You are agreeing with points there and then the next breath you’re attacking it as a manifesto of leftist tropes.The fact that you think it reads like a Bernie mailer tells me number one you don’t know what Bernie’s platform is, and two you’re not reading it objectively.
And actually the point is to encourage a constructive dialogue. For a person on one side of this war to state very simplistically what he or she believes, and then for readers to decide do I agree or do I disagree and if I disagree why. I do believe most Americans will read that and largely agree if not entirely agree with the basic points. How we achieve those fairly universal ideals is where the debate should be, as reb said.You actually seem threatened by This maybe because it doesn’t portray liberals as you like to think of them.