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Mnementh said: 
HylianSwordsman said:
I love that Yang has brought up these subjects, so he'll be great to have in the debates. He's already had an effect, actually. Bernie has begun talking about automation. Not sure if anyone else has in the 2020 field, but AOC has started talking about taxing robots, the same idea Bill Gates had to fund a UBI. She'll probably be a future candidate alongside Yang, debating how to best do a UBI program, sometime in the future when automation has begun to really take its toll and made the current economic model unsustainable.

AOC is a good politician to look out for in the future, I have high hopes in her. On the other side I got high hopes in Obama, and it turned out he acted more centrist and less change and hope than I expected.

She's been rocking the boat, which I take to be a good sign. Obama talked a big game, but there wasn't a lot of action behind his words before his run for President, and if we'd looked a little harder, we'd have seen that. Same with O'Rourke today, but people have learned their lesson and are already onto him. It's why Bernie has such a following. He stuck to his beliefs and policies for his entire career, even when doing so left him on the political sidelines for decades. AOC looks like the start of that. We'll get a good half decade out of her before she's even eligible for a Presidential run, so we'll see if she turns out more like Bernie or more like Obama. I'm hopeful based on what I'm seeing so far.