Bernie Sanders' People-Powered Campaign Is on Fire

[Uncle Joe]

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Martin Luther King Jr. readily acknowledged that “power without love is reckless and abusive”—but he emphasized that “love without power is sentimental and anemic.” So, where does that leave us in relation to seeking power?

“Power, properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose,” Dr. King wrote. “It is the strength required to bring about social, political or economic changes. In this sense power is not only desirable but necessary in order to implement the demands of love and justice.”

That’s what the Bernie 2020 campaign is about—the necessity of gaining power “in order to implement the demands of love and justice.” And that helps to explain why the campaign is so profoundly compelling at the grassroots. It is oriented to meshing electoral work with social movements—however difficult that might be at times—to generate political power from the ground up. And that’s where genuine progressive change really comes from.

“The parties and candidates are not the agents of change,” a former chair of the California Democratic Party’s Progressive Caucus, Karen Bernal, said a few days ago at a pro-Sanders forum in San Rafael. “It’s the other way around. They respond to the outside forces of movements.”

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Much of the energy behind the Sanders campaign is generated by what corporate media outlets often criticize or mock—Bernie’s consistency as he keeps denouncing massive income inequality and corporate power. In the process, he confronts head-on the system that enables huge profiteering by such enterprises as the healthcare industry, fossil-fuel companies, private prisons and the military-industrial complex.

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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/21/bernie-sanders-people-powered-campaign-fire

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Burning itself to the ground, looks like to me.

[KPN]

7. The Democratic Party?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Bernie's campaign.

His surrogates keep lighting themselves on fire.

[KPN]

17. Ha. Guess we see it 180.

[Gothmog]

22. Sanders campaign has been falling apart for a while

[Sloumeau]

2. On fire? You mean like the Hindenburg? eom

[BannonsLiver]

3. Ha!

Thread winner!

[pfeiffer]

12. Or how about...

The Towering Inferno!

(Darn it...now if Bernie could look just a little more like Steve McQueen...)

[NecklyTyler]

5. More like "You're Fired!"

" You're Fired! " is what the Bernie campaign is going to do to the Trump Administration.

[ehrnst]

6. ....

[Happy Hoosier]

16. or...

[MrsCoffee]

20. Yes!

[zentrum]

4. Young people for sure feel the Bern!

[sheshe2]

18. Yet.

Do they bother to vote.

[KPN]

8. Kicked and recommended!

[The Valley Below]

9. If one calls burning bridges a "fire," then you bet.

Fires are raging.

[wyldwolf]

10. dumpster fire.

[NCProgressive]

13. And the firefighters are sipping beer and smoking a joint

saying, "what fire?"

[MineralMan]

14. Call 911!

[abqtommy]

15. Yeah, I see the Bernie campagin on fire trying to burn Biden and Warren!

[Autumn]

21. Complete bullshit. Bernie is in no way like fucking Donald Trump.

[Scurrilous]

23. Bernie confronting fossil fuels head-on with his head on the comfy pillow of a private jet.

Report: Bernie Sanders Will Use Private Jets To Ferry Him Out To Campaign Events During Senate Impeachment Trial

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"“The Sanders campaign is not comfortable with disclosing its candidate’s new form of transportation, worried about the optics of flying private as a left-wing populist, according to people close to the campaign,” Simonson says. “Instead, the campaign has taken an official ‘no comment’ position when receiving inquiries.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-bernie-sanders-will-use-private-jets-to-ferry-him-out-to-campaign-events-during-senate-impeachment-trial





Power to the people Bernie!