from the bottom up. It always takes places when the American people in large numbers demand that change. Is it a fact that Congress does not listen to the needs and wishes of the American people? Yes. But if millions of Americans demand change, demand that Congress start listening to them, not only will the most conservative members of Congress vote YES on Bernie's policies, they'll do it with a smile. [1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com... [2] http://ctj.org... [3] http://robertreich.org... [4] http://observer.com... [5] http://www.realclearpolitics.com... [6] http://www.realclearpolitics.com...