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It's imperative that we change our thinking about many Democratic constituencies from "voters" and "beneficiaries" to "candidates" and "our leaders." There simply are not the number of good candidates the party will naturally generate, to turn the country around. We've got to turn especially to our minorities and women and be doing recruitment at the local level. I realize this kind of campaign has no great funding to spread around county and town contests, but anything you can do with moral support such as volunteer power, campaign coordinating with local ethnic or issue organizations that are already in operation, it's sorely needed. And for every new local candidate who looks and lives like main street instead of the village, they've got neighbors and relatives they'll bring to the GOTV project as well, so it's win-win. Make the people the party, make the people the government. We've got no other asset and no more time to lose.
ReplyDelete"We the people..." is how one important document begins. We've got to start taking it seriously and do our part or otherwise it'll become "We the corporations (who are "persons" according to Citizen United)..."
DeleteHas Bernie endorsed the D running in Georgia, Jon Ossoff?
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Good luck with your blog, We the People for Bernie. Great idea. :)
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DeleteI have an idea that might help Berie. I saw his speech that he gave in New Hampshire, it hit on all his great ideas and I think that everyone that would hear that speech would be convince that he is the person we need in the White House. So I think if he put his speech on a DVD and send them out to all dem’s and independents he could wrap this thing up. It would been different and maybe even cost effective, just about everyone has a DVD player and everyone in the household probably would look at it more then once! I heard that it can cost $4.00 to convince someone to vote for them from an ad, sending out DVD’s would be much cheaper.
ReplyDeleteGood idea, Sal. Lots of people don't have Internet and haven't seen a full Bernie stump speech. If you have the capability of recording a speech, I'd do it and share it around.
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hey guys and gales vote for Bernie here http://voteforthepresidentonline.com/ it's a right-wing sponsored page but Bernie's beating everyone but Trump, come-on lets take over the poll ;>)
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ReplyDeleteHI from Charleston SC! We are excited about Saturday's Primary, please send us some positive energy and prayers that the voting process will be fair.
ReplyDeleteWe need to focus on writing letters to the Super Delgates telling them to give thier support to Bernie. The list is on Wikipedia, it's very shocking to see how many Super Delgates have already given thier vote to Hilary. Senator Alan Grayson of Florida has asked for the public to tell him who to give his vote to. He's a another great human like Bernie who cares about Democracy.
Thank you for your Blog and please look at the list of Super Delgates and tell them to support Bernie.
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ReplyDeleteBernie is the only real person in the political arena, who has the ability to take America to the next level and make it the greatest country in the world. Now we just need for the people to wake up and understand that their future is on the line
ReplyDeleteHere is a simple idea. Feds stop making pennies, nickels, dimes. Every transaction you but something it's rounded up to next increment of .25. You buy something that cost you 19.61, then the extra .14 cents goes into Pell Grant Fund to go towards college education for everyone, not just rich kids or those taking on massive student loan debt. There is bound to be a way to give people a tax credit for all the extra money that is applied when rounding up purchases. This is basically a flat tax. The more you spend, the bigger your tax credit at end of year.
ReplyDeleteSavings to Feds ... millions in not minting currency that can't buy anything. Benefit to students who can apply for grants out of money put into education fund. Benefit to consumers because they get tax credit.
Ok, this idea might get picked apart, but it can be tweaked. At least it's better than building a stupid wall.
April 6th> corp media including CNN, MSNBS are trying to destroy Bernie ,every interview is trying to crucify this man today I am shocked by what I am hearing,they now are seeing that he is a real threat that has to be taken down immediately and they are wasting no time doing this . their two attcking points are ,.....how is he going to break up the banks or his lack of knowledge on HOW to do it comparing him to trump saying there is no substance to his ideology and 2 his position on Sandy Hook gun lawsuits . Both of these are nothing ,just smoke and mirror assaults that amount to nothing but Clinton and the Corp. Media have nothing concrete to use so they are pretending these are major flaws in the Sanders campaign , don't let this go unanswered !
ReplyDeleteSome one please say it is not she changes individual votes for money, it is that she and entire establishment take money for speeches and campaigns and that money allowed a few thousand to steal from millions of folks and do not time in jail yet a kid with weed does time, he does not pay money...
ReplyDeleteHillary's success is about the establishment political machine at the state levels. Have Bernie advocates to advocate voting not just against Hillary but against the Hillary national and state ticket might get the state DNC committed and super delegates to pause.
ReplyDeleteHere is a letter that outlines my political thoughts at the moment. I sent it to Senator Durbin this morning.
ReplyDeleteMr Durbin:
I was a supporter of Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.
I am retired now but was a market analyst and money manager for many years in Chicago.
This year I have been and still am a supporter of Bernie Sanders. My thinking is simply:
1) Hillary’s economic direction is just more of the same and would continue the current instability created by the FED, the Administration, and Congressional Fiscal inaction.
2) At the moment there are two prominent Democratic party economic thinkers dealing with the inequality that US economic policies create. Those two people are Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, neither of which hold Hillary’s economic policies in high esteem.
3) The strongest economist in the country who analyzes and writes about the issues that drive Warren and Sanders is Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel prize winner.
4) Obama’s economic policies have been a mixed bag, supporting the biggest manufacturing sector in the U.S., the autos during the great recession, was probably his biggest plus. On the other hand his naming of Timothy Geithner to be Treasury Secretary was a huge mistake for many reasons which are already public. Supporting a follower of Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen, was his second big mistake. If one’s goal is long term economic growth, Yellen has to go and a FED chair who believes in normal economic interest rates and a end to artificial rates needs to replace her. Cheap rates only work for short periods of economic instability, less than two years.
5. Getting back to Hillary, she has stated that she will lean on Bill for economic input. That is a non-starter, Bill and his friend Robert Rubin, both of who were involved in the shutdown of Glass-Steagall, along with Ronald Reagan earlier beliefs are the founders of the inequality forces crushing the U.S. consumer.
6. And lastly, Hillary’s closeness to Wall Street and Goldman Sachs is a huge negative.
7. So what is the answer, the only way I would support Hillary is if she would announce that she would follow the Sanders / Warren Economic Direction and name that policy verbatim in her platform and then follow up with appointments to her election committee that espouse that policy. Just to be sure, she needs to also say publicly that Bill and Bob will not be part of her economic team.
Thanks,
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ReplyDeleteI think Sanders supporters need to stand up and push back. Make it a real revolution. DEMAND a new vote count for nominee.
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