It seems like Democrats have finally begun to make some good trouble and ruffle some pampered feathers. Among them, former Starbucks CEO and billionaire Howard Schultz.
Howard Schultz’s advisers have a message for the former Starbucks chief‘s critics: Schultz could be the fail-safe plan in the event Democrats nominate a far-left candidate in 2020. — www.politico.com/...
and how does Schultz define “far left”?
Schultz had this to say: "It concerns me that so many voices within the Democratic Party are going so far to the left. I say to myself, 'How are we going to pay for these things,' in terms of things like single payer (and) people espousing the fact that the government is going to give everyone a job." — www.investors.com/…
Hang on a second, who gave Schultz the idea that single payer healthcare was a “far-left” issue for Democrats? 85% of Democrats and 52% of Republicans support Medicare for All. Together, they’re 70% of the country. Maybe, just maybe, we are a “far left” country as Schultz suggests. Perhaps the thing that has kept us to from realizing these “far left” policy objectives are plutocrats like Schultz who work to undermine the common interest.
Schultz went on to say that the greatest threat domestically to the country is "this $21 trillion debt hanging over the cloud of America and future generations. The only way we're going to get out of that is we've got to grow the economy, in my view, 4% or greater. And then we have to go after entitlements." — www.investors.com/...
Ah right, another wildly popular position among Democrats, cutting earned benefits such as social security, which right wingers love to malign as “entitlements”.
With this platform, Schultz is more likely to drain votes form Trump, so maybe he should run and see where that gets him.
Where does this guy get his polling data from, the country club? Because 60% of Americans support AOC’s proposal to add a 70% tax bracket for income above 10 million a year. That support rises to 71% among Democrats.
— @subirgrewal