Bernie Sanders 2020

Nope. Actually, it was the Electoral College, and boy, was he sorry.

The Sanders Campaign Is Fighting Back Against Biased Media Coverage
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-sanders-campaign-is-fighting-back-against-biased-media-coverage/

Bernie Sanders Speech to the DNC Summer Meeting
Brothers and sisters, we are facing the most important election of our lifetime. It is an election to defeat the most dangerous president in American history, but also to confront unprecedented existential crises that threaten our very survival, the burden that we face and that this party faces is a heavy one and we cannot afford to fail.

Let me be as clear as I can be: In my view, we will only be successful if we are capable of rallying an unprecedented grassroots uprising that sweeps Trump and all that he represents out of office. And this is where we are today.

Our healthcare system is designed to make $100 billion in profits for the healthcare industry. While 87 million are uninsured or underinsured, 30,000 a year die, 500,000 Americans go bankrupt. The time is now to pass a Medicare for All single payer program.

Our economy creates a handful of Silicon Valley and Wall Street billionaires while paying millions of American workers starvation wages. The time is now to address the crisis of income and wealth inequality and tell the 1% that yes, they will start paying their fair share of taxes.

Our energy system enriches fossil fuel executives, while their products destroy our planet. The time is now to tell the fossil fuel industry that we will no longer allow them to destroy this planet for their short term profits. We will transform our energy system away from fossil fuels.

Our younger generation for the first time in the modern history of this country may well have a lower standard of living than our generation unless we act. And act we must, by making public colleges and universities tuition free and canceling all student debt.

Our gun laws allow gun manufacturers to make massive profits off weapons of war. And that is why together we will ban all assault weapons in America.

And our racist president emboldens bigots, xenophobes and white supremacists as domestic terrorists commit horrific acts of violence across our country. And that is why as the proud son of an immigrant whose family was murdered by the Nazis, we will defeat white nationalism and completely overhaul our immigration system.

For the future of our country and the Democratic Party, let us be honest with one another. As we head into the 2020 election, there is no longer, in my view, a choice between incrementalism and the transformative change that the working families of this country are crying out for.

Playing it safe according to the old rules is the most dangerous cost of all, and a course of action that could very well cost us this election.

So I'm asking everybody here to stand up (and) make a pledge.

And that is that as a party we commit ourselves to being as bold and as brave as the great Democratic Party of history was during past national emergencies.

This is the party, the great Democratic Party that stood as FDR called out at his time up against the economic royalists. I call them the billionaire class and he stood up against them. And he pushed legislation through that provided millions of jobs, dignity and security to the families of America.

This is the party that stood up to fascism and won WWII.

This is the party that stood up to racism and passed landmark civil rights legislation.

This is the party that stood up to homophobia and passed gay rights legislation.

This is the party that stood up to the conservative and big money establishment and passed Medicare and Medicaid.

In other words, in some of the most pivotal moments in American history, this is the party that rose to the challenge, that refused to be timid and stood up to the most powerful special interests of their time.

And this is the party that won historic election victories as it successfully fought for transformative change. Brothers and sisters, this is our time.

This is our time to stand up for the working families of this country and bring the transformative change that has been so long ignored. This is our moment to invite working people and young people into the Democratic Party to create that grassroots movement we need to sweep Trump and his friends out of office.

So this is the moment in this crucial, unprecedented time in American history that we stand together that we call out to our country and say, yes, we stand for justice.

Yes, we stand for the economic rights of working people.

Yes, we stand for health care for all.

Yes, we stand for women's right to control their own bodies.

And yes, together we will take on the divisiveness and bigotry of Trump and create an America that goes forward for progress. Thank you all very much.

https://www.theroot.com/bernie-sanders-criminal-reform-plans-are-catching-up-wi-1837483886/amp?__twitter_impression=true

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Most candidates push criminal reform packages that often lack the requisite muscle to make a dent in a system that warehouses black and brown people with reckless abandon. But Sen. Bernie Sanders’ plan to tackle some of the more contentious elements of the criminal legal system is just as radical as his economic policies—starting with qualified immunity.

Sanders joins former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro as the only two Democratic candidates to tackle qualified immunity, a federal doctrine that protects police officers from civil liability from actions conducted while on duty, especially in cases where they kill someone. Limiting the doctrine in cases of deadly force would compell officers to think twice before pulling the trigger or severely harming people, experts say. It is a very bold move that will surely have police unions up in arms because it strips them of a key layer of protection, shielding them from legal prosecution.

Moreover, Sanders is also pushing for a ban on the use of facial recognition software for policing and establishing a federal no-call policy that will prevent federal cops with poor service records from providing testimony that can lead to criminal convictions. His plan also calls for the legalization of safe injection sites and needle exchanges, which would help to decriminalize drug use and distinguish it from drug dealing.

