The Nation: What the US Left and Bernie Sanders’ Supporters Can Learn from Jeremy Corbyn

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What the US Left—and Bernie Sanders’ Supporters—Can Learn from Jeremy Corbyn

I think Sanders’ campaign presents a similar opportunity. Sanders is a champion on nearly all of the issues that have mobilized large numbers of Americans, including inequality, climate change, immigrants’ and workers’ rights, college tuition and student debt, and racial justice—even if he has considerable and important work to do to convince people of color that he will combat structural racism directly. His platform is radical and represents a real alternative to both the brutality of the Republicans and the complacency of mainstream Democrats. He rejects SuperPACs and every other electoral perversion and pledges to thoroughly reform the electoral process. He is trying to speak to everyone who wants to break with the status quo. And Sanders recognizes that even if he gets elected, no part of his program will become law unless a powerful movement is publicly demanding it.

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1. sanders has said consistently that change will not happen if We, The People don't push for it

and he says he cannot do it alone, even once elected - he needs US to keep the pressure on.