Bernie Sanders Could Not Have Done What He Did Yesterday
Senator Bernie Sanders could not have done what he did yesterday on our behalf had enough Americans not made the choice to vote for someone other than a Republican or Democrat.
here's the thing; the Vermont dems don't put up anyone against bernie In fact, the dem party endorses him. And it's Vermont. We're a weird little place.
7. maybe we need to break the senate up into small population areas
why is it set in stone as two per state? The concept of America as a collection of city states is long dead but the stupid under representation of the vast majority of Americas population in it remains. Vermont is lucky to be small, imagine if say the city of San Francisco got two senators.
11. America is in a rut and probably will be for a long long time. Americans are
too apathetic to change anything. Another incredibly dumb thing is the electoral college. But yet topping that is how we fund our elections. I'll stop here ...
4. When Sanders ran for and was elected to the House he beat the Republican and Democratic candidates
They learned from that "mistake" and now the Republicans only put up an unwinnable token candidate for Senator and the Democratic Party didn't even bother when Sanders ran for Senator.
13. look, I hate to break this to you but bernie has
strong ties with the vermont dem party. furthermore, vermont dems are almost uniformly pretty terrific. sure, we have our duds, but most of the dem folks in the state house are people I'm happy are there.
the fact that it was only an Independent - free of the leash of a Party - who could politically afford to step out of line on behalf of the people, should tell us something about the current failings of our own Party. Seems to me this is a legitimate line of discussion about reform within the Democratic Party and about why we need it. When so many of our own top people are owned we need to call that out. Pointing out the actions of an Independent helps put that in stark relief.
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