Is this a look at a post-Sanders progressive agenda? NYT

[LAS14]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/opinion/campaign-stops/is-the-sanders-agenda-out-of-date.html?_r=0

What will a post-Sanders progressive agenda look like? The first stop will be the official party platform. But for all the work and squabbling that go into them, platforms have long been throwaway documents.

The real progressive agenda will be written over the next few years, either to push the Clinton administration or to shape a challenge to a Republican president and Congress. But it’s unlikely that this new progressive agenda will be Mr. Sanders’s agenda, specifically, or that Mr. Sanders himself will be the leading advocate and arbiter of progressive policies in the way that Senator Edward M. Kennedy once was. Mr. Sanders is still running the Windows 95 version of progressive politics.

[RobertEarl]

1. The agenda

Return the power of the government to the people.

Yeah, it will piss off the rich and entitled, but that's what happens.

[tonyt53]

2. Go ahead and say the words. Bernie has several times, but with different names

Proletariat versus tsarists. Yeppers, Bernie's guide to leading a revolution was written almost 100 years ago. Except this time it is oligarchy or Wall Street or whatever versus the people and it is the US instead of Russia. What you see here is a demonstration of what the GOP would have hit Bernie with. Bernie isn't about a new revolution. Bernie is recycling old ideas that ended up failing miserably.

[roody]

6. What bs. Give an example of one

of Bernie's ideas that failed miserably.

[msongs]

3. "the people" means everybody, not just sanders voters.

[tonyt53]

4. But most "people" have rejected his plan. Does that not matter?

[swhisper1]

5. most people have backed Bernie, you speak of dems, and he got 45% of those "people"

stay in your tunnelvision, such posts just embarrass the poster

[swhisper1]

7. well, Hillary wont follow dictates, as history has shown, and the platform has no power over her

so what is the point of discussing this?