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LAS14

(15,537 posts) Thu Jun 16, 2016, 02:29 PM Jun 2016

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

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/opinion/campaign-stops/is-the-sanders-agenda-out-of-date.html?_r=0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

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Is this a look at a post-Sanders progressive agenda? NYT (Original Post) LAS14 Jun 2016 OP

The agenda RobertEarl Jun 2016 #1

Go ahead and say the words. Bernie has several times, but with different names tonyt53 Jun 2016 #2

What bs. Give an example of one roody Jun 2016 #6

"the people" means everybody, not just sanders voters. msongs Jun 2016 #3

But most "people" have rejected his plan. Does that not matter? tonyt53 Jun 2016 #4

most people have backed Bernie, you speak of dems, and he got 45% of those "people" swhisper1 Jun 2016 #5

well, Hillary wont follow dictates, as history has shown, and the platform has no power over her swhisper1 Jun 2016 #7

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)

1. The agenda

Reply to LAS14 (Original post)

Thu Jun 16, 2016, 02:32 PM

Jun 2016

Return the power of the government to the people.

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

tonyt53

(5,737 posts)

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

Reply to RobertEarl (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 16, 2016, 02:46 PM

Jun 2016

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

(10,849 posts)

6. What bs. Give an example of one

Reply to tonyt53 (Reply #2)

Thu Jun 16, 2016, 02:59 PM

Jun 2016

of Bernie's ideas that failed miserably.

msongs

(74,203 posts)

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

Reply to RobertEarl (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 16, 2016, 02:46 PM

Jun 2016

tonyt53

(5,737 posts)

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

Reply to msongs (Reply #3)

Thu Jun 16, 2016, 02:51 PM

Jun 2016

swhisper1

(851 posts)

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

Reply to tonyt53 (Reply #4)

Thu Jun 16, 2016, 02:56 PM

Jun 2016

stay in your tunnelvision, such posts just embarrass the poster

swhisper1

(851 posts)

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

Reply to LAS14 (Original post)

Thu Jun 16, 2016, 02:59 PM

Jun 2016

so what is the point of discussing this?

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