#NotMeUs

Has Bernie Betrayed The Movement? Not If You Were Listening Closely

Submitted by Political Revol... on Thu, 07/28/2016 - 1:35am

Many Bernie Sanders supporters are feeling that Bernie Sanders has betrayed his movement and this political moment. I think this sense of betrayal is a fundamental misreading of what Bernie Sanders has said for the past 15 months as well as misunderstanding what it means to be a civilly engaged.

The Declaration of Political Independence 2016

Submitted by poligirl on Mon, 07/04/2016 - 3:05am

(My apologies to Thomas Jefferson)

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the citizen long guaranteed by our Constitution, a decent respect to the opinions of humankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to that separation.