Bernie Sanders on Democratic Socialism, Elizabeth Warren and the Media

[Uncle Joe]

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Speaking at George Washington University, Sanders described his campaign as a continuation of FDR’s legacy, specifically the so-called Second Bill of Rights, as enumerated in the 1944 State of the Union Address. He plans on releasing an “Economic Bill of Rights” that will essentially provide government guarantees for a living wage, affordable housing, health care and a complete education. Echoing a famous line by Roosevelt, he talked about his confrontations with corporate interests.

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In an odd way, Sanders defines his campaign by the negativity it attracts. Other campaigns that might talk the talk on issues like climate change can’t be taken seriously, Bernie Sanders tells me in a phone call from Washington, D.C., unless they “frontally confront the fossil fuel industry.” If you’re not “embattled,” you’re not real. In this vein he derides the “middle ground” platform of someone like current frontrunner Joe Biden, which Sanders says “antagonizes no one, stands up to no one, and changes nothing.”

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He pauses. “I reached the conclusion that I’m the strongest candidate to beat Donald Trump, but that wasn’t all. I wouldn’t just have to beat Trump — the goal would be to create a movement to fundamentally transform the country, so the future wouldn’t be threatened by later Trumps, either.”

Sanders then explains that the only kind of candidacy that could succeed now would be one like his own. “It won’t work,” he says, “unless you have the courage to take on the very powerful special interests that are entrenched and wield so much influence. If you want to fix the climate change problem, you can’t do it unless you frontally confront the fossil fuel industry. You want to rebuild the infrastructure? You have to take on the 1-percent, get them to pay their share.

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/bernie-sanders-democratic-socialism-elizabeth-warren-election-2020-848074/

[Kurt V.]

1. K&R this is a conversation needed. Where are we globally and at home on capitalist and fascist.

[Uncle Joe]

2. I believe Bernie's believes

Trump is itching to start a war with Iran.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/14/trump-must-not-be-allowed-use-gulf-oman-incidents-pretext-illegal-war-iran-bernie



Peace to you Kurt V.

[BeckyDem]

3. I agree with him, and it is the challenge of our time. Citizens United

sunk us deeper than ever before. Trump the con man and all his enablers, such as Mitch McConnell. The entire lot of them with only a few differing on some votes have no intentions of pursuing equity for the American worker. They want the same graft to go and on and Trump knows that about them. We must stick together to defeat the Republicans for every seat.