The Best Speech in Iowa Didn't Come From Hillary or Bernie

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"Brother Bernie and I come from a great tradition," West continued, his tone rising and falling in the familiar cadence and modulation of the pulpit. "The tradition of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Albert Einnnn-stein. The tradition of Helen Keller and Ella Baker. The tradition of John Dewey, who is the founder of pragmatism, but he was a democratic socialist, too. Reinhold Niebuhr! And my dear brother, one of the greatest folk I've ever met in Iowa, his name is Reverend Gil Dawes, who's a Methodist minister, who has been struggling for fifty YEARS and still on fire for justice! The point is that, you see, democratic socialism is not some kind of alien element. It's organic and indigenous in the history of this nation. Don't allow the 'ism' get in the way of the love of poor people, the love of working people, the love of people of color, the love of gay brothers and lesbian sisters, the love of the elderly and the children and the physically challenged. It's a question of what kind of human being do you want to be."

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