Posted on 08/18/2020 4:41:27 AM PDT by karpov
Michelle Obama provided the star power at Monday night’s opening of the Democratic Party convention, but the evening really belonged to Bernie Sanders. The Vermont socialist, so long a voice in the wilderness, was handed a prominent speaking slot to celebrate how much the party and Joe Biden have adopted his ideas for governing. He earned it.
Mr. Sanders failed a second time to win the nomination this year, foiled by the extraordinary turnout of older black voters in South Carolina for Mr. Biden. But in many ways the progressive war horse has won the more important fight for the party’s direction. In 2016 Mr. Sanders lost and Hillary Clinton saw no need to make concessions. This year Mr. Biden made the unprecedented decision to move left after winning the nomination and adopt much of the Vermont Senator’s platform.
Mr. Biden went so far as to invite the socialist’s policy team to join his own teams on platform task forces. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez co-chaired the task force on climate change. Stephanie Kelton, the evangelist for Modern Monetary Theory or cost-free money printing, sat on the economy panel. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the Seattle proponent of Medicare for All, co-chaired the health-care group.
This process and their product have received too little attention, as the media focus on Donald Trump and the pandemic. But Mr. Sanders, who isn’t easy to buy off, understands what happened.
“The people on those task forces worked very, very hard. And I’m not here to tell you, as a strong advocate for Medicare For All, that we got everything we wanted. We surely did not,” Mr. Sanders said on Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press.
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Sanders is always talking about a movement. Does he mean a bowel movement because he is full of sh*t????????
Byedone has become a sock puppet for the commies to instill all of their treasonous policies.
Enjoy being political pariahs for the rest of eternity, bush league.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Stephanie Kelton, and Rep. Pramila Jayapal. All females. You’ve come a long way baby! Emma Goldstein would be so proud.
And when Senile Joe loses in November, Bernie can claim to his supporters that ‘only if’ the Democrats had made him the candidate they would have won.
Bernie wins and the Democrat Socialists do not go away.
Liberals and their supporters are intoxicated with the word ‘free’.
Seriously, what on earth did you ever get for free, that was worth anything?
It never occurs to them that some poor slob who punches a time clock every morning and struggles to make ends meet ….AND pay taxes is going to pick up the tab for their ‘free’ stuff!
Granted- even IF they don’t work themselves, they must have family & friends who DO and the cost of all that ‘free’ stuff will be passed along to THEM. Duuuhhh!
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