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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Says He's Willing To Campaign For Montana Populist Rob Quist [View all]JCanete
(5,272 posts)at least publicly on the same page on this issue. Has Sanders called out Booker on this in recent days?
And where has Sanders indicated that he is willing to move right on social issues? I have yet to see that in my own exposure, and it would be news to me. I'd like to see what in his own words, adds up to that signaling. I see in the post he's saying these voters are getting hung up on these issues. I don't think he was saying(but you have your interpretation), that we should abandon those issues. He's saying we need to break down their resistance with topics that actually resonate with them first and foremost. I think we can do all these things. It isn't either or and can't be, but if we don't have an aggressive stance on big money, and clear promises on what we WILL do to make their lives better in the immediate and long-term future( not vague promises about how we will work with those big money guys to not go so hard on the rest of us), they aren't going to be able to hear us. We aren't disrupting their entrenched understanding. They think we're the ones working for the money. We need to starkly contrast the GOP on this issue, not just in legislation but on the rhetoric. We can't be the party of "we'll work together!", when that means we'll work with the rich and get them to throw a bone.
Sanders decries Clinton helping to get us into a war. Over 100,000 Iraqis died in that war. It cost us a shit ton of money to destabilize the middle east-a gift that keeps on giving. It took her a long ass time to come around on that vote. Alternatively she is at odds with a very hawkish approach to Wall Street and banks, and big money in general. There are plenty of things that have not just to do with Clinton's past record that they were debating over. And again, they were in a primary together identifying those differences between them.
Pariello and his democratic rival are our choices in this race. Clinton was our choice in the GE, and I'm pretty sure I remember Sanders backing her AND endorsing her AND campaigning for her, so I guess he got over those supposed double standards. We are talking about an endorsement here right?