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Showing Original Post only (View all)Thank you, Bernie!! -- Bernie Sanders Shares His Blueprint for Resisting Trump [View all]
The man is on a mission. And it shows.
Bernie Sanders Shares His Blueprint for Resisting Trump
http://www.alternet.org/activism/bernie-sanders-tells-rachel-maddow-how-resistance-was-instrumental-delaying-gops-health
Republican leadership failed to secure enough votes from Congress Thursday to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) attributes its failure to a burgeoning resistance movement.
On Thursday, the Vermont senator explained how civic engagement translates into policy changes in the nation's capital.
"Republicans historically had their town meetings. Thirty or 50 of their friends would show up, and they talked about cutting the deficit and cutting Social Security and Medicare, and everybody would applaud," he told Rachel Maddow Thursday. "But now you've seen people coming and saying, if you do this, my wife is going to die and I'm not going to let you do that."
http://www.alternet.org/activism/bernie-sanders-tells-rachel-maddow-how-resistance-was-instrumental-delaying-gops-health
Republican leadership failed to secure enough votes from Congress Thursday to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) attributes its failure to a burgeoning resistance movement.
On Thursday, the Vermont senator explained how civic engagement translates into policy changes in the nation's capital.
"Republicans historically had their town meetings. Thirty or 50 of their friends would show up, and they talked about cutting the deficit and cutting Social Security and Medicare, and everybody would applaud," he told Rachel Maddow Thursday. "But now you've seen people coming and saying, if you do this, my wife is going to die and I'm not going to let you do that."
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Thank you, Bernie!! -- Bernie Sanders Shares His Blueprint for Resisting Trump [View all]
Hassin Bin Sober
Mar 2017
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Much credit goes to the former congressional staffers who put together Indivisible.... so they could
bettyellen
Mar 2017
#1
Yes, Indivisible did an awesome job getting people to Town Halls and getting people calling.
seaglass
Mar 2017
#7
Credit goes to Ezra Levin and Sarah Greenberg, Angel Padilla and other Congressional staffers too.
Tatiana
Mar 2017
#4
This may be the best time ever for Dems to wrestle rep voters away from the Rep party...
Talk Is Cheap
Mar 2017
#5
He's also part of our DEMOCRATIC Leadership - our Chairman of Outreach!
beam me up scottie
Mar 2017
#14
That's funny, Nurse Jackie posted this about a Democratic Senator here on DU just a few days ago:
George II
Mar 2017
#13
Setting a great example of civic engagement.....one of Bernie's strong points.
democrank
Mar 2017
#10
Actually, it was Congressional staffers who got Indivisible going. Not Sanders.
KittyWampus
Mar 2017
#17
But he's in charge of Indivisible, and the Resistance, and Emerge and PantSuit Nation!
synergie
Mar 2017
#21
Um, the attacks come from Sanders first and foremost. You agree with that, right?
randome
Mar 2017
#34
Yeah, those that enjoy attacking progressives, Democrats and the party see these attacks
synergie
Mar 2017
#42
Ok so you reply to a post thanking you for being reasonable by going on the attack?
Kentonio
Mar 2017
#89
Well, at least you dropped the pretense to "reasonable" attempts at "discussion".
synergie
Mar 2017
#121
"Bernie is on a book tour, to sell books, he's not engaging in a one man revival tour." WHAT?
FDRsGhost
Mar 2017
#94
I'll leave it up to you to figure out how PR works in an age where bookstores live on the internet.
synergie
Mar 2017
#102
The Chicago Tribune and Seattle Times, among other media outlets, reported on it:
George II
Mar 2017
#139
I honestly have no idea, I said he was on a book tour, and your friend who shares your love of
synergie
Mar 2017
#117
Bless your heart, you got me down for somethign you made up why pretend it's my participation at all
synergie
Mar 2017
#126
I see the entire argument that Sanders is responsible for defeating Trumpcare
BainsBane
Mar 2017
#44
News tends to be slower on the weekend so it's good we have the Us vs. Them to fall back on.
jalan48
Mar 2017
#45
They can stop tomorrow, if the attacks on the party stop. Democrats are not "feeble". Democrats...
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#60
It's difficult to imagine that ANYONE would be motivated to support a party that was "feeble"...
NurseJackie
Mar 2017
#66
Yeah!! And Remember that time Bernie Sanders called the DNC under DWS "worthless"?
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2017
#68
They're gathered in a politico article that has been much discussed, and they're from throughout
synergie
Mar 2017
#85
Yes, everyone including Tom Perez agrees that DWS did an atrocious job.
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2017
#147
That's not the gist of the excerpt I posted. You misrepresented my excerpt. And...
George II
Mar 2017
#148
The amendment says nothing about dragging "grannies off to prison for eating pot brownies"....
George II
Mar 2017
#150
It says the DEA should leave medical marijuana patients alone in states that have legalized medical
Warren DeMontague
Mar 2017
#151
Not difficult to find, if you need the links so badly, please google, and you'll find them easily.
synergie
Mar 2017
#86
It is the custom on the DU to provide the links in support of your opinion when posting
Omaha Steve
Mar 2017
#112
Oh, if you've been here a few years and have a star, it's the custom to demand links
synergie
Mar 2017
#120
As polite as you have been to others like me supporting Bernie in this thread
Omaha Steve
Mar 2017
#122
I've been nothing but polite, but you and others don't sem to extend that courtesy to me.
synergie
Mar 2017
#129
Sure, why let definitions and actual understanding the words and the intent get in the way of
synergie
Mar 2017
#84