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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) said on Sunday that his supporters should elect presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden so they can keep pushing the country further to the left.
“We’re going to do everything that we can to elect Biden and—after he’s elected—move this country in as progressive a way as we possibly can,” Sanders said on CNN’s State of the Union. He added that such lobbying would include his signature Medicare for All health care policy proposal, among other left-wing measures.
Since Sanders dropped out of the Democratic presidential primary in April, his supporters have counted on Biden picking a progressive running mate to meet their policy goals.
While the media praised Biden’s announcement last week that Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) will serve as his running mate, Democrats were divided about whether the California senator is a left-wing candidate.
Sanders’s former national press secretary, Briahna Joy Gray, said the Harris pick demonstrates the Democratic Party’s “contempt for the base.” more here
Contempt for the base? Contempt for everybody else, too.
The feeling is mutual.
CAN YOU SAY “BAIT & SWITCH”!!
SURE YA CAN… I KNEW YA COULD!
(strap on your cardigan sweater and insert sly smile here)
Keep grinding the country down with Bernie’s Socialist Sanders!
Venezuela here we come!!
How about we push Bernie out of the country instead?
These scumbags like Sanders with no experience in the real world, who failed several pitiful attempts to actually earn a living and have been government employees all their lives, are history deniers.
Oh it works in Denmark right? Little homogeneous Denmark isn’t even a small town train stop on the United States Railroad. In comparable countries his line of bullshit leads to secret police, cattle cars and people eating zoo animals and that’s if they’re lucky.
But his bullshit works on a population that has had 100 years of the teacher’s unions sending millions of brain dead young adults into our institutions. And you gotta give to him, on his $172,000/year he’s got 3 homes and is a multi-millionaire. yeah
But first they gotta get our weapons. Never forget that.
Irate Nate
Let’s pack his bags and send him back to Mother Russia, that’s where he enjoyed his honeymoon, so why not extend it. 😁
Enough ‘feeling the Bern’ for me thanks. Anytime I feel that I’m either sick to my stomach or just singed myself cooking. No thanks.
The day when Bernie Boi is universally ignored as a dottering old communist not worth shit is a good day.
Someone mentioned Denmark, so a couple of points about Scandinavian socialism. First, it kinda worked when everyone was homogeneous – i.e. when Sweden was full of native Swedes, Norwegians inhabited Norway, and Denmark had native Danes. When they started bringing in immigrants, their socialism didn’t work so well. If enough people don’t buy into the system, it won’t work.
Second, and to oversimplify, they tax the hell out of individuals, but go relatively lightly on their businesses and corporations. The theory is that the country needs the engines that run the economy, and if the individuals want “free” everything, they can pay for it themselves through big income taxes. So yeah, you can have free health care – but you’re going to pay for it fairly directly. Incidentally, corporations are basically piles of legal paperwork, so even if you tax the crap out of corporations, real people end up paying the bill either directly or through increased prices or through lower supplies of goods (or all of the above).
It’s not really a workable system in Scandinavian countries, and definitely not a workable system anywhere else. Can you imagine what would happen if Bernie told his leftist base that “yeah – I’m going to tax the crap out of you to pay for your free shit, but GM is still going to pay reasonable (i.e. less) business taxes.” Can you imagine the effect of that on our “gimme, gimme” class? These are people whose brand of socialism is that their free stuff paid for by someone else.
Squeeze a socialist, and they all mention Sweden – at least pre-Muslim immigration Sweden. Russia is a big nyet, Cuba is a no, and Venezuela is a “oh, hell no.” Fun fact: I used to listen to Thom Hartmann (big vocal socialist) when Err America was still around, and he admitted that he applied to Swedish residency which was refused. I guess even socialist countries don’t want our socialists.
I say we split the difference, and push all THREE of ’em!
OFF a cliff…
Modern democrats, the party of Lee Harvey Oswald.
I still think the plan is to completely tank the existing Democrat party and drop a new progressive party in its place.