Bernie Sanders 2020

I think it is very important for everyone, but particularly for progressives, to acknowledge the enormous achievement of establishing a democratic homeland for the Jewish people after centuries of displacement and persecution.

We must also be honest about this: The founding of Israel is understood by another people in the land of Palestine as the cause of their painful displacement. And just as Palestinians should recognize the just claims of Israeli Jews, supporters of Israel must understand why Palestinians view Israel’s creation as they do. Acknowledging these realities does not “delegitimize” Israel any more than acknowledging the sober facts of America’s own founding delegitimizes the United States. It is a necessary step of truth and reconciliation in order to address the inequalities that continue to exist in our respective societies.

Ending that occupation and enabling the Palestinians to have self-determination in an independent, democratic, economically viable state of their own is in the best interests of the United States, Israel, the Palestinians, and the region. My pride and admiration for Israel lives alongside my support for Palestinian freedom and independence. I reject the notion that there is any contradiction there.

The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know. -- Noam Chomsky

If I was to say that the population of Germany in 1944 did not know what what happening and did not know they didn't know, would that not make sense to you?

If one was to say that the farmers and shopkeepers and soldiers of North Korea do not know what's really going on and that they do not know that either, would that be an instance of intellectual elitism?

How power is held and how it is employed and why (as in, to who's benefit) is often out of the sight of a population.

I think Russia is a ploy to distract from Democrats’ crushing Clinton failure

Russian bots are the centrist's crutch when they run out of answers.

In a February 2018 interview on VPR, Bernie said, “It is now clear to everyone that agents of the Russian government were, in a disgusting and dangerous manner, actively interfering in the 2016 election in an effort to defeat Secretary Hillary Clinton.”

Bernie also stated during the interview that Russia “deserves unconditional condemnation” for their efforts to interfere with the 2016 elections.

Bernie introduced a Resolution in 2018 that would have forced “members of the Senate to go on the record in accepting the assessment of the U.S. intelligence community that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and the looming threat of Russian interference in this year’s midterm elections.”