Metro Times endorses Bernie Sanders for president

[Uncle Joe]

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Frustration with the status quo has been a central theme of electoral politics for the past few years. People were so fed up with the system that was leaving them behind that enough of them decided to shake things up by electing a political outsider like Donald Trump for president in 2016. This frustration has shaken up things on the left, too, with a crowded field of candidates now vying for the presidency. After waging a monumental campaign in 2016, Sanders moved the entire Democratic party to the left. But in our view, none of the candidates are sufficiently progressive, and none sufficiently address the underlying issues that brought us Trump — except for Sanders.

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This discontent has only gotten worse in the last few decades. Let's start with income inequality: According to the Pew Research Center, the wealth gap between America's richest and poorer families more than doubled from 1989 to 2016, and the richest families were the only group whose wealth increased in the years after the start of the Great Recession. In contrast, the median net worth of families in lower tiers decreased by at least 20%, while families in the second-lowest fifth experienced a 39% loss. In 2018, households in the top fifth of earners (with incomes of $130,000 or more) brought in 52% of all U.S. income — more than the lower four-fifths combined. In fact, income inequality in the U.S. is the highest of all the G7 nations.

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Sanders is the leader of a movement on the left against complacency. In 1981, he successfully challenged an incumbent Democrat to become Mayor of Burlington, winning by a mere 10 votes and going on to win re-election three times. Other recent political success stories echo Sanders'. In 2018, in New York's 14th congressional district, self-described democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated a 10-term Democratic incumbent in what was widely viewed as the biggest upset victory in the midterm election primaries. Ocasio-Cortez has since endorsed Sanders, as have other progressives like Michigan's U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, former gubernatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed, and state Reps. Yousef Rabhi of Ann Arbor, Isaac Robinson of Detroit, and Abdullah Hammoud of Dearborn.

Of course, we will support whichever candidate the Democratic Party nominates in order to defeat Trump in November, who we do not believe is making America great again. But we also know that Trump is merely a symptom — not the problem. This isn't merely about winning — it's about taking on a system that has left so many people behind. Bernie Sanders understands this, and has long understood this, which is why he gets our vote on Tuesday.

https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/metro-times-endorses-bernie-sanders-for-president/Content?oid=24001823

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. What is that - a weekly freebie/giveaway paper?

[DownriverDem]

2. Metro Times

is very liberal and only online now.

[MyNameGoesHere]

3. Haha same newspaper?

Former Gov. Granholm endorses Biden ahead of Michigan primary election

https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2020/03/04/former-gov-granholm-endorses-biden-ahead-of-michigan-primary-election

[NCProgressive]

4. Metro has a circulation of only 50,000 (self-declared)

Detroit Free Press is more respected and has a verified daily circulation of 230,000 plus 650,000 on Sundays.

Detroit Free Press will endorse Joe Biden.

[MineralMan]

5. So? That is not a major newspaper endorsement.

The Detroit Free Press is, though.

[evertonfc]

6. Vermont, NYC and Cali

Is not typical of America. Moderates won in 18 and 19..