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bernie sanders

Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Gender/Race/Class/Age in the Democratic Primaries - Oh My! by Geminijen

Submitted by ny brit expat on Sun, 04/10/2016 - 4:54pm

When Bernie first decided to run for President as a democratic socialist, challenging the extreme income inequality that advanced capitalism has brought to our society, I was excited. His message was echoing the Occupy Wall Street movement’s slogan that 1% of the wealthy owned more than the other 99%. Bernie was going to bring the concept of class struggle between working people and the corporate elite back into the political conversation!

The audacity of Bernie

Submitted by geebeebee on Sun, 04/10/2016 - 12:37pm

I am not a young person, but, in my entire voting life I have never, ever voted for a candidate in which I had virtually no qualms about whatsoever. To be honest, I think I just shut off the part of my brain that used to say, "this isn't nearly enough" and just lived with it. So, about the title. Yeah, I know Obama used 'audacity', but he has long relinquished any form of boldness (as in,the day he was elected), so I'm claiming it for Bernie Sanders. It fits.

A Path to a Different Sort of Victory

Submitted by joe shikspack on Sat, 04/09/2016 - 6:08pm

The pundits are all abuzz about whether or not Bernie Sanders has a "path to victory" in the Democratic primaries. Handicapping the horse race in all its minutiae from "the true math" to speculation over superdelegates and the size of campaign war chests fills the airwaves and plugs the tubes of the internets.

They are talking, largely, about a victory within the arcane electoral rules set up by the parties, but they are generally studiously ignoring the elephant in the room - the struggle of the 99% to achieve political and economic power.

Underneath all of the bloviating and rhetoric, power is what the so-called insurgent candidacies are really about.

Speaking of Margaret Archer, She's a Brilliant Social Scientist Who Deserves Our Study as Such

Submitted by Galtisalie on Sat, 04/09/2016 - 12:15am


Intro
I wanted to get us thinking strategically and even forgivingly about this issue. I cross-posted this at TOP early this evening and got some interesting discussion. As I said in one of my replies to critical questioning:

Swan Song - HRC Sliding in Polls, Losing States and $$$

Submitted by new minas on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 8:02pm

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSGLTnL-aZE]

The reason that rich people are rich is because they don't send good money after bad.

The reason that HRC is "annoyed" by the Sanders campaign refusal to "tone it down" and to not just butt out of the DNC scheduled coronation is because her polls are slip-slip-slidin' away.

Plan B? The Ace Card up our sleeve

Submitted by Lady Libertine on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 9:20am

“Taken” ... great film, love Liam Neeson etc, there's a scene in that movie that has stayed with me, it echoes in a back room of my brain all. the. time. and tends to get a little louder whenever the mechanisms of The Machine appear to be more overwhelming than usual. (so, ya know, every other day!)

80%+ Turnout Expected in Some WI Areas

Submitted by new minas on Tue, 04/05/2016 - 2:18pm

quick rundown

many polling places are logging numbers of 100 voters per hour, steady throughout the day. Some areas have 40 minute wait times. While the state clerk expects a 40% total statewide turnout, the highest for a primary in over 30 years, many locations are reporting and expecting much heavier turnout. For example

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