{"id":2542,"date":"2020-02-26T10:30:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T17:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2020-02-26T17:22:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T00:22:56","slug":"bernie-sanders-dominating-in-california-primary-polling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2542","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Dominating in California Primary Polling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Written by Michael Palomba\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Democratic Party is shifting more and more to the left at a rapid pace. This comes as the state is falling apart, largely due to its socialistic policies. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From homelessness to income inequality and, of course, corruption, the state is facing massive issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bloomberg News published an article in November 2019 titled <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-11-07\/america-s-biggest-problems-are-intensified-in-california\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">America&#8217;s Biggest Problems are Intensified in California<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and that&#8217;s a fairly true statement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we\u2019ve reported, the homeless population of California is easily the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/2020\/01\/__trashed-2\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">largest in the country<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. If fact, there was a nationwide decrease in homelessness in 2019 if you exclude California, but the increase in our state negated the decrease everywhere else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, as shifting to the left generates more and more problems, Democrats are racing as far left as possible. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ppic.org\/press-release\/sanders-leads-in-californias-democratic-presidential-primary\/?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=6dfd765207-WHATMATTERS_NEWSLETTER&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_faa7be558d-6dfd765207-150295431&amp;mc_cid=6dfd765207&amp;mc_eid=0940d9728a\">polling<\/a> from the Public Policy Institute of California, socialist candidate Bernie Sanders is gaining massive support in California.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sanders has a significant lead over everyone, while the other leading candidates are clustered around 12 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This should be alarming for Democrats and Republicans alike. Bernie Sanders is perhaps the most far-left candidate to ever run for president, and he has normalized the idea of socialism in the U.S. in a way that hasn&#8217;t been the case since prior to World War II.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are some of his policies:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Medicare-for-All:<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> While there\u2019s no debate that &#8220;free&#8221; healthcare would be great, nothing is free. Bernie has repeatedly dodged questions on how he would pay for his plan, which is estimated to cost upwards of $40 trillion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Green New Deal:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sanders&#8217; campaign website describes this as \u201cTransforming our energy system.\u201d Specifically, making it 100 percent renewable energy-based. This, like Medicare-for-All, would be massively expensive along with being destructive to countless industries and professions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Free College:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The story here is the same as Medicare-for-All. Free college would be great, but nothing is free and in the end, everyone will pay for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And these are just a few of his many costly and unrealistic policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sanders has said that a \u201cwealth tax\u201d will contribute to funding his plans, but this is a problem for several reasons. First, a wealth tax simply isn\u2019t enough to pay for everything he wants to do. So middle-class taxes would inevitably increase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other issue with his wealth tax is that it would make the U.S. even harder to do business in. California is facing an exodus of business (and people) due to its high tax rates and other anti-business policies. If policies similar to these were implemented nationwide, I would hate to see how the economy would do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The truth of the matter is Sanders and his supporters believe the country needs to be torn down and rebuilt from the ground up. They believe it\u2019s a flawed and racist place filled with greedy capitalists, and they want to put a stop to it. But this just isn\u2019t the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This country has always been great and is one of the least racist, most prosperous nations in the world. And under President Trump\u2019s leadership, the American strength that was lost under Obama is back, both domestically and internationally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unemployment is at record lows (including minority and women), the economy is at new highs and breaks records constantly, the border is being secured (something Democrats were on board with for decades but quickly became against once Trump got elected), the military is rebuilt, and America is respected again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/photogism\/27049490811\/in\/photolist-HdgHee-GU6h7h-HjjzXT-GU6c3Q-GoYbXF-HdgyKv-GoPwVf-Hgo6Vb-GoYk3P-GoPEEd-GoPEf5-GU6aLS-GoPvFb-GoPvih-GU6gfh-HjjBWx-x9uKKV-x8WUsc-2h4jaLF-2h4jakW-2h4mLNE-2h4kXcB-2h4kZLj-2h4m1r7-2h4mHvN-2h4kY4w-2h4mHJi-2h4j7wE-2h4javW-2h4m2qr-2h4mLtB-2h4mKvV-2h4j7YM-2h4kXKF-2h4kXt3-2h4kZno-2h4mKkV-2h4mKKC-2h4kXB9-2h4j88E-2h4j98L-2h4m1Av-2h4mKbS-2h4mLAR-NYb4sc-N13i4F-N142TZ-N13v9x-N13ZMV-N1khYs\">Photo by Shelly Prevost via Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Michael Palomba\u00a0 The Democratic Party is shifting more and more to the left at a rapid pace. This comes as the state is falling apart, largely due to its socialistic policies. From homelessness to income inequality and, of course, corruption, the state is facing massive issues. Bloomberg News published an article in November&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bernie Sanders Dominating in California Primary Polling - San Diego News Desk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2542\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bernie Sanders Dominating in California Primary Polling - San Diego News Desk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Written by Michael Palomba\u00a0 The Democratic Party is shifting more and more to the left at a rapid pace. 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