Bernie Sanders Delivered the Most Profound Speech Since We Lost MLK

[Hassin Bin Sober]

Bernie Sanders Delivered the Most Profound Speech Since We Lost MLK

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/06/15/bernie-sanders-delivered-most-profound-speech-we-lost-mlk

It is not hyperbole to suggest that Senator Bernie Sanders's June 12, 2019 Democratic Socialism Speech was as profound as any delivered by either of the two men who Sanders frequently quoted: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It was a speech in which the Vermont senator revealed that his campaign, and accompanying "political revolution", offer a unique vehicle for societal transformation—from what President Jimmy Carter described as "an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery" to the realization of the promise offered by President Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address: "government of the people, by the people and for the people."

Sanders brilliantly coupled a condemnation of the tyranny of capitalist oligarchy with FDR's recognition that democracy and freedom are unattainable in the absence of economic security. That message was so powerful that all three major corporate-owned cable networks—Fox "News", CNN and MSNBC—abruptly terminated their live coverage mid-speech. They did so before Sanders outlined what he described as a "21st Century Economic Bill of Rights".

Bernie noted that income and wealth inequality have soared to levels not seen since the onset of the Great Depression. "Three families," he said, “control more wealth than the bottom half of our country, some 160 million people."

That was actually an understatement. As of 2017, America's three richest "individuals"—Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffet—own as much wealth as the bottom 160 million, according to a report released by Institute for Policy Studies. "If left unchecked," Josh Hardy, the study's co-author observed, "wealth will continue to accumulate into fewer and fewer hands."

[msongs]

1. yeah right. how many times has this been posted recently one wonders nt

[Cha]

5. Overkill..

[TexasTowelie]

2. So you couldn't find any new articles praising Bernie?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287151956

[George II]

3. Read the responses to the first time this was posted:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=151956

You still have time to self-delete.

[Cha]

4. The guy who wrote the article works for BS..

Link to tweet

[progressoid]

18. Shocking!

Someone who works for a candidate, writes something positive about that candidate!

[Cha]

25. Yeah, that he would write some

hyperbolic title like that.. absolutely shocking.

[Clash City Rocker]

26. And by "positive", you mean "messianic"...right?

Because that went way behind “positive”.

[Cha]

27. Thank You!

[nycbos]

7. So Bernie is MLK now?

[NYMinute]

8. It's a miracle!!!!

The same post appears again.

Let's call the pope and get beatification started.

[George II]

9. Want to hear profundity?

[sheshe2]

10. First of all the author of this article works for Sander's campaign.

Second, we did not lose MLK. "Bernie Sanders Delivered the Most Profound Speech Since We Lost MLK" MLK is not a child on a the side of a milk carton, "Lost. Have you seen this child?" The man was executed on his balcony on On April 4, 1968, in Memphis.

I am horrified that MLK's death would be used in this way. The author of the article should be ashamed.

[Cha]

12. Well said, she..

[sheshe2]

14. Sad, isn't it Cha.

[EffieBlack]

20. Exactly!

As always, you’re spot on, SheShe!

[WoonTars]

22. Oh get over yourself...

You're "horrified" that someone would say that a murdered person was "lost"?? It's a regular, common turn of phrase.

In fact, it's a term reflecting the great "loss" we as a people suffered.

But the perpetually outraged will never be happy.

[sheshe2]

23. Not at all what I said.

But you know that.

[RandiFan1290]

29. Thank you!

[redstateblues]

11. OP's creds are sinking fast

[stonecutter357]

13. posts removed !!!

[murielm99]

15. This again??

[Lordquinton]

16. This post seems to have drawn a lot of hate

every comment is attacking you, Bernie, the author it seems.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

19. Lol. Yep.

[BooScout]

30. No hate...

Just laughter.

[LanternWaste]

32. I think you're confusing 'bemusement' and 'hate' again... naturally.

The throw-John-Lewis-under-the-bus crowd is certainly milking this editorial, but for all its civil-rights self-righteousness, we saw what happened to John Lewis.

Words v. Actions. The latter is lacking both the alleged strength and convictions of the former.

(and I think you're confusing 'bemusement' and 'hate' again... and I certainly get it, mocking a sacred cow doesn't hold the weight of trendy, self-styled oppression that the "they hate us!" bumper stickers do. It's good marketing.)

[Lordquinton]

34. K

[Karadeniz]

17. I read Bernie s attached speech for first time...very convincing.

[BooScout]

24. Omg!

I think I just peed my pants.

[RandySF]

28. ummmm

Ernest A. Canning is a retired attorney, author, Vietnam Veteran (4th Infantry, Central Highlands 1968) and a Senior Advisor to Veterans For Bernie. He has been a member of the California state bar since 1977. In addition to a juris doctor, he has received both undergraduate and graduate degrees in political science. Follow him on Twitter: @cann4ing

[SouthernProgressive]

31. This is just really sad.

That headline is a real statement. Not the one the author wanted to make. Truly pathetic.

[LanternWaste]

33. The throw-John-Lewis-under-the-bus crowd is certainly milking this editorial

Not you, of course.

I'm quite certain you maintained a most rational behavior when John Lewis was demonized for not bowing to the sacred cow.

[Autumn]

35. It was a most excellent speech.

[brooklynite]

36. Who's mind did it change?

[Autumn]

37. Does that matter? Has Hick's speeches changed any minds?

What I do know is AFAIC Bernie's speech is better than the one of Hickenlooper's I watched a few minutes of.

[brooklynite]

38. See, I'm not upset at criticism of my candidate...

(actually, at the present time I'm supporting Hickenlooper, Inslee, Klobuchar and Bennet).

As for "does it matter"? It does if the goal is to win nomination as President. When you're actually DROPPING in the polls, doing something that doesn't help is a wasted effort.

[Autumn]

39. I'm not upset at anything. It was a good speech obviously he didn't change your mind so no it

doesn't matter. Maybe since you've decided on a candidate you should be more concerned that he can't change my mind into supporting him seeing as how he was my governor and work on talking him up. I don't see any support for him in my local political group chats.