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Trump will not be President | Bernie Sanders video (Original Post) pdsimdars May 2016 OP
Once in a lifetime is right. The first time in memory that we have a candidate for bjo59 May 2016 #1
And the fact that they haven't been able to stop him is encouraging pdsimdars May 2016 #6
This is why I'm for Bernie All in it together May 2016 #2
I saw one interview where he said the whole reason he is in politics pdsimdars May 2016 #3
We can't do better than Bernie this election All in it together May 2016 #5
We will beat Trump with Bernie, while LWolf May 2016 #4
There is hope for the country pdsimdars May 2016 #8
Hillary said it first, murielm99 May 2016 #7
make me the candidate or else. Demsrule86 May 2016 #9

bjo59

(1,166 posts)
1. Once in a lifetime is right. The first time in memory that we have a candidate for
Sat May 14, 2016, 01:53 PM
May 2016

president who did not go get the blessing of AIPAC, who has not made the deals necessary to collect millions of dollars from the banks and corporations, who does not owe anything to anyone but "we the people." (On another note, his candidacy has provided the conditions in which the underbelly of "business as usual" has been brought out into the light to a degree that it never has been before.) The sustained attempts by the corporate media to make Bernie Sanders disappear is just one illustration of the fact that elected representatives actually representing the people instead of banks, big pharma, big agro, big media, the insurance industry, big oil, and the whole military industrial complex is perceived by the powers that be as a serious threat of the highest order.)

All in it together

(275 posts)
2. This is why I'm for Bernie
Sat May 14, 2016, 02:01 PM
May 2016

He cares about the people. If a Democracy is run by and for the 1% alone we don't have a Democracy. And we don't have much of a Democratic Party if we as a party jump on board the gravy train. The politicians may pretend to be for us, while they keep advantaging the richest people and biggest corporations. Including the private prison industry that needs more incarceration so they can make more money.

 

pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
3. I saw one interview where he said the whole reason he is in politics
Sat May 14, 2016, 02:37 PM
May 2016

is to "help the least of these."

Can you get better than that?

murielm99

(30,733 posts)
7. Hillary said it first,
Sun May 15, 2016, 12:23 AM
May 2016

in a tweet.

Bernie has no ideas of his own, and the ones he has are not well thought out.

Demsrule86

(68,552 posts)
9. make me the candidate or else.
Sun May 15, 2016, 09:02 AM
May 2016

He won't be the candidate. And talk is cheap...how about some concrete actions...like conceding and endorsing.

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