he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket.

Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you. "

It's not about economics.

Identity politics isn't working.

It's about class.

Why isn't this posted everywhere? Viral?

I have to agree with Bernie, AGAIN!

He is always spot on.

You can't transform the Democratic Party from outside the Party.

Dems began sucking up to Big Business big time in the 90s (DLC) and I can understand why Bernie has stayed an Independent. I admire that he stood behind Biden’s attempts to return the party to its more liberal roots.

'90s Telecommunications Act, GATT - General Agreement on Taritts and Trade (became the WTO) and corporate attorney/SC chief justice John Roberts' epitaph Citizens United ruling destroyed the democratic framework our founding fathers envisioned/ handed to us. Getting it back, against unlimited money, is the test we face. This bbb abomination is the alarm bells going off.

With Dems like David Hogg trying to propose out-of-the-box ideas to strengthen the party, and getting told to get out and shut the fuck up.

I remember AOC receiving enormous hostility when she first came into the party, with her new ideas and fresh approach.

Mamdani as the Democratic Party mayoral candidate is currently getting smeared by party leaders for his own proposals.

The Dem establishment is very resistant to change imo. There are plenty of examples why Bernie might find it more effective staying in his current outsider position, just sayin’

Time has proven him on point and even the skeptics can't argue his facts. The 1% are abandoning the 99% and robbing the country on the way out the door. Government was the only stopgap against this. They bought it.

We fielded two of the strongest women candidates in history and they lost.

We can’t afford to lose in 2028.

We should be addressing the sexism in this party rather than capitulating to it.

In the late 90's

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Furthermore, if the Democratic Party are all of those insults you claim, Mr. Sanders, why do you caucus with them and why do the vast, vast, vast, VAST majority of them vote exactly the same way you do almost every vote? Are you also a billionaire-funded, consultant-driven politician?

centrism loses races.

Reid Hoffman and Mark Cuban drove Kamala's campaign in the wrong direction.

And Kamala ran on an even more progressive platform than Biden, which was even more progressive than Hillary's.

It needs to be *economically* progressive.

Minimum wage referendums are winning even in deep red states like Nebraska and Missouri. It's just crazy to think Dems lose for being too far left on economics.

Democrats have been for universal healthcare for some time now, which doesn't have to just be achieved through Medicare for All.

As for your other issues, from the 2024 Democratic Party platform:

paid family leave

++++++++++++++++1000!

That’s what’s needed - and now!

Question though seeing this IS the direction we need to move to, considering Bernie is describing the ..other..party perfectly, what then have WE been supporting for the past 20+ years if we need to change???

* it's simply not true. This serves no useful purpose.

Anyone who knows our history or who has read our Party platforms should know this.

I do agree with Sanders that there is a problem with some of the youngish, often white, often male trust fund podcasters and youngish, wealthy, often white, often male media personalities. They do as much to drive the anti-Democratic Party narrative as some Republicans.

I was a Clinton delegate to the 2016 convention and have some strong views on this

He shut it down temporarily before the 2020 Democratic Primary so that he wouldn't get criticism for funneling campaign funds to his family members that worked there, but then he restarted it up shortly after he lost, funded by hundreds of thousands of dollars from his failed presidential campaign that his small-dollar, grassroots donors had sent to him, presumably, in part, to overcome the consultant class.

Oh, the irony.

I read your post as I was listening to this video. It dovetails nicely with Bernie's message and I guarantee you this is representative of what everyone I know feels. Ignore it at the party's own peril.

Health, Housing, Education, Climate, Infrastructure.

He thinks Cuomo should be the nominee based on that since Cuomo voters were more diverse and Cuomo got the lower income and working class votes.

VP Harris for losing the 2024 election.

This divisive bullshit is really getting tiresome.