Sawant Gives Socialist Welcome to Bernie Sanders

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Most sincere and deepest apologies.

The article I posted originally came from something called progressivetoday. Because of the name, I did not even bother to check out the site before I posted. Someone posted on my original thread today that, despite the name, it is a RW website. So, I googled and, sure enough..

Sawant Gives Socialist Welcome to Bernie Sanders.

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“It’s very exciting to have Sanders join us in Seattle. It’s a great opportunity to build the socialist movement to take on the billionaires that are strangling our economy and democracy. The support Sanders is receiving is a resounding confirmation of what my election showed in 2013 – people are hungry for an alternative to corporate politics,” remarked Councilmember Sawant.

“Bernie Sanders says the political system is broken and we need a political revolution. Congress doesn’t regulate Wall Street. Wall Street regulates Congress. I’ve seen an identical process on the Seattle City Council. It is not the Council that controls big developers and business, it is big corporate interests that control the Council,” said Councilmember Sawant. “That’s why we need to use the momentum of Sanders’ campaign to build a new kind of political organization, independent of corporate cash, in opposition to right-wing Republicans, but also independent from the Wall Street-dominated Democratic Party.”

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“Sanders stands out from the rest of the presidential candidates in refusing to take corporate money. I also do not accept corporate cash. Corporate CEOs are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat me and elect their hand-picked representatives to the rest of the Seattle City Council. Sanders will face an even larger storm of corporate money against him. The billionaire class controls the leadership of both the Republican and Democratic parties, as the recent vote on the Trans Pacific Partnership demonstrated,” said Sawant.

http://www.socialistalternative.org/2015/08/03/sawant-socialist-bernie-sanders/

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2. It's definitely true that there will be an all-out effort with tons of money funding it, to stop

Bernie from winning this election. We've seen some of it already. But there is one factor that they may not have taken into account, being they are so out of touch with the people.

Something Bernie, who has remained in touch with the people and prefers their company, understands, and that is how ANGRY the people are.

When you view the people as so indifferently that you lose sight of the POWER they still have IF they are united, watching Bernie's success must be a shock to them and they will fight back against the People.

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3. Thanks, sabrina 1. Angry, tired, disgusted, beaten down, bewildered, desperate--you name it,

the feeling is out there.

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4. And what is most dangerous to those who thought they had control, by keeping the people divided

which did succeed for long enough to allow them to gain that control, is that the people are waking up, it's not just Democrats, OR Republicans anymore.T

People are uniting across political lines, on major issues, no longer allowing the old campaign issues dragged out to divide them every election cycle, to interfere with what they finally 'get'. That while the people fought amongst themselves which was cynically orchestrated, their country was being taken over.

A united people is what scares them the most, and it should.

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5. Bernie seeks to unite us and help us.

Last things they want.

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6. kicking. I want to do my best to ensure that people who saw the erroneous info see this thread.

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