Sanders Vaults to the Lead

At this instant, Sanders is at 37 cents and Biden at 34 cents on Predictit. Running third at 13 cents is Bloomberg. Everyone else is effectively out of the race unless the party bigwigs engineer one of them as the candidate because they don’t want Sanders to win.

You can find a long list of the promises of Sanders at his official site.

This week, Hillary Clinton badmouthed Sanders and Obama let it be known that he would throw his weight against Sanders.

The old regime of Democrat leadership is out of step with the rank and file. This is also the case to some extent in the House where Pelosi has had to deal with the Squad. Democrat voters are re-defining the Democratic party as clearly socialist, and their aim to impose their socialist programs on every American is much more totalitarian in spirit and intensity than in the past when they fielded such excuses as depression, overcoming poverty and rectifying racism to justify socialist programs.

Assuming that Trump and Sanders both stay alive and in good enough health to run and hold office, Predictit makes Trump the winner in an election contest. Trump is at even money (49 cents) and Sanders is a 3-1 shot (25 cents).

Now, a footnote. At this time, Sanders does not say how much his plans would cost: “You don’t know. Nobody knows. This is impossible to predict.” Nonetheless, he is willing to say that Single-Payer Medicare for All will cost less than the current system: “Do you know exactly what healthcare costs will be…in the next ten years if we do nothing? It will be a lot more expensive than a Medicare-for-all single-payer system.”

This is Bernie logic. This is a socialist demagogue’s “logic”. He doesn’t know what current system C will cost over the next 10 years but he knows that new system S will cost less than whatever C costs. How can that be?

Bernie has no idea who will demand healthcare, in what ways, in what quantities, in what places and he has no idea who will supply healthcare in the millions upon millions of ways in wihch its components can be supplied. He has no idea what any given procedure or remedy will cost or what it will be worth someone to obtain. He has no idea what inventions and techniques may become available. He has no idea how much fraud will be in any system. And on and on. But he knows that the government should be the single-payer for health demands for everyone. This is Bernie economics. This is a socialist demagogue’s understanding of economics.

Why not simply merge America into Cuba and have done with it?

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12:58 pm on January 25, 2020