Bernie Sanders Says Hyde Park (UChicago) Made Him a Socialist, Social Justice Advocate

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Chicago police arrest college guy Bernie Sanders as he protested for public school desegregation.



Bernie Sanders Says Hyde Park Made Him a Socialist, Social Justice Advocate

By Sam Cholke and Kelly Bauer
DNAinfo.com | September 28, 2015

HYDE PARK — Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday returned to his alma mater, the University of Chicago, a day after a poll put him closer to Hillary Clinton than ever.

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In front of a packed crowd of about 1,400, Sanders struck a note of an personal battle for social justice that started at the university where he studied English and then political philosophy while earning as much of an education in the neighborhood's tumultuous political climate of the 1960s.

"I will not go down in history as one of the great students in the history of the University of Chicago," Sanders said. "I spent many days in the basement of Harper Library reading everything except the books I was supposed to be reading for class the next day — don’t take that as advice. Do better than I did."

He said Hyde Park was the first place where he met people who had devoted their lives to social justice and civil rights issues.

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"No one in that room in 1964 would have thought it was possible, but it happened and we should be proud of it," Sanders said of Obama, whose home is mere blocks from where Sanders spoke Monday. "It is not Barack Obama, it is the American people reached the maturity that they would vote for the best candidate not just the white candidate."

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https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150928/hyde-park/bernie-sanders-university-of-chicago-talk-comes-after-polling-boost

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1. ^

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2. UChicago taught Sanders to THINK.

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SOURCE: Why Bernie vs Hillary Matters More Than People Think

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3. Many who do come up with the same two answers.

Hillary?: No

Bernie?: Yes

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5. Did I ask if you've seen 'Where to Invade Next,' Wilms?

If so, sorry to repeat myself. If not, the movie is an indictment of the last 45 years.

Michael Moore went to Finland and discovered the Finnish schools are cranking out the most intelligent graduates on the planet.

Their secret: No homework; as well as short school days, quality teachers, no standardized tests, uniform codes--not for students and teachers--but for all the country's schools.

Like in the antebellum south, where it was illegal to teach a slave to read: The USA is intent on creating generation upon generation of ignoramuses.

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7. The Intentional Cultivation of a Criminal Class

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4. Bernie is really trying tooooo hard but that's ok. nt

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6. Yeah. His entire adult life he's worked to make this a better planet for ALL.

As opposed to other people who enrich themselves due to their positions and influence.

Hillary Clinton’s Pay-for-Play Reality

Whatever one thinks about Hillary Clinton’s sincerity when she professes progressive values, the undeniable reality is that she has immersed herself for decades in the corrupting sludge of Official Washington and its sleazy pay-for-play schemes with Wall Street and other power centers

by JP Sottile
ConsortiumNews, Feb. 15, 2016

It was supposed to be a feel-good moment. The Chairman and CEO of the world’s most powerful financial institution dropped by CNBC’s Squawk Box to crow a bit about his recovery from cancer. But it didn’t quite go the way Lloyd Blankfein — or Hillary Clinton — might’ve wanted.

First, the recently-minted billionaire boss of Goldman Sachs compared his 600 hours of chemotherapy to dropping “napalm” on the Islamic State (“You get ISIS, but you also get some of the Kurds and Iraqis and everybody else”). Lloyd went on to tell Andrew Ross Sorkin that unlike another notable, newly-minted billionaire — fellow cancer survivor and comparably-connected JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon — his brush with mortality didn’t really inspire circumspection about his life or about his crucial role in the profitable business of giving other people the business (“I must be so thick, I missed that whole thing”).

And then Lloyd revealed that Hillary Clinton isn’t the only one “feeling the Bern.” The remarkably unreflective Blankfein said the anti-Wall Street sentiment fueling Sen. Bernie Sanders’s insurgent campaign represented a “dangerous moment” for Wall Street and, by extension, for America. In that revealing moment of truth, Blankfein’s blurb not only encapsulated Wall Street’s growing discomfort with the surging candidacy of, as Blankfein put it, “another kid from Brooklyn,” but it also exposed Wall Street’s lingering detachment from the costly outcomes of its free-wheeling actions.

And it didn’t do Hillary any favors — which is something new for Goldman Sachs. Lloyd unintentionally poured gasoline into an already white-hot news cycle that’s raced out of Hillary’s control. And it further reinforced Bernie’s case that Hillary, the former Senator from Wall Street, is just too closely linked to the “rigged economy” to actually reform it.

But perhaps the most interesting part of Lloyd’s warning centered on his concerns about the post-election political landscape and his sense that the real danger is not people with pitchforks taking to the street. Rather, Lloyd is worried that Washington’s political machine could stall if all that public anger hampers politicians by turning a demonstrated willingness to “compromise” into a political liability. And when Wall Streeters talk about “compromise,” they are referring to their seemingly innate ability to manufacture bipartisan consent in spite of the often-bemoaned acrimony that locks up Republicans and Democrats.

For example, the two big post-Crash bailouts were built on exactly this type of compromise. And yes, there were two bailouts. There was the highly-visible, widely-reported $700+ billion Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). But there was also a host of “other,” often-secret bailouts and programs that may cost somewhere around $4 trillion to $7.7 trillion or, according to one accounting, as high as $16.8 trillion. Most Americans are unfamiliar with those side-deals built on Washington’s reliable willingness to compromise with Wall Street.

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http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/12/hillary-clintons-pay-play-reality

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