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Theres one question Democrats face as they head into the 2016 presidential election. How should they feel about Hillary Clinton? The coalition Barack Obama built happily came out to vote in his two presidential elections, but turnout was pathetic in 2010 and 2014 when he wasnt on the ticket. Clintons ability to inherit that coalition is debatable.
Some of the partys faithful just want to maximize their chances of taking a third consecutive term, and they think the Clintons careful and calculated brand of center-left politics is the thing to do it. Others are antsy. Theyve seen the GOPs far right drag their party to them with great success, and they want someone to subject Clinton to the same type of pressures. But they need a candidate. Elizabeth Warren has declined to run, and Martin OMalley is a ball of ambition.
Enter U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Congress sole self-avowed socialist, who came through Texas at the beginning of April in the middle of a cross-country trip whose purpose, he said, was to judge the energies of the left and to raise money in anticipation of a possible primary run against Clinton. Sanders would be as unusual a candidate as weve seen in America for quite some time. Hes not quite a Dennis Kucinich or a Mike Gravel, but its not that hes setting out to win either. His self-proclaimed models are people such as Jesse Jackson and Howard Dean, who ran and lost, but inspired future political activists.
Obamas 2008 campaign, Sanders told the Observer at an Austin Tex-Mex restaurant, will go down in history as one of the great campaigns ever run. But, he continued, the day after the election, he said, Thank you for electing me, but I think I can go on from here without you. I do not need the millions of people who were actively involved in my campaign. The kind of change the left wants, he said, is not possible without mass organized activity of the kind that has not existed in the country in some five decadesthe kind Sanders experienced as a young man in the civil rights, anti-war and kibbutz movements.
http://www.texasobserver.org/bernie-sanders-presidential-run/
Cross-posted in the Bernie Sanders Group.
Gothmog
(145,353 posts)A 2013 poll shows that Hillary Clinton could win in Texas http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2013/01/clinton-could-win-texas.html Most of the state party types in Texas who I know are supporting Clinton
DhhD
(4,695 posts)The workers own the company entirely and therefore work for themselves. The decisions are made by the group. There is no owner class. They are their own kind of union, which is great in a right to work state.
Through Capitalism, they pay taxes, pay for benefits and buy items that they are unable to make.
Sanders will explain to America the difference between Capitalism, Socialism and Communism/Red Army. Many people were taught in school that socialism and communism are the same thing.
Southwesst Airlines is a publicly traded company.
https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ALUV&ei=qphCVYmXL8fSqQH-kYCICg
It has a $27B market cap, of which 77% is institutionally owned.
They do have an employee profit sharing plan, but it's nothing to write home about ($385 million paid out to 40k employees over a 3 year period). Most of their employees are also unionized (across about 10 unions), but about half of those unions don't have active agreements in place (some expired and have not been negotiated yet, and others represent contracts yet to be written).
Annual Report if you want some reading material:
http://southwest.investorroom.com/download/2014+Annual+Report.pdf
DhhD
(4,695 posts)my reply. The other side of Capitalism is a supply and demand, free market. Reagan took over the Air Traffic Controllers supply of services. A Red Army was not needed in that situation like it was after the Bolsheviks took over in Russia.
In my opinion, Oliver North was the communism commander of the Reagan Red Army in Latin America.
metalbot
(1,058 posts)Which would actually explain a few things about some of the earlier posts that you've made here.
Not that I have anything against our future robot overlords.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)a Red Army may want to buy robots. If that happened, what would your auto response be that they would need them for or use them for?
Capitalism is always in the middle controlled by Socialism, on one end, and extended for evil purposes by ________________ on the other.
w8liftinglady
(23,278 posts)Maybe not the old guard...but the LGBT and NORML youth,Iraq,Afghanistan Vets,College Students, young working families
I truly believe he will inspire them to register to vote...and VOTE. I am looking at my son's reaction to him running.I see that repeating itself over and over again.