Behind the scenes with Bernie Sanders

[left-of-center2012]

Behind the scenes with Bernie Sanders:
Three days in Iowa that explain why Hillary’s fading and the Dems have a new front-runner
If you want to understand the Sanders shocker, just go to Iowa and listen to his ideas and Hillary's platitudes

This surprising grass-roots success, without the aid of a super PAC or corporate millions, stems from a very simple message: Wealth inequality is destroying the American middle class and leading to increased job loss and poverty.
To Sanders, almost every other problem plaguing the country is related to this “rigged economy,” including a minimum wage of $7.25, the loss of manufacturing jobs, childhood poverty, crumbling infrastructure, college debt, racial injustice, high unemployment and incarceration rates, the death of trade unions, attacks on social security, a broken electoral system, destabilizing wars, and even the destructive march of climate change.

A Hillary Clinton Speech, in Five Movements
> “Does she support the trans-Pacific trade deal?
Under certain circumstances.
> Reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act that separated commercial and investment banks?
She’s going to talk about it — at some point.
> Building the Keystone XL pipeline?
She said weighing in wouldn’t be responsible given her previous involvement on the issue.
> A carbon tax?
Nothing.
> The revolving door between Wall Street and regulators?
And nothing.”

http://www.salon.com/2015/09/20/behind_the_scenes_with_bernie_sanders_three_days_in_iowa_that_explain_why_hillarys_fading_and_the_dems_have_a_new_front_runner/

[LiberalArkie]

1. Good quote from article

It boils down to one critical factor—unlike every other candidate, in either party, Sanders doesn’t seem to care if he loses. While the rest of the field prioritizes victory, he’ll stay loyal to his favorite theme, even at the cost of defeat.

Which makes him a terrifying outsider in the Democratic primaries. There’s no good way to attack Sanders personally; how do you impugn a man whose idiosyncrasies are his strength, and who, as far as progressives are concerned, has rarely taken a false ideological step?


Edit to add: Bernie Quote

The Populist

“There’s something else that FDR said…1936, he was re-nominated for his second term and he stood in front of the Democratic convention, and in so many words, I don’t have the quote exactly, but he called them the economic royalists. That was the name of the billionaire class back in the ‘30s. ‘These economic royalists, they hate my guts, never have the hated someone as much as they hate me, and I welcome their hatred.’
“And let me echo that today. If the Koch brothers and the billionaire class hate my guts, then I welcome their hatred, because I am going to stand with working families.”

— Sanders, during a Q&A session in Boone, Iowa[/div class]

[left-of-center2012]

2. Bernie has been talking the talk, walking the walk

Hillary has "evolved" over time,
as the winds of public opinion change.

[LWolf]

3. This is a great article, well-worth the time it took to read it. nt

[retrowire]

4. b-but hillary supporters say her stance on those issues are clear

and they're everywhere! just go look it up!

[cantbeserious]

5. A Man Of The People - No Citizen Need Settle For The Lesser Of Two Corporate Evils - Go Bernie Go

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