In Sanders’ second run for president, he appears to be strengthening his positions on key issues that will persuade black voters that he is the candidate for them. The campaign released a video, exclusive to The Root, of Sanders speaking with young black and brown people in Miami about their issues with policing, healthcare and student debt. Facilitating the conversation was Phillip Agnew, co-founder of Dream Defenders and a national surrogate for the Sanders campaign. At 8:24 into the video, Agnew discussed the for-profit prison system in his home state of Florida. An African-American man told Sanders and the rest of the small group that, out of 10 of his friends, only two of them don’t have an arrest record or any charge.

“Say that again?,” Sanders asked.

“Ten friends who grew up together?,” Sanders asked.

“Yes,” the young man answered. “Only two have never been to jail. Misdemeanors and me included.” He added that the misdemeanor charge cost him $3,750.

“Just to become a teacher, I had to pay the Florida Department of Education a fee every month for drug testing. I had to pay a fee for substance abuse counseling for a misdemeanor of marijuana.”

Sanders has always performed well with young voters of color and, in at least 27 states, voters under 30 supported him with a slim majority in 2016. The campaign is hoping that his criminal justice platform helps to attract more of them to the polls in 2020 to compete in a fiercely competitive pool of candidates that include two popular black senators in Kamala Harris and Cory Booker and, so far, a very popular Joe Biden who is currently attracting the most black support of anyone in the Democratic field.

“I don’t think this is an election in which older folks are going to sit back and think, ‘this is something only younger people care about,’” said Agnew. “We’re far beyond that and I think the criminal justice platform like the one he puts forward not only reaches the generation that suffers from the war on drugs but also that generation that saw the war on drugs come into their communities that’s affected the children, the grandchildren, but also the parents. I think they are looking for a platform that begins to repair the wrongs of the war on drugs.”

when some members of organized labor started picking at his Medicare for All plan in recent weeks because of fears that it would deprive them of high-end insurance policies obtained through negotiations with employers. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, pressed Sanders on it during a presidential debate in Detroit late last month, and the issue has remained a hot topic for the candidates ever since.

That, Sanders seemed to realize, was a political problem he needed to address.

Here's what he offered unions this week: a federal regulation that would require employers to apply savings from Medicare for All to wages and benefits.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/bernie-sanders-wins-labor-love-frustrates-foes-medicare-all-play-n1045451?fbclid=IwAR1Lcxkzu7d2xt0JOxYdCb5iTCaE7E-6ZCqQ4zhIJm51FOVnguv1sa9eq1E

I don't see it holding up in court with the court we have now. If Bernie becomes President, (IMO, won't happen in a million years), he will run into the same difficulties as Obama did with lawsuits and the various courts, many of which McConnell has been successful in his career goal of stacking the courts all across the nation. None of which would have happened if Trump wasn't elected.

McConnell’s Plan: Stack the Courts and Legislate From the Bench

It was happening before Trump. He and McConnel just accelerated it. It was no utopia Trump and the Republicans have been deconstructing. Everybody trashing Sanders for wanting to do the right thing for once are working against their own self-interests because progressive goals are the only antidote and only one candidate is staunchly progressive on a consistent basis.

If McConnell didn't hold out on Garland's nomination, we would have had one more leftist judge, but he did. Since he did, when Trump was elected, he was position to stack not just various courts everywhere but put in two judges. We knew that going into the general election. Those are just facts.

What you say is true. But the overall process was well underway by that time. Many Democrats, such as Pelosi and Schumer, but not only them, have been complicit.

HI GOOOOD

I disagree, but I'll leave it there.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1165347745798021121

This is more of your revisionist b s. Pelosie had nothing to do with supreme court appointments. Why don't you just admit you and lash are republican operatives trying to get Trump reelected with your a antidemocratic lies like you did in 2016.

Edgar? Republican? That's so wrong it isn't even funny.

Bernie Sanders
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This election isn't about "red states" or "blue states."

In every state, there are working people who are desperate for change and an economy that works for more than just the billionaires.

We stand with them and together we are going to win.

This is the same quote we've been hearing for several decades, and the complaints are the same. The rich gets richer, and the middle class and poor are stuck in neutral or reverse. I know these are "generally speaking" type phrases, and there are exceptions.

Now be honest, everybody. Does Bernie stand in front of a wind tunnel to get his hair camera ready?

It’s a very delicate procedure!!

There's nothing phony about Bernie's pronouncements. Just roadblocks by those who don't want him to succeed.

Maybe, I'm one of the few who would like to see Elizabeth Warren win.