Ocasio-Cortez to campaign with Bernie Sanders in Kansas

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Source: The Hill

Congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will travel to Kansas together next week to campaign for a pair of candidates in the state, according to The Washington Post.

The pair will start off in Wichita, Kan., on July 20 to campaign for James Thompson in the state’s 4th District. From there they’ll head to the Kansas City, Kan., suburbs to support former Sanders delegate Brent Welder, who is running for the Democratic nomination in the 3rd Congressional District.

Sanders told the Post that he and Ocasio-Cortez, a self-identified democratic socialist, organized the trip after realizing they both wanted to go to Kansas.

“All over this country, you have people who understand that we need to [change] the minimum wage to a living wage; that health care is a right; that we need to rebuild our infrastructure,” the progressive senator told the newspaper.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/397022-ocasio-cortez-to-campaign-with-bernie-sanders-in-kansas

[George II]

1. Aren't there General Elections in New York and Vermont this fall?

[Cha]

7. BS & OAC are campaigning against this Woman..

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[George II]

10. Highly qualified Democratic candidate - already worked in the White House.....

....in Obama's administration, law degree from Ivy League Cornell University, an attorney working on Native American reservations. She's got quite a resume, very impressive.

Here's her story:

https://www.shariceforcongress.com/about

[EllieBC]

11. Qualified Dem...that means someone who cannot be "molded"

to fit BS and his supporters wishes.

[George II]

15. Yes, but she is not a white man so in some eyes she's not good enough.

[Magoo48]

22. An example of the past and the future working together for the here and now. Bravo!

[Me.]

2. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

does he ever stay in his home state

[Cha]

5. I just saw this.. UGH..

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[Me.]

9. Pride Goeth Before A Fall

is all I can say

[Cha]

16. I'll say this..

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[Me.]

18. Nancy Peloise...Her Emails

witch hunt...fake news and so on and so forth

[rpannier]

19. Why?

Brent Welder was a Sanders delegate. When he declared he asked for Sanders' support which he got. And he has asked for Sanders to come and campaign for him
So, why shouldn't he?

[Hortensis]

21. Fascism is the polar opposite of liberal progressivism,

Rpannier, which those controlling the right intend to destroy root and branch.

Right now the fascists have been winning, while some people are fighting mainstream Democratic progressive liberalism as not good enough. To put it mildly, this is an incredibly dangerous and clueless time to be quarreling over what form of national healthcare we should have; if we lose to the right, there will be NONE.

WaPo: According to Freedom House, every year since 2005 has seen a retreat in democracy and an advance of authoritarianism. The year 2017, when the Internet reached more than half the world’s population, was marked by Freedom House as particularly disastrous. Young people who came of age with the Internet care less about democracy and are more sympathetic to authoritarianism than any other generation.

It’s also telling that the Internet has become a weapon of choice for those who wish to spread authoritarianism. Russia’s president and its leading propagandist both cite a fascist philosopher who believed that factuality was meaningless. ...

To be sure, Fascism 2.0 differs from the original. Traditional fascists wanted to conquer both territories and selves; the Internet will settle for your soul. The racist oligarchies that are emerging behind the Internet today want you on the couch, outraged or elated, it doesn’t matter which, so long as you are dissipated at the end of the day.

They want society to be polarized, believing in virtual enemies that are inside the gate, rather than actually marching or acting in the physical world. Polarization directs Americans at other Americans, or rather at the Internet caricatures of other Americans, rather than at fundamental problems such as wealth inequality or foreign interference in democratic elections. The Internet creates a sense of “us and them” inside a country, and an experience that feels like politics but involves no actual policy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/05/21/fascism-is-back-blame-the-internet/?utm_term=.8ca9f3711df5

[RandySF]

3. Thompson's an excellent candidate for KS-04, but I like Sharice Davids for KS-03

[Cha]

6. I know! I just saw this..

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[MuseRider]

13. Thompson did really well last time.

He also introduced Bernie when he came to Topeka. I would sure vote for him if I was in his district.

[RandySF]

14. There's no primary in KS-04.

[RandySF]

4. It's getting ugly on social media re. KS-03

The Intercept and a group of trolls launched a vicious social media attack against Davids.

[Cha]

8. Fuck glenn greenwald and his russian meddling

denying stupidity.

[George II]

12. Of course, and some here use the Intercept as a "news" source.

Politics is getting dirtier and dirtier by the minute. Disgusting.

[Cha]

17. Remember when Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept jumped all over Democrats because they endorsed men..

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