"We’ve got to see the White House move more aggressively on healthcare, on housing, on tax reform, on the high cost of prescription drugs,” Sanders said. “If we can get the president to move in that direction, he will win; if not, he’s going to lose.”
The US senator from Vermont added that he was in contact with the White House pressing that point. “We hope to make clear to the president and his team that they are not going to win this election unless they come up with a progressive agenda that speaks to the needs of the working class of this country.”
- shiveyarbles ( @shiveyarbles@beehaw.org ) 16•6 months ago
What Bernie is talking about should be the minimum expectation from our government. Do the basics to look after the citizens. How long can you feed your countrymen into the jaws of corporations?
They’ve figured out how to get our people to cheer for their own impoverishment: by making sure the network news only reports on war and fear.
- shiveyarbles ( @shiveyarbles@beehaw.org ) 1•6 months ago
I feel like MSNBC does a good and fair job of reporting on politics. They do lean pro democracy, as I hope we all do.
Not good enough, clearly.
Both presidential candidates have clear cognitive disabilities, and yet, there isn’t a Democratic Primary and the front-runner for the Republicans is brain-dead Donald Trump.
- Moira_Mayhem ( @Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.org ) 2•6 months ago
Until we get unlimited corporate money out of politics we will never stop being sacrificed for the wealth of the privileged few.
- shiveyarbles ( @shiveyarbles@beehaw.org ) 1•6 months ago
Yeah the problem is both Democrats and Republicans love unconstrained money. They won’t admit to it but they won’t vote against it. Not even with democracy on the chopping table.
- Moira_Mayhem ( @Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.org ) 1•6 months ago
That said, I feel one party is far more open to restricting unlimited donations, and that’s a start.
- shiveyarbles ( @shiveyarbles@beehaw.org ) 2•6 months ago
Yeah Republicans are hellish nihilists, Democrats are sometimes disappointing.
- Moira_Mayhem ( @Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.org ) 2•6 months ago
One may be rusty shitbox, but the other is radioactive rusty shitbox that is also on fire.
I’ll vote rusty shitbox every time given the option.
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Bernie Sanders, America’s leading progressive politician, has issued a stark warning to Joe Biden at the start of presidential election year: be more aggressive in addressing the anxieties of millions of struggling voters or risk handing back the White House to the anti-democratic demagogue Donald Trump.
Recent polls have shown Trump not only doing well in key battleground states but gaining traction with demographic groups who proved vital to Biden’s 2020 victory, including Hispanic and young voters.
Sanders praised Biden for the $1.9tn Covid rescue plan which he said helped avoid economic collapse during the pandemic, and for the Inflation Reduction Act which pumped money into transforming US energy away from fossil fuels.
He was also effusive about Biden’s historic decision to join a United Auto Workers (UAW) picket line during the union’s strike with the three biggest carmakers, which he said made him “the strongest pro-union president that we have had, certainly, since FDR [Franklin D Roosevelt]”.
He formed a set of “taskforces” in which top Biden and Sanders advisers worked together to forge policy agreements in several key areas including the economy, immigration and the climate crisis.
He said he draws confidence from recent labor union victories, including wage increases won by the UAW and new agreements secured by the Teamsters at UPS and by Hollywood writers and actors.
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