Bernie should only talk about the social safety net. That's what he is able to address cogently. Absolutely NOONE wants to hear his views about immigration, the border or the carceral state. I sincerely hope that this is conveyed to him.
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I think they also need to accept that part of the issue with those primaries is that a lot of us who are fairly politically aligned with him took major issue with some of his stances. I really don't like how much being a white man informs his racial politics for example.
Also, of course the establishment Democrats didn't want him to run. He changed his party affiliation specifically to hijack their primary and make it onto the ballot
there's a very real danger that Sanders's message of economic populism becomes the only message of resistance to Trump, focusing solely on the oligarchy at the expense of the trampling of human rights under fascism
yeah– class is at the root of fascist oppression and that needs to be a core organizing principle, but this popular front can't run away from social justice politics led by minorities & especially black ppl
I listened to her Tuscon speech and thought it was really good - I'm not a democratic socialist. I skipped Bernie's because he has always bugged me a little.
What is your citation as class as the root of fascist oppression? Unfortunately, fascism did begin with a workers' party in Italy. (Of course, it's a bastardization of socialist values.) The ethnonationalist state is a primary component.
WM can be very convincing on their issue, but when they get past their area of expertise, that’s when the “we should give ground for moderation’s sake” conversations get going
I honestly think Bernie knows he's not the right man for the moment, which is why he is partnering up with AOC to elevate her. He's basically endorsed her to his whole base. He's an old white politician handing off the torch to a younger more diverse crowd, and that is applaudable.
I remember being interested in him as one of several Dem candidates in 2016. I didn’t know much about him so I listened to an interview. He was asked why he polled low w/ Black voters and he started talking about “the problems of the ghetto.” He used that exact phrase twice. I was stunned.
I can't find anything to disagree with Bernie on prisons, law enforcement, or immigration, and I really think the rest of the country should be on board with abolishing private prisons, and prison labor for profit.
If someone who has been in the US Senate for as long as Bernie Sanders cannot speak meaningfully about major issues without falling into obvious racism he shouldn't be speaking about anything at all. Nor should he remain in the US Senate.
When he was running for president I really didn't like that he only had that one drum to beat. But, then again, I wasn't going to support him in that primary.
that moment when Erica Garner used part his 2016 campaign to promote abolitionism after getting shut down by Obama at the town hall was interesting, but it didn’t last long and he didn’t learn from it. he’s always been terrible on borders. ‘No borders no USA’
Considering the majority supports his views it really hi lights the inequality of opinion electoral college forces on you. As its slave owning writers intended.
It's just too big of a blind spot to have at this very moment when people are being deported and being shipped to penal colonies without due process as a result of US immigration policies
Him and AOC also need to pivot in a way that doesn’t mention the next elections, as fair ones aren’t guaranteed. These need to be talks about resistance and civil disobedience.
And BOYCOTTS! how can you be yelling about oligarchy in front of thousands of people and not devote 2-5 minutes to informing people that active boycotts of DT oligarch and segregationist corps are happening and urge them to delete X, delete IG/FB, boycott Target, Walmart, citi, PayPal/venmo?How???
He cannot speak beyond whiteness. It’s so painfully clear. And he’s got the same line on “identity politics” (which we know they are misusing) as mainstream liberals. It’s painful to hear. Stick with the social safety net because you’re inept at the rest.
since we heard his views in 2016, when he graced us with his wisdom that cops would stop shooting Black youth if only they were employed rather than hanging out on the street corners, I've hoped Bernie gets this memo (STFU on songs he doesn't know the words of & also get his hearing checked, WTF)
That statement is a big part of why he lost to HRC in primaries across the South (where Black voters ARE the party), and have as much or more to do with him losing that primary than all the DNC's shenanigans.
Oof, I forgot about that one. He also did the "we just need to pay cops more and educate them to not be violent" thing in 2020. He's not good on those issues!
“Pay cops more & educate them” sounds like raises & training seminars—a model we know fails b/c of the massive grift economy dominating LEO “training” atm
Its incomparable to places with professionalized LEO, often with specific professional degrees & a fundamentally different information ecosystem
Agree! Reforming a system that is fundamentally broken is a fools errand. Bernie was making these proposals after we all watched a man be suffocated to death by a cop while crying for his mother.
More money for boots on necks was not the right take.
The problem is that police have almost no accountability for abusing and murdering people. And their historical role has been to terrorize specific communities. The Klan, for example, has always had significant representation in the police force. Education and raises don't address that.
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https://latinocf.org/building-political-power/
One person can’t have it all but they have to start somewhere.
One thing the right is willing to do to win is use their imperfect but popular members to get what they need done and move things forward.
What Democratic politician has a better view?
https://www.tampafp.com/sen-bernie-sanders-agrees-with-trump-on-border-security-but-slams-mass-deportation-plan/
Its incomparable to places with professionalized LEO, often with specific professional degrees & a fundamentally different information ecosystem
More money for boots on necks was not the right take.