Posted on Jun 8, 2016
'The Struggle Continues': Sanders Refuses to Bend the Knee to Establishment
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I may be a sucker but I find this inspiring.
"If this campaign has taught us anything," he told an enthusiastic and cheering crowd in Santa Monica, California just after 10:30 pm local time, "it has proven that millions of Americans who love this country are prepared to stand up and fight to make this country a much better place."
"If this campaign has taught us anything," he told an enthusiastic and cheering crowd in Santa Monica, California just after 10:30 pm local time, "it has proven that millions of Americans who love this country are prepared to stand up and fight to make this country a much better place."
'The Struggle Continues': Sanders Refuses to Bend the Knee to Establishment
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From Robert Reich:
Your message – about the necessity of single-payer healthcare, free tuition at public universities, a $15 minimum wage, busting up the biggest Wall Street banks, taxing the financial speculation, expanding Social Security, imposing a tax on carbon, and getting big money out of politics – will shape the progressive agenda from here on.
Your courage in taking on the political establishment has emboldened millions of us to stand up and demand our voices be heard.
Regardless of what you decide to do now, you have ignited a movement that will fight onward. We will fight to put more progressives into the House and Senate. We will fight at the state level. We will organize for the 2020 presidential election.
We will not succumb to cynicism. We are in it for the long haul. We will never give up.
Thank you, Bernie.
Bob
Your message – about the necessity of single-payer healthcare, free tuition at public universities, a $15 minimum wage, busting up the biggest Wall Street banks, taxing the financial speculation, expanding Social Security, imposing a tax on carbon, and getting big money out of politics – will shape the progressive agenda from here on.
Your courage in taking on the political establishment has emboldened millions of us to stand up and demand our voices be heard.
Regardless of what you decide to do now, you have ignited a movement that will fight onward. We will fight to put more progressives into the House and Senate. We will fight at the state level. We will organize for the 2020 presidential election.
We will not succumb to cynicism. We are in it for the long haul. We will never give up.
Thank you, Bernie.
Bob
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The whole thing hinges on the right people though, historically counting on people to act for the greater good rather then self-interest hasn't worked out super well. Greed trumps morals in many cases...
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SP5 Christine Conley - i fail to see the comparison??? im not speaking to the ability to rise im speaking to the ability to maintain a form of governing that hinges on everyone doing their fair share and putting the greater good ahead of self-interest. even in America you need only to look to congress to see that the original system of "citizen representatives" has evolved into wealthy and influential career politicians. a prime example of a public office that was meant to serve the greater good being corrupted by personal greed.
I agree, income inequality is a huge issue, minimum wage does not reflect cost of living, 400 people controlling more wealth then 60% of the country is a very large problem, the Rothschild family accounting for half of the entire worlds wealth (estimated) is insane. the message is great, the solution however brings about the question of how to prevent the same thing happening now from happening again?
I agree, income inequality is a huge issue, minimum wage does not reflect cost of living, 400 people controlling more wealth then 60% of the country is a very large problem, the Rothschild family accounting for half of the entire worlds wealth (estimated) is insane. the message is great, the solution however brings about the question of how to prevent the same thing happening now from happening again?
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He never had chance... and like all socialist he's running out of other people's money
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SSG Pete Fleming
Capt Walter Miller - Plus feeding them instead of creating policies that encourage skilled level job growth is pointless. Obviously you didn't bother read what I said. We can afford it. Not with the current economic situation. We need jobs not handouts.
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Capt Walter Miller
SSG Pete Fleming - You are pathetic.
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
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Capt Walter Miller
From the Declaration: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
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SSG Pete Fleming
Capt Walter Miller - Captain stooping to personal attacks... you are a credit to the officer core. We will have to agree to disagree.
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I will never understand how the working class and poor Americans are not voting for Bernie. But will vote for a should be felon and a complete moron to respect the people.
Clinton and Trump has done NOTHING in their past that matches up with the promises they are making.
I will never understand why African americans even like the Clintons. They disgust me.
Donald Trump is Lima Lima Mike Foxtrot about politics in general, talks off the cuff, doesn't stand behind what he says, and flip flops so much its ridiculous.
You get a candidate in Sanders who says what needs to be done to get us on the right track and it goes in one ear and right out the other and all you can say is he is a socialist. That's it, I mean not even attacking his record but that he is a socialist. It just burns me up that he is telling you whats going on and Americans refuse to sit down and actually compare these candidates.
Clinton and Trump has done NOTHING in their past that matches up with the promises they are making.
I will never understand why African americans even like the Clintons. They disgust me.
Donald Trump is Lima Lima Mike Foxtrot about politics in general, talks off the cuff, doesn't stand behind what he says, and flip flops so much its ridiculous.
You get a candidate in Sanders who says what needs to be done to get us on the right track and it goes in one ear and right out the other and all you can say is he is a socialist. That's it, I mean not even attacking his record but that he is a socialist. It just burns me up that he is telling you whats going on and Americans refuse to sit down and actually compare these candidates.
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Capt Walter Miller
I have a super nice black neighbor and we talk politics. Blacks support Madame Clinton because she has been harassed for decades and nothing ever comes of it.
That is certainly something blacks could identify with, it seems to me.
Walt
That is certainly something blacks could identify with, it seems to me.
Walt
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