because why?
Has anyone really asked this of Bernie or the Bernie people or Justice Democrats/ Our Revolution/ Brand New Congress/ Coalition to Promote Maybe You Get A Little Something For Your Tax Dollars?
Are any of those organizations planning to support any candidate anywhere (outside of Bernie, but only technically) who isn't a Democrat?
Progress takes time, baby steps. If you want something, you have to start at the bottom and work your way up. That's the way Bernie Sanders sees it with health care for Americans. Instead of demanding a single payer health care system NOW, like that described in HR 676, a legitimate single payer plan that now has 72 cosponsors in Congress, Bernie thinks it's "prudent" to improve Obamacare first by adding a public option to it, to "work toward" Medicare for all.
I was originally writing this as a comment to "Russian Trolls Fooled Sanders Voters, Including on Here" when I got carried away and realized I had written an essay of my own...
In my view what Jimmy Dore has been doing consistently for months is one of the most important developments in media, in this era in which trust in the media, government and politicians are at all-time lows.
A fable: once there was a knight in shining armor across the field to save a damsel in distress. Lance at the ready, the brave warrior urged his steep onward up the slight rise. Alas (and alack!) his horse slipped on the swampy ground, propelling the brave knight into the air. Whatever goes up, must come down. Thump! (Trump?) No, Thump!
Trump's tweets and Hillary's hissy fits don't matter a jot.
Jefferson Airplane Bernie* reminds us what's really important:
With change comes opportunity, but only if we remember what we want.
*pre June 2016 (Jefferson Starship Bernie)
The burning question of the day remains whether to try to reform the Democratic Party from within or to give up on them as a lost cause and build new from the ground up.
A country in which the news media puts more emphasis on the absence or not of a flag pin on a candidate’s lapel than they do on the veracity of his/her statements and the consistency of his/her policy votes, is one that deserves its fate.
Today Bernie Sanders, along with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, have announced plans to hold a rally on January 15th to protect both Medicare and Medicaid called Our First Stand: Save Healthcare.
