“It’s a very radical concept...It’s called democracy”...Bernie Sanders Is Making His Pitch to Swing Voters in conservative parts of indiana & iowa

[basquebromance]

love this guy

Bernie Sanders Is Making His Pitch to Swing Voters

Bernie Sanders, who’s fighting to pass his ambitious $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill in the Senate, spent the past weekend on the road, doing something his Democratic colleagues seldom do: selling his ideas in swing states.

jacobinmag.com

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Bernie spots have been trying to salvage Newsom in California. I can hardly wait for Throw Out day.

 

[MisterBeale]

The nation is broken.

Circling the drain. This will either speed the process, or further balkanize the nation if it doesn't pass. . .


Either way, it is a win for the oligarchy.

 

[Oddball]

In Batshit Bernie's world, a one-party state = "democracy".

He's as big a fucking lunatic as ever.

 

[LuckyDuck]

When Marxist complimenting Socialist, Sanders says "Democracy," one can't help thinking of those great, fun-loving Marxist nations with the name "Democratic" or "Peoples Republic" in their title:
DEMOCRATIC PEOPLES REPUBLIC of Korea (North Korea).
Lao PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC (Laos).
PEOPLES REPUBLIC of China.
SOCIALIST REPUBLIC of Vietnam.
All very fun places where their wonderful citizens pay to be smuggled out and if they are caught, they are arrested, imprisoned and/or, executed and those that want to just leave their fun-filled nation for a vacation, can only do so, if they can show they are proper Marxists by having sufficient "social credits," thereby proving they are good card-carrying Marxist Communists.
The problem is the pro-Marxist crowd isn't really "progressive," but rather "regressive." Marxism stifles innovation, mandates a One-Political-Party system only and is oppressive, persecutory, tyrannical and murderous....very murderous (murdering political opposition, murdering their own citizens for calling out for "freedom" and murdering groups deemed unwanted).

 

[Moonglow]

The nation is broken.

Circling the drain. This will either speed the process, or further balkanize the nation if it doesn't pass. . .


Either way, it is a win for the oligarchy.

Isn't the oligarchy the only thing that matters?

They are the one's floating the nation's debt...

 

[MisterBeale]

Isn't the oligarchy the only thing that matters?

They are the one's floating the nation's debt...

Wow. .. is that what you seriously think?

. . now your posts make a lot more sense.

 

[Moonglow]

Wow. .. is that what you seriously think?

. . now your posts make a lot more sense.

Yeah, it's the wealthy which own the majority of US debt and they happen to hang out at the Federal Reserve....Why else do politicians bend to their will?

 

[The Irish Ram]

Bernie thinks taking 99% of your income is a good thing. In return Bernie will provide you with government housing and a card to buy a few things to eat...

 

[Votto]

I wonder how many more times Bernie runs for President.

My guess is more times at least.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Everybody's showing up in Iowa but they're all late to the game. Heh heh...

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Lol @ Indiana embracing an old socialist never been

 

[basquebromance]

excerpts:

“I love doing this stuff,” he told Iowans. “We talk about the real issues facing working families, and you can’t do that in a ten-second soundbite.”

Opening each event with a plea for people to get vaccinated followed by a lengthy meditation on how climate change is wreaking havoc around the world, Sanders delivered something between his campaign stump speech and a diagnosis of the “difficult times” the country is living through. After outlining the progress already made since Biden took office, he went one by one down the list of the reconciliation bill’s major provisions and what they meant for those attending, starting with “end[ing] the obscenity” of billionaires and corporations paying nothing in taxes and making the $300-a-month child tax credit checks permanent, to putting in place universal childcare and pre-K, free community college, and making massive investments in combating climate change.

He stressed repeatedly the bill wasn’t “everything I want,” and that bolder measures like Medicare for All and wholesale student debt forgiveness are where the country needs to go, but that what measures were in there were significant and “a good start.” He charged that the bill’s provision allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, for instance, “will be the first time in American history that Congress would have stood up to the pharmaceutical industry.”

it was a largely liberal, pro-Democratic crowd at both events, though some attendees with Trump paraphernalia could be seen leaving the grounds at West Lafayette after Sanders finished outlining the bill’s provisions. That particular venue was especially progressive, owing to the large number of student attendees from nearby Purdue University (“We’re going to see daddy!” one remarked excitedly before the event). Attendees whom Jacobin spoke to after the town halls were over were uniformly liberal, pro-Sanders voters.

Yet several attendees also told Jacobin that they hadn’t known what was actually in the bill before coming to the event. Chris, forty, and his wife, who asked not to be named, both campus workers at Purdue, were impressed Sanders had come to Lafayette in the first place and given ordinary people a chance to speak their minds. They appreciated that he had stressed the bill’s enormous price tag would be paid for by taxing the wealthy (“I can’t imagine what three trillion of anything even looks like,” said Chris) and believed that learning the bill’s details that night would make it easier to have conversations about it with their neighbors. They liked the focus on policy specifics, a break from the scandal-focused nature of local politics, they said.

One questioner from the audience, Xavier, a student, likewise admitted that he hadn’t known much about the bill coming into the town hall, and that it “warms my heart” to have learned about what it includes, particularly with many of his peers underwater with student debt.

He said he would “fight like hell” and “do everything I can” to keep Democratic moderates from shaving provisions off the bill (“I’ve already compromised,” he said, pointing to the $6 trillion price tag he put forward initially), and waved off concerns about Manchin and Sinema.

“I believe that at the end of the day, after a lot of negotiations, and pain… what we are going to do is pass the most comprehensive bill for working families that this country has seen in a long way with the fifty votes, plus the vice president,” he said.

Between meeting the local responsibilities of a senator, trying to stop a coming far-right electoral tidal wave, pushing the reconciliation bill along, and doing what he says he wishes he could do in “all fifty states” — talk to the public directly about it — Sanders has his work cut out for him.

Yet in spite of the country’s, and the world’s, many frightening crises, and despite his own loss of the presidential nomination last year, he remains optimistic, insisting that a “strong progressive movement” has already won victories and raised consciousness in the United States. Told by one audience member that his friends are disillusioned since his loss and no longer see the point of being politically involved, Sanders was resolute.

“I beg of those students… if there ever was a time not to sit it out, not to allow yourself to become disillusioned, this is the time,” Sanders said. “I say to all of those who supported me, thank you, but the struggle continues.”

 

[Resnic]

Unless youre an extremist democrat or a republican then everyone wants democracy. Democracy isnt rooted in republican or democrat.

Everyone on both sides wants democracy.

 

[basquebromance]

not the elites! both sides rig the elections, so the party that cheats more wins