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ernie did get the most votes, but it was clear that Democratic voters were looking for someone less flagrantly obnoxious to the general electorate than a “progressive” Democrat. The two self-described progressives, Bernie and Elizabeth Warren, got a combined 34.9% of the vote (25.7% for Sanders, 9.2% for Warren). The “moderate” Democrats – Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and Joe Biden – got a combined 52.6% of the vote (24.4% for Buttigieg, 19.8% for Klobuchar, 8.4% for Biden). I’ve already come up with the yard sign for their campaign against Trump: BUTTIGIEG-KLOBUCHAR You Can’t Stand Him You Can’t Say Us The trouble is that there actually weren’t any moderates in the race. Every Democratic candidate who ran is a danger to America. And I don’t say this out of partisan ill-will.
I’m all in favor of Americans having a lively, continuing liberal-conservative debate. What can government do/not do? This argument makes our system work. It’s been going on since the American story began with the disagreement between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who were political bedfellows until they both got up on the wrong side of the bed. I had an aunt and uncle like that. During their entire marriage, they only had one fight. It began at the wedding reception and lasted well past their 50th anniversary. Both sides have good points to make. (I mean liberals and conservatives, not my aunt and uncle.) Conservatives are right that we don’t want the government to be our mother. If the government were our mother, it would take an act of Congress, a cabinet department, and an enormous Washington bureaucracy to change a diaper. And federal “Pampers Police” probably wouldn’t notice the smell until the kid was 22.
American Consequences
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