Bernie Sanders is now officially with HER.#DemsInPhilly #HesWithUs http://pic.twitter.com/HxqOjx4QA1
— Pin Head (@PiercedSkull) July 26, 2016
This whole racist-old-people-returning-us-to-fascism-before-they-die trend across the Western world is so exhausting and stressful.— Brendan Keogh (@BRKeogh) June 24, 2016
Stating that Clinton went above the heads of Pentagon generals when it came to Libya, he wrote: “Libya has been destroyed. It became a haven for ISIS. The Libyan national armory was looted and hundreds of tons of weapons were transferred to jihadists in Syria.”I post this not to single out Hillary, because certainly a vote for any Republican will have the same result, and even Bernie Sanders has sounded more militaristic on occasion than I'm comfortable with.
He went on to state that Clinton did not learn from her mistakes, and set out to repeat history in Syria.
“Having learned nothing from the Libyan disaster Hillary then set about trying do the same in Syria. Hillary’s war has increased terrorism, killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians and has set back women’s rights in the Middle East by hundreds of years,” he wrote.
No, 'Politico,' Bernie Sanders' views on the C.I.A. were not 'extreme': https://t.co/vWfNDyZA79 http://pic.twitter.com/0UnOiqRgtZ
— Esquire Magazine (@esquire) February 22, 2016
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont was declared the winner of the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary as soon as polls closed at 8 p.m. EST on Tuesday night. Results are still trickling in at the moment—some polling locations are still open to accommodate people in line at the cutoff time—but it looks like Sanders will likely defeat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by double digits.Iowa and New Hampshire are small, very white states. It's possible to read too much into this and, predictably, the hot takes are flying. That said, it's also possible to dismiss the Sanders win as nothing more than a popular neighbor winning where of course he was going to win; that's also a mistake though. The young and folks making less than $200k per year are breaking big for Bernie. Way big. Which is encouraging.
Say what you want about Bernie, it takes guts to do this in today's political climate. Good for him. https://t.co/shq6mjdVhP
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) January 27, 2016
"ABC’s World News Tonight awarded 81 minutes of national showtime to Trump last year — and for Bernie: 20 seconds" https://t.co/FSyNgjPKCC
— Apinak (@Apinak) January 11, 2016
“Bernie Sanders is unusual because he brings together three kinds of radicalism, each with very different roots.” https://t.co/eNQMZxc6F4
— NY Review of Books (@nybooks) December 28, 2015
Wow this is gonna make a great reaction GIF: https://t.co/zny99EGq4A
— NickBaumann (@NickBaumann) October 30, 2015
If you've ever enjoyed a paid vacation, a sick day or a pension the men and women of the labor movement are the people to thank. #LaborDay
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) September 8, 2015
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Taking a single passage out of context and interpreting it as the Achilles’ heel of American radicalism, scholars have distorted Debs’s complex and still poignant critique of white supremacy. That process began soon after the essay was published by the International Socialist Review, which commissioned Debs to respond to a platform adopted by the Socialist Party of Louisiana calling for “separation of the black and white races into separate communities, each race to have charge of its own affairs.”
Debs happened to be campaigning for president in Louisiana and Texas at the time, and he took the opportunity to criticize not only local bigots but the international culture of white supremacy that Rudyard Kipling celebrated four years earlier in his poem “The White Man’s Burden.” Drawing on works by African-American contemporaries including W.E.B. Du Bois, he insisted that the Socialist Party would be untrue to its mission unless it welcomed “the Negro and all other races upon absolutely equal terms.”
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Sanders genuinely, sincerely, does not care about optics. He is the rarest of Washington animals, a completely honest person. If he's motivated by anything other than a desire to use his influence to protect people who can't protect themselves, I've never seen it. Bernie Sanders is the kind of person who goes to bed at night thinking about how to increase the heating-oil aid program for the poor.We should have a long, national discussion about why Bernie can't win (but should) and what it means that we are so deeply screwed by our political system. Not a fatalist discussion that concedes the argument to the moneyed interests, but one that focuses on all the reasons he can't win are the things we should be fixing. Aggressively. Now.
SANDERS: What we have to understand is this is not just Wisconsin. This is part of the concerted attack on the middle class and working families of this country by the very wealthiest people in America, the Koch brothers and many others. And you're also right in suggesting that if you look at the end game, what are you talking about?We need to elect more Bernie Sanderses and fewer ... well, nearly every other Democrat falls into the "We Need Fewer Of You" category. It goes without saying that those stunted morally and intellectually by excess religious dogma, lack of effective public education, and a steady diet of uncritically digested corporate propaganda will continue to elect Republicans, that's going to be a long uphill battle, but on the progressive side, we can make faster progress electing people that are committed to preserving a civil society where everyone has a chance to make a meaningful life for themselves, not just the scions of wealth and privilege
You're talking about the end of Social Security, privatization of Social Security, massive cuts and privatization of Medicare, major cuts in Medicaid. You're talking about over a period of time, the end of unemployment compensation, the end of the minimum wage or lowering the minimum wage.
What these guys want is to return us to the 1920's when working people had virtually no rights to organize or to earn a decent living. Bottom line today is the top 1% earn more income than the bottom 50%. The top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 90%. That gap between the very rich and everybody else is growing wider.
And what the wealthiest people in the country are doing are using their resources to make the attack against the middle class even stronger. They want the destruction of the middle class and almost all wealth in this country to go to the people on top.
