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reformist2

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Mon Mar 7, 2016, 10:18 PM Mar 2016

Sanders should hammer away at Hillary's ties to the Prison Industry-it will blow her coalition apart


Different issues matter more to different people - but if there's one issue that really gets under every Democrat's skin - it's the Clintons' lifelong connections to the private prison industry and their advocacy for mandatory sentencing for crimes that should be misdemeanors. It's a powerful and even explosive issue, at the intersection of the politics of bribery, corruption, race, and class. If he keeps hammering away relentlessly at this issue, Bernie will find that he could easily blow apart Hillary's base...
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Sanders should hammer away at Hillary's ties to the Prison Industry-it will blow her coalition apart (Original Post) reformist2 Mar 2016 OP
Fuck private prisons Blue Owl Mar 2016 #1
Very good. H2O Man Mar 2016 #2
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