2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders is the 1 percent’s worst nightmare: How he promises to upend America’s oligarchy
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 12:15 PM EST
2016's socialist candidate wants to use the tax code to transfer wealth downward. Are you terrified yet?
Jim Newell
Most news articles about Bernie Sanders in the mainstream media include the phrase avowed socialist or avowed democratic socialist. The phrase has become hackneyed to the point that one struggles to remember when avowed was used to describe anything other than Bernie Sanders left-wing politics. If nothing else, Sanders campaign for president, which he (re)announced in Burlington, Vermont, on Tuesday, will forever link the word avowed with the words democratic) socialist Bernie Sanders in the minds of political junkies, much like fans of The Simpsons can no longer hear the words dental plan without immediately thinking Lisa needs braces!
The use of avowed connotes a taboo. That Sanders would avow his belief in socialism, or democratic socialism, or anything containing the term socialism, is a sly way for reporters to imply that he has zero chance of appealing to red-blooded Americans. It is equal to, if not worse than, being an avowed worshipper of Satan or the New York Yankees.
Labels are fun. But what things does Bernie Sanders believe? Are they things that some other Americans might believe? And where do they fit within the confines of the Democratic Party, of which Sanders is not a member but will be competing for its presidential nomination?
Ahead of his campaign launch, Sanders gave an interview with the underground left-wing pamphlet CNBC, outlining one of the basic premises of his campaign: that hell advocate for the very things that mainstream Democrats for decades have been insisting they dont believe, like so-called redistribution of wealth.
http://www.salon.com/2015/05/27/bernie_sanders_is_the_1_percents_worst_nightmare_how_he_promises_to_upend_americas_oligarchy/
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Sen Sanders.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Nothing he is not likely prepared for, and why I am excited he has decided to take on
this fight. In some ways he has self groomed himself all these years for this battle.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)do this if he had enough popular support. He is doing his part, now we must do ours.
The damage that the Oligarchs can do is not something that one can prepare for. They have access to the NSA/CIA Black State.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)is prepared to take them on, better than anyone else that I'm aware of. I mean, the biggest
threat has agreed not to run, Warren,...so they're not too worried.
His supporters will do the work, don't you think?
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)think they will cover their bets one way or an other. With regard to Sen Warren, I think the Party Leaders convinced her that it wasn't her time and that it would not be wise for her career to challenge the Party Leaders' favorite.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Paka
(2,760 posts)As for myself, I find it a tad scary just how much they can and will do to oppose him. We just have to don our hard-shell armor.