A woman's perspective on Sanders

One paragraphs starts this way: “The Democratic Party, which has a deeply progressive platform…”

The Democrats are not “deeply progressive.” They are progressive on SOME issues, and have recently been stronger on personal identity issues. Recently.

But in my opinion, the line between Establishment and Progressive is on the issue of Corporate Personhood. Without question, the number one problem we have in our state is that our politicians are influenced more by the desires of large donors than by the people they have been elected to govern. Our system is essentially one of legalized bribery, and I don’t know how anyone can possibly deny that fact.

So we have a majority of Americans in favor of single-payer healthcare, and it’s not a slight majority. It’s a huge majority. Yet Democrats (and Hillary) are flat out telling us that it isn’t possible. Of course, it’s possible. There are dozens of countries that have universal health care. It isn’t impossible. What’s the problem? Obviously the problem is big $$$ donations from insurance corporations, health care providers, pharmaceutical corporations, and so on.

Man-made climate change is a scientific fact. Why are we taking inadequate steps? Money. From oil, banks, billionaires, etc.

Everybody knows this.

So Democrats are fine lining up behind civil rights, and other social causes, but they aren’t at all interested in changing the system. Why? Because they are sucking at the same tit that Ted Cruz is.

That’s not progressive. The writer has it completely wrong. The Democrat Party has a deeply regressive platform. They have completely sold out to the same interests that have corrupted the system, and they are at BEST interested only in Revision of the system, not Reform. They are responsible for partnering with Republicans for the vast transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the elites in society. They OWN that. They cooperated with that rigging of the system.

That isn’t progressive.

And the Democrats aren’t even touching this issue. So, save it. Democrats trying to reclaim the progressive label from the Sanders wing of the party are lying to themselves, and none of the people who care about the issue of legalized bribery is going to fall for their sophistry. It’s bullshit. The Democrats are accomplices in a rigged system that is killing the planet. If that isn’t regressive, I don’t know what is.

Zooey wrote:

One paragraphs starts this way: “The Democratic Party, which has a deeply progressive platform…”

The Democrats are not “deeply progressive.” They are progressive on SOME issues, and have recently been stronger on personal identity issues. Recently.

But in my opinion, the line between Establishment and Progressive is on the issue of Corporate Personhood. Without question, the number one problem we have in our state is that our politicians are influenced more by the desires of large donors than by the people they have been elected to govern. Our system is essentially one of legalized bribery, and I don’t know how anyone can possibly deny that fact.

So we have a majority of Americans in favor of single-payer healthcare, and it’s not a slight majority. It’s a huge majority. Yet Democrats (and Hillary) are flat out telling us that it isn’t possible. Of course, it’s possible. There are dozens of countries that have universal health care. It isn’t impossible. What’s the problem? Obviously the problem is big $$$ donations from insurance corporations, health care providers, pharmaceutical corporations, and so on.

Man-made climate change is a scientific fact. Why are we taking inadequate steps? Money. From oil, banks, billionaires, etc.

Everybody knows this.

So Democrats are fine lining up behind civil rights, and other social causes, but they aren’t at all interested in changing the system. Why? Because they are sucking at the same tit that Ted Cruz is.

That’s not progressive. The writer has it completely wrong. The Democrat Party has a deeply regressive platform. They have completely sold out to the same interests that have corrupted the system, and they are at BEST interested only in Revision of the system, not Reform. They are responsible for partnering with Republicans for the vast transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the elites in society. They OWN that. They cooperated with that rigging of the system.

That isn’t progressive.

And the Democrats aren’t even touching this issue. So, save it. Democrats trying to reclaim the progressive label from the Sanders wing of the party are lying to themselves, and none of the people who care about the issue of legalized bribery is going to fall for their sophistry. It’s bullshit. The Democrats are accomplices in a rigged system that is killing the planet. If that isn’t regressive, I don’t know what is.

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Um, Ditto, again.

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Yes, I agree zooey. I’m seeing more pushback now from the pro-corporate Dems. Bernie must be seen as a bigger threat now, or they would be ignoring him.

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Well, Clinton has disappeared for the most part, and the Sanders appears to be the only person on the left who makes headlines. He has become the de facto face of the Democrats. Where the hell are Shumer and Pelosi? And Shumer, btw, seems to have tacked left since the election defeat. Seems to me he is the only mainstream Dem who isn’t in denial about the currents.

So far, most of the blowback has been coming from media riffraff I’ve never heard of. I agree with Nittany; it would be very dangerous to push away the Left because there is more concerted (and well-informed) energy there than in any other pocket of politics at the moment. I think they would be better off selling out the Left by doing a Clinton: saying conciliatory things, and behind closed doors, saying something else.

We’ll see if this is just another tantrum from the Sallys, or something more of a strategy.