As Support for Progressive Agenda Grows, Sanders Says 'Big Money Interests' ... 'Should Be Scared'
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
byCommon Dreams
Excerpt:
"There is a reason why the corporate Democrats are getting nervous. And that's because we are making real progress in transforming the party and the nation."
On the very same day that democratic socialists Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) rallied thousands behind two progressive congressional candidates in Kansas last week, around 250 corporate Democrats and Third Way strategists gathered behind closed doors in Ohio to discuss ways to counteract the progressive momentum embodied by Ocasio-Cortez, Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed, and others throughout the nation.
These two "very different meetings," Sanders argued in an email to supporters Monday evening, represent divergent trends in the Democratic Partyone backed by corporate cash and the other backed by the majority of the American public.
"What are they concerned about? That our ideas, such as Medicare for all, tuition-free public colleges and universities, a $15 per hour minimum wage, and progressive taxation are now mainstream positions," Sanders wrote of the Democratic donors, financiers, and politicians who gathered in Ohio on Friday. "The big money interests should be scared."
"The corporate Democrats are plotting how to defeat progressives the only way they know howwith big money," Sanders added. "But you've shown that, together, we can overcome their brand of pay-to-play politics."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/07/24/support-progressive-agenda-grows-sanders-says-big-money-interests-and-corporate
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)cause after all the biggest threat to bernie is that people identify him for being the conman he is.
Keep attacking dems bernie..Putin is very proud of you.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)left with a laugh!
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)it's about current acts and the probable results of those acts
hoping to god that half of the bernie bots wake up before its too late
I think we'll need an electronic solution for them.
Some percentage of men couldn't ask for directions because it wasn't manly...so GPS comes to the rescue
Now we need an electronic gadget to take the trouble out of voting for men who are unable to do the research or ask for help or take the time to think...punch in your zip code...answer 20 questions...and coolgadget will give you the right responses for your ballot...no one needs to know you are clueless...
JI7
(89,239 posts)Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Campaigning by verb, adjective?
Someone needs to "sweep their own front steps", as quoted from my grama about her nosy neighbor.
Disarray, Flailing!
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/21/bernie-sanders-democrats-2018-599331
More_Cowbell
(2,190 posts)Everyone.
eta (I'll always vote D, though!)
murielm99
(30,717 posts)I'll vote for regular old Democrats, thanks.
Go home, you two. Campaign for the rest of the Democrats who are running in your states.