Democratic Primaries
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Are TRADITIONAL Democratic values making a comeback? With Bernie Sanders I believe they are. Even the rank and file union members defied their leadership to embrace what was once a proud Democratic tradition: support the public, keep corporations and monopolies in check, and the public will prosper. Small business will prosper.
Despite the freakout from TV pundits, the Nevada caucuses are a cause for optimism in dark days.
By Zach Carter, Huffington Post
02/22/2020
The results of the Nevada caucuses are, first and foremost, a great sign of hope for American democracy. In an era of rampant corruption and corporate control in both political parties, Nevada handed a blowout win to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) ― one of two candidates in the race who have sworn off the old pattern of billionaire patronage and instead produced a policy platform designed to make this country work for working people of all colors.
The caucus results are also a reason for optimism about the future of the Democratic Party. Despite the best efforts of the partys power brokers and big donors, voters overwhelmingly decided to back a candidate whose agenda calls for a transfer of power away from those elites and into the hands of the people.
These are causes for celebration. It has been a dark decade for democracy around the world, and the spectacle of Americans coming together to rebuke the Democratic Partys aristocratic drift, which has driven so much of the turn to President Donald Trumps authoritarian populism, is both beautiful and profound.
But you wouldnt know this from the way establishment pundits, including many ostensible Democrats, reacted to Sanders win Saturday evening. On MSNBC, Chris Matthews literally compared Sanders victory to the fall of France to Nazi Germany. MSNBC host Nicole Wallace, a former George W. Bush staffer, described Democratic enthusiasm for Sanders as political suicide, and, puzzlingly, said the supporters of the nights runaway victor constitute only a squeaky, angry minority.
This reaction is yet more evidence of the haplessness of the Democratic elite. It has been clear all year that Sanders is the front-runner for the partys presidential nomination. And after his impressive showings in Iowa and New Hampshire, the moneyed minds of the party scrambled to get behind untested thirty-something ex-Mayor Pete Buttigieg and erstwhile Republican billionaire Michael Bloomberg. On the debate stage earlier this week in Las Vegas, both men did their best to beat up on Sanders, but failed to deliver so much as a scratch. Meanwhile, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) did as she promised she would, torching Bloomberg in a debate performance for the ages.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
dem4decades
(11,290 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Sloumeau
(2,657 posts)I mean, it has happened before, right?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)Bernie is a registered Democrat and this party doesn't need any more Republican talking points!
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Sloumeau
(2,657 posts)I've only ever been a Democrat. The same is not true of Bernie Sanders.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)put the latter way.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Zach Carter at HuffPo has got his rose-tints handy, to be sure.
Something to be said for that ...
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Butterflylady
(3,543 posts)No need for democrats to bother voting anymore. We have our nominee. Our opinion doesn't count at all. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
Now that I have said that, I'm going to be the first in line at my polling place to vote for Biden.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)How sincere is he about keeping us out of endless wars? How much fight does he have to protect Americans with a real healthcare solution? How likely is he to continue his tendency to fall back on a 1970s/80s perspective?
I'll take the man who is demonstrably fighting for Americans and not talking about compromising with Republicans before he's even rallied citizens to embrace their democratic AND Democratic heritage.
I've watched this country slide to the pro-corporate right for way too long and evidence shows most of the voting public wants a change.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
stopdiggin
(11,306 posts)Sure got those corporate Democrats on the run. 'Bout time somebody showed Pelosi and Obama and Schumer and Schiff which end of the stick was up. What the heck do they know?
(having said that .. exercising your right to vote your own conscience and opinion .. even if misguided .. IS the essence of democracy. So there is that.)
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)Is it rehashed Limbaugh for Bernie supporters? That "Democratic Establishment" equivalency is not going to help Bernie anywhere. The party is not ready to head for the fringe especially when they see the price tag on Bernie's policies. Promises that can't ever be delivered are hollow and voters will see then as such.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)To pay for programs that will bring public education, roads, bridges, etc., back to pre-Reagan health, Bernie has proposed a top rate of about 53%. That's hardly fringe. Such rhetoric! Did someone slip you the Republican/Russian talking points?
Also, Medicare for all will actually save money AND lives. It would provide health security between jobs and help the country to prosper. By taking out the middlemen of the insurance industry billions are saved, just as has been proven to be the case in every other industrialized nation.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
William769
(55,147 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)1) Please ask Buttigieg to have more insight into the lives of people of color.
2) Vote for the true blue American and my fellow Brooklynite who is polling in double digits ahead of Trump.
3) Tell us how Buttigieg's policies will help average struggling Americans instead of throwing rhetoric at Bernie.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)Newsweek:
72% OF DEMOCRATIC VOTERS BELIEVE BERNIE SANDERS WOULD BEAT TRUMP IN 2020 ELECTION, NEW POLL SHOWS
BY HUNTER MOYLER ON 2/19/20
https://www.newsweek.com/72-democratic-voters-believe-bernie-sanders-would-beat-trump-2020-election-new-poll-shows-1488010?utm_source=GoogleNewsstandUS&utm_medium=Feed&utm_campaign=Partnerships&fbclid=IwAR3lSwsFFvK3n86f2RPei7Rs76U4rRMaNCay38DLvWgc4iwYW-3MMd6hb-g
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
alittlelark
(18,890 posts)Propaganda..... seriously. The wording, the cadence.... I cannot explain exactly why, but it is the only word that came to mind when I read it.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Squinch
(50,949 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)New York Times
Bernie Sanders Isnt the Lefts Trump:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/23/opinion/bernie-sanders-isnt-the-lefts-trump.html?algo=top_conversion&fellback=false&imp_id=634636047&action=click&module=trending&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer&fbclid=IwAR30tOKZU_5xNLoVF6vvCSN_IrxYd-rJu3IRYYPR2Y4C0I4rp8aDqx8WN4U
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)...along with a diverse spread of ethnic groups.
BUZZFEED:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/bernie-sanders-nevada-caucus-culinary-union?fbclid=IwAR2DfBUViJIZHqKxEiErW26IrGIOp7zeKXL0ZhlG6N_1tQTo_vNy6GphYVM
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided