The complete interview with Bernie Sanders about Nicaragua

[suffragette]

This is the interview the snippet was taken from about Castro.

Much of the interview is about how Reagan was supporting conflict in Latin America and that Bernie was against that. That's consistent with Bernie's stance about regime change and war.

Something that has changed is that people now can access the full segments instead of just seeing the snippets. Thank the Internet for that access.

Well worth watching the whole segment. The points he makes toward the end could be about the quagmire in the Middle East we have now.

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[tomm2thumbs]

1. the irony is that right from the start, you can see he supports the people of Latin America

so it was entirely disingenuous of the Univision hosts to give their audience the idea that he was somehow against Latinos or their people's needs -- apparently Latino-operated corporations and their well-paid hosts are no better than American owned conglomerates.

Just confirms that this political system needs to be fixed, and in a big way, by real grassroots

[suffragette]

2. Excellent point.

And the full interview shows that he went out of his way to learn from Latinos what their views were and build bridges, even at a time when it went against the Reagan domination of media and at some possible cost to Sanders politically.

It is breathtakingly honest and compassionate and consistent with how he was then and who he is now.

[tomm2thumbs]

3. I hope this video gets spread now that it has been given attention by Univision

the corporations that pretend to be 'bringing up issues' are really just trying to pad profits and keep their power structure

[suffragette]

9. I hope so, too.

This is the same tactic as the auto bailout.
It's much harder to pull off when info about context is more readily available than it was on the past.
And the context is very important.

[valerief]

4. I watched that a while ago. Fascinating. nt

[suffragette]

20. Yes, and unusual to see a politician so thoroughly explore a topic

And to do so in a way that's thoughtful and compassionate.

My respect for him just keeps growing.

[Geronimoe]

5. Univision cheap low blow

This is very similar to the Rev Wright video clip of Obama's camppaign. Small and out of context clip to entirely misinform everyone.

Bernie clearly is agreeing with Congress. They did not believe it was in US interest to fund the Contras. Which was illegally done in the Reagan Administration in the Iran-Contra affair.

[tomm2thumbs]

6. I'm guessing Clinton's team got them to use the clip

she seemed to have read an attack from her notes right after the clip -- not something she just pulled out of the air -- Ramos' daughter works for the campaign so she'd know just the right people to send things to, and have Hillary prep'd for counter-attacks if they took the bait.

[forest444]

7. Bernie should have grilled her on this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251570202

While largely unknown in the U.S. (or worse, often misunderstood as a simple matter of "creditors seeking repayment&quot , the scourge of vulture funds is well known to Latin Americans and Latin immigrants in the U.S. and their descendants.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027587144

Now that they have the needed court precedents by way of Judge Greasa's outrageous (and probably bought-off) rulings that award vulture funds payouts of up to 6,000% for defaulted bonds, I suspect we'll be seeing them pull the same scam here in the U.S. (they're already trying to in Puerto Rico).

[tomm2thumbs]

8. I think their audience wanted 30 second punches

Which is always difficult but great info at the links - thanks

[forest444]

10. That's the rub, isn't it.

Politics by definition involves complicated issues, and yet by definition also requires 30-second zingers.

Qué será.

[tomm2thumbs]

11. If they are going to do that, they could actually go one further, and I'd prefer it

There are 3 buttons on the podium and the candidates can't talk until they press a Yes or No button first. If they press Won't Answer, they don't get to speak.

• Yes

• No

• Won't Answer

[forest444]

12. Ah! Hillary's kind of debate.

And electronic voting in every primary, thankyouverymuch.

[tomm2thumbs]

13. I hope someone from the company that makes lottery tix machines gets a contract

to create printed-ballot verification for elections -- a receipt for the voter and one for the polling place. Of course there is no guarantee that the numbers that get sent in aren't swapped, but the paper output can be used to double check immediately that they haven't.

Seems like there would be big money in it for a company that could figure it out and they seem to already have something really close, that is accurately checking millions of entries in a single night towards a jackpot

[forest444]

14. The lottery gets more respect than elections in today's America.

The founding fathers - who weren't the most democratic of people themselves - must nevertheless be rolling in their graves.

[tomm2thumbs]

15. indeed

and would no doubt be voting for Bernie

(irony)

[forest444]

16. Jefferson said it best:

"The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed corporations.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to trial, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

[tomm2thumbs]

18. I'm sure Trump will write that on the back of some shirts in the general

From all his experience in reality TV success, I do think he has learned that much of the American public really is under-educated and emotionally responds to feral instincts of fear & anger over logic

[forest444]

19. That's his candidacy in a nutshell.

Although between you and me, I still suspect he's doing this to sabotage the GOP.

He already deep-sixed Jeb (!) - and for that we should be grateful, because if the Bushes ever got their dirty paws back on the White House, I'm convinced it would be the end of American democracy as we know it.

My understanding is that Trump knows many, many secrets about these people, and moreover that he, personally, isn't the Archie Bunker he presents himself as to the Republican base. He knows what's he's doing.

[drokhole]

17. Incredible! Context is certainly key.

Color me even more impressed. Hope more people can find and take the time to actually inform themselves.

Thanks for the post!

[suffragette]

22. You're welcome!

[Enthusiast]

21. Bernie was right! Congress tried to rein in these abuses by Reagan and the CIA but

they did as they wished anyway. They were a criminal treasonous administration.

[suffragette]

23. Yes, he was. And he was very tough on Reagan in this interview.