Democrats Are Afraid Of Bold, Progressive Ideas

Most of the Democrats running for President right now appear to share a common trait: They are just as afraid of change as the Republican Party. We have candidates like Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Andrew Yang, and a few others who are proposing major overhauls to this country, while other candidates keep telling us to lower our expectations and stop trying to make the world better. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Well now that both of the democratic debates are over and we're going to head into a debates with hopefully a fewer, a few fewer candidates, a the coming month or so. It's time to look back at what actually happened this week in the debates and one thing we learned is that a lot of people running for president right now are absolutely terrified of big, bold, progressive ideas. Something that Bernie Sanders himself pointed out during the Tuesday night. First round debate, Bernie said this, he said,

""I get a little bit tired of Democrats afraid of big ideas. Republicans are not afraid of big ideas — they could give $1 trillion in tax breaks to billionaires and profitable corporations, they could bail out the crooks on Wall Street, so please don't tell me we cannot take on the fossil fuel industry. Nothing happens unless we do that.""

Now in this specific instance, this was with regards to the green new deal taking on the fossil fuel industry, ending their subsidies, combating climate change and blah, blah, blah. But Bernie was speaking a little bit more broadly to here. Democrats, especially those, a lot of them, most of them that we saw up on the stage these past two nights, they're terrified of big ideas. I mean, if they had their way, the slogan for 2020 would be Democrats 2020 aim low and then try to get a little bit under that too if you could. That's what they're telling us up on the stage and it's absolutely pathetic. Look, is it possible to get Medicare for All in place on day one for the next president of the United States? Nope, it isn't. But is it something that we can work towards and probably have it in place by the end of that person's first term? Yep. 100% it is. But to listen to some of these Democrats on stage, they're telling you, nope, this can never happen.

Why even bother? Don't try to change things because everything sucks and it's always going to suck. And that seems like a lot of work and I don't want to do it. And there's a real reason why they don't want to do it. It's hard work, folks. They don't want to put in the effort. Most of the people running for president today are vanity candidates. They know they have no shot at winning the presidency but they're doing it because they want to raise their own profile. They want to raise a lot of money. They can then use that money. You know for some other things questionably cause you know you've got to fall within the law but there is some loopholes in there. They can use this money to pretty much do some things to help them out personally and that's why they're running. They have no intention of making this country better.

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