Bernie Sanders Consistent Over Decades in His Call for ‘Revolution’

[kennetha]

Bernie the Ideological Robot!

BURLINGTON, Vt. — On the night of the New Hampshire primary, the high-water mark of his presidential campaign, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont called his rout of Hillary Clinton “nothing short of the beginning of a political revolution” and vowed to stop the “billionaire class” from buying elections.

It was barely different from the speech he gave March 15, the day he lost five of five primaries, when he asked thousands of his adoring fans: “Are you ready for a political revolution? Are you tired of a handful of billionaires running our economy?”

Nor, for that matter, was it much changed from his address to a spaghetti dinner of the Addison County Community Action Group in 1984, when he called for a “political revolution” and urged working people to take power from a “very small group of wealthy people.”

It is a political score Mr. Sanders has been singing for the last 40 years, and he does not seem ready to stop anytime soon. Regardless of the results on the scoreboard, the state on the map, the year or even the decade, Mr. Sanders has talked with clockwork consistency about an economy rigged against the working class, a campaign finance system that corrupts politicians and a corporate media that obscures the truth.

Bernie Sanders Consistent Over Decades in His Call for ‘Revolution’

[DemocracyDirect]

1. Consistently on our side!

Feel the Bern!

[beam me up scottie]

2. Wait you think this is a hit piece?

In 1983, he found himself in a tight spot when his allies in the peace movement protested at a local General Electric plant that made Gatling guns used in El Salvador. Mr. Sanders had urged the protesters to leave the unionized workers alone, saying, “Not everybody has the luxury of choosing where they are going to work.”

Mr. Bouricius, who had a front-row seat to Mr. Sanders’s anguish, said issues like war and militarism were important to him. “But they were all seen as one step down from what he saw as the fundamental issues, which was capitalism and the privilege of wealth,” he said.

That clarity has been critical to Mr. Sanders’s aura of authenticity and has attracted millions of young voters. It has also provided a stark contrast with Mrs. Clinton, who has echoed him by saying “the economy is rigged in favor of those at the top” but who still has trouble convincing voters she is trustworthy.

In the 1970s, Mr. Sanders argued his message from the political fringe, and then, starting in 1981, from his perch as the Socialist mayor of Burlington. From that office he sent news releases like one that read, “If the working people and people of moderate income do not become increasingly involved in the contemporary political struggles then the political decisions will continue to reflect the interests of the small clique of money people who presently dominate state and national politics.”

He only sounds like a robot if you're unable to detect nuance.

Or if you're used to politicians who just tell you what you want to hear based on polls.

[kennetha]

4. No nuance; no evolution; no contextualization

Just robotic blather!

[beam me up scottie]

6. You shouldn't refer to HC supporters' posts like that, give yourself more credit!

There is hope, depth perception problems are a symptom of Bernie Derangement Syndrome and it can be cured.

[Cheese Sandwich]

3. There is going to be a revolution one way or another.

The wealth and power is too lopsided.

The system is too rotten.

The center can not hold. There's no way it stays like this.

Either we need to spread the wealth around now, with a friend like Bernie, or a few years down the road we'll end up with a monster much worse than Trump.

[kennetha]

5. Keep telling yourself that

[Gwhittey]

7. Please your back called it is in real pain

[libtodeath]

8. Being right about something doesnt change so what is the surprise here?

Kind of like the old saying that the truth is always easy to remember.