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Honestly they need to do more of this to make a compelling reason to vote for them.

Just some key points I think they need to seriously try to enact

-legalize it

-universal healthcare

-New Deal style infrastructure programs

-re-negotiate cap and trade

Got any others?

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I'd say throw in something about student debt relief / free public college (community college or online college even).

But I think we're just back to the Senator Sanders' platform at this point. It will be interesting to see if those proposals are more appealing to the "mainstream" democratic party now that he and Clinton are out of the picture (hopefully). I'd hope so, but dems always find a way to disappoint me.

Sanders is not out of the picture. Schumer has actually included him in the senior ranks of the party.

They try all of that and are blocked at every turn.

The better question is: what are the compelling reasons to vote for the other side?

The only people I know who vote red are effectively single-issue voters. That issue? Abortion.

Really? I would expect immigration to also be an issue motivating a republican vote.

This says more about you than about people who vote “red”.

Gun rights.

Where’s the money for that?

I live in a state where the largest employers are US government projects. The have and have nots are separated by their distance to those projects. There is tourism here and other non governmental industries but none can come near them in size. The resource allocation system within the market works with government being the main source of employment. Why? Because the government has monopoly rights on making markets.

Ask not where the money comes from. Ask who else could make the market with the government maintaining exclusive rights to the currency.

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