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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum"Sanders: I Will Not Buy Into ‘Their’ Plan To Ignore America’s Problems To Talk About ISIS"
link; excerpt:Sticking once again to his populist economic message in two speeches at New Hampshire universities, Sanders warned that the all-powerful they are using ISIS to distract voters away from Americas systemic problems.
As a nation and as a people, we have got to understand that our country faces a myriad of very serious problems if you turn on the TV, what they now say is, Well weve got one problem, its ISIS, Sanders said, launching into a sarcastic impression of the they on television this week.
We dont have to worry about old people not having enough to eat. We dont have to worry about having more people in jail than any other country. We dont have to worry about the disappearing middle class. We dont have to worry about economic and wealth inequality we dont have to worry about institutional racism, or a broken criminal justice. We dont have to worry about that. All we should focus on now, 24/7, is ISIS, Sanders said.
Heres what I say, he went on, I say that ISIS must be destroyed and I say that we have got to build a coalition which destroys ISIS. But I say that we are a great enough country and a smart enough country that we can destroy ISIS at the same time as rebuild a disappearing middle class. We can do both.
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His campaign schedule Saturday made good on the promise. In Keene he talked about ISIS for a few minutes at the end of his standard long stump speech about income equality, election spending, climate change, immigration, universal health care, criminal justice, marijuana decriminalization and the nations drift toward oligarchy.
Gun control, a major focus of Sanders activities in the Senate last week, didnt get a mention in Keene. At Plymouth State University the second stop of the two-stop day Sanders did push for his standard gun control agenda, tying mention of San Bernardino into the larger conversation about gun violence. He also did the ISIS bit during the speech.... Sanders vowed to impose a carbon tax, reduce carbon emissions across the board by 40% by 2030 and 80% by 2050.
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"Sanders: I Will Not Buy Into ‘Their’ Plan To Ignore America’s Problems To Talk About ISIS" (Original Post)
Attorney in Texas
Dec 2015
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99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)1. Thank you Bernie! n/t
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)2. Exactly. nt
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)3. A President has to deal with both foreign
and domestic problems.
Bernie is shooting himself in the foot acting like foreign policy is not important.
But that's why he will never be President.