Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders Pledges To End No Child Left Behind, Shut Down For-Profit Prisons
Much of the territory he covered was the traditional Sanders spiel: raise taxes on the wealthy who have long dodged their tax responsibilities, make education and health care free, combat rising political and economic inequality.
But during the question and answer session he divulged from his normal territory and took on a few new areas: education, the prison industrial complex, and immigration, staking out left-wing positions that are bolder than any major party nominee in recent memory.
http://www.alternet.org/bernie-sanders-pledges-end-no-child-left-behind-shut-down-profit-prisons
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)You're speaking for us all!!! Hopefully, you will have the chance to make those changes we desperately need!
Thank you for all your life long battle for what is right!!!
daleanime
(17,796 posts)TBF
(31,919 posts)legalization of cannabis
transition to sustainable energy methods
rebuild infra-structure (jobs programs - can be through military or civilian corps - or some combo)
welfare assistance in the form of free child care & bus passes
no new trade agreements until we've cleaned our own house
assistance w/housing and student loans (lower interest rates)
stop shooting people (ie cameras on every officer)
This is just a start that took me three minutes to write. There is so much more that needs to be done as well.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)even if he doesn't get the nomination, it will send a message to Democrats to stop selling out our kids and teachers to Wall Street.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)Although I think the journalist meant "diverged" not "divulged."
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)can't even write anymore.
world wide wally
(21,718 posts)And I'll probably vote for him too.
But I do NOT hate Hilary by any stretch of the imagination. It will play out however it plays out and I'll be voting for whoever the Dems put up against the leader of the clown car posse.
calimary
(80,693 posts)If Bernie is our nominee, I will eagerly and enthusiastically support him. AND I WILL vote for him. Unless it's Hillary. Then I WILL vote for her. Eagerly and enthusiastically.
Our absolute WORST Democrat is still LIGHTYEARS better than the so-called "best" the other side's got. And remember - it's not just them, it's WHO THEY BRING IN WITH THEM. Remember that! jeb bush will be bringing in paul wolfowitz sitting on one shoulder, and his lame-ass war-criminal brother sitting on his other shoulder. And rand paul will bring all the flakes and dingdongs of his father's orbit, AND his flake dingdong dad in with him. He'd probably figure, like dubya did, that HE can avenge his dad's defeats. "Well, daddy, you didn't go all the way. I'M gonna try it and I'M gonna make it work (and show both you and Mom HOW IT'S DONE at the same time)."
Politicub
(12,163 posts)It's so incredibly immoral and sick to make incarceration a business opportunity for someone.
Glad he's addressing the issue and I hope it gets people to think.
valerief
(53,235 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Our job now is to find good candidates to run as Democrats for a Congress of Bernie supporters.
In this age of the internet, we can do this if we try.
I'm too old to start a political career.
I hope some younger Bernie supporters will throw their hats in the ring and form a slate of candidates who support Bernie.
Bohunk68
(1,364 posts)then you and I are NOT too old to run. People our age did start our political career years ago by being activists. I agree that we have to get the generations coming after to get involved, and I believe they will. But, we have to show that we are not sitting back in the old rocking chair on our previous work. No, we need to follow Bernie's example and continue to be involved and keep the juices flowing. Yeah, we're tired, but, we all die someday and I want to go out like Dylan Thomas said, unquiet.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)He wins by huge percentages and is second maybe only to Bernie in terms of his ability to communicate with voters. He is just the greatest in my opinion: Xavier Becerra. I hope that DUers and other progressive/liberal Bernie supporters in more conservative districts take your lead.
Any way we can list the other races? Wonder what kind of influence could be brought to bear?
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,281 posts)Into the fetid dialog that our electoral process has become!
Stay strong, Bernie!
Sir!
AzDar
(14,023 posts)MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)Go Bernie!
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)SANDERS: She's not talking about me so be clear (laughter and applause from audience)
QUESTION: then he's voting against his own comprehensive immigration reform bill. I would like to know would you help us shut down the for-profit prisons, would you you shift money away from detaining people to other more humane methods, immigration judges for examples [ ] and would you work for comprehensive immigration reform?
SANDERS: The answer is, yes, yes ,yes. Clearly one of the crises we face in our nation is that we have more people behind bars than any other country on earth [ ] China is a nation that is 3 or 4 times larger than us population wise, it is an authoritarian country Communist country, and we have far more people behind bars than does China. And what we do in our jails is we run a great educational system, we education people how to be even better criminals. So it seems to me that rather than spending huge amounts of money on jails and on private corporations who are incentivized to keep people in jail, it might make a lot more sense to spend money on job training and education so that people do not end up in jail in the first place. And yes I'm certainly in favor of comprehensive education reform.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)of our day.
Go, Bernie. I feel sorry for the candidates who run against Bernie.
Bernie hits every question out of the ball park.
I predict that the other candidates will become very frustrated and very negative.
That's what people do when they see that they are losing and cannot win. Bernie can say what he says, he can be honest and forthright because he is not indebted to the corporations or to corrupt politicians or corrupt donors.
Thank God for Bernie Sanders. We have a chance to save our country. Bernie is the only one who can help us.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)every single issue.
No wonder people are growing more and more excited about him.
Paka
(2,760 posts)I'm grateful I lived long enough to support this man for POTUS. What joy every time I hear him speak.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)leftieNanner
(14,997 posts)the word they needed was "diverged", not divulged.
BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)nikto
(3,284 posts)Bernie puts the uselessness and cowardice of BOTH parties' politicians in clear perspective.
He seems more real and genuine than ever, going back to videos taken back in the early 90s.
Other pols look slimier and slimier, by the day, in comparison.
All he has to do is BE HEARD, and folks will flock to him, as they more clearly begin to see
the shallowness of the gang of phony-balonies he is competing against.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)stodgy, nasty pundits. Go, Bernie.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)candidate, to make sure he wins the nomination, then on to the GE which I think he would win in a landslide.
And all that work is paying off. He is now beating every single Republican currently running for the WH.
A few months ago, few people even knew who he was was.
TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)is right!
I can't even believe that he is talking about all this stuff...it's like a dream!
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)It is sick enough, in my mind, to profit from the incarceration and punishment of guilty people. Sick enough to have it banished.
But to profit from the innocent? To profit from entrapment, dishonesty & profiling? From the torture and outright bondage of our fellow countrymen?
From shareholders to kickbacks & lobbying to more profit to more corporate prisons, more draconian laws, more needless suffering, only for more money. That is evil. No other word for it.
It is the same in our education system. It is the same in our labor. It is the same in our defense. It is the same in our environment. It is taking what could have been a good thing, or at the very least at it's time of implementation considered a necessary thing for the life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness of all Americans (you know, the foundation of Democratic ideals) and it has been twisted by the malignant forces of dark money to serve them only to the detriment of all who come in contact. Now and until the ever beckoning, ever louder song foretelling the end of our run on this planet has finished.
If we don't start changing things now, we quite realistically may never get another chance.
tblue37
(64,979 posts)to be targeted to meet the 95% full promise corrupt politicians have promised the corporations that run those prisons (and the ones that use prisoners--again, especially POC) as slave labor.
And since the availability of prison slave labor helps depress wages generally, drying up that huge pool of prisoners would also benefit US workers.
nikto
(3,284 posts)Some of us knew it was a scam from the get-go ...
http://thesuspicionist.blogspot.com/2015/04/not-conspiracy-just-simple-reality-no.html