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Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders, in joint rally, say their agenda is now Democratic 'mainstream'
Fox News ^ | July 20, 2018 | Alex Pappas

Posted on 07/21/2018 12:50:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

When Democratic socialists Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders rallied for a left-wing congressional candidate Friday afternoon in Kansas, they insisted their agenda is "mainstream."

Sanders, the Vermont senator and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate who spent the afternoon campaigning in Wichita for Democratic congressional candidate James Thompson, boasted that ideas “once considered to be radical” are now part “of the mainstream conversation.”

“With allies like Alexandria and James in the Congress, we are going to pass a Medicare-for-all, single-payer program,” Sanders told the crowd. “And please understand that this idea of Medicare for all – this is not a radical idea.”

Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old progressive who surprisingly defeated longtime Rep. Joe Crowley in New York’s Democratic primary last month, struck a similar tone, as she also called for Medicare for all, free college tuition and a guaranteed living wage for all persons.

“They said the people of Kansas don’t want those things,” Ocasio-Cortez told the crowd. “They told me that I would not be welcomed. But you have proven them wrong.”

She said the United States should be a nation that “allows improved and expanded Medicare for all,” where every child should be “born with the opportunity to go to college or trade school free of cost” and “every person in this country is paid a living wage to lead a dignified life.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Kansas; US: New York; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; aoc; berniesanders; commieagenda; commies; election2018; election2020; jamesthompson; joecrowley; kansas; ks2018; newyork; ocasiocortez; singlepayer; vermont
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1 posted on 07/21/2018 12:50:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

mainstream at a CPUSA (or German-American Bund meeting), perhaps


2 posted on 07/21/2018 12:51:55 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( "Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

what a phony baloney POS this latina yenta is


3 posted on 07/21/2018 12:52:46 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s hardly “Democratic”.

Way closer to Commie-fascism.


4 posted on 07/21/2018 12:52:53 PM PDT by Paladin2 (no spelchek, no problem...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Boy are they in for a rude awakening.


5 posted on 07/21/2018 12:53:24 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline is here. you just can't see it.)
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What is the difference between a “Democrat” and a “Democratic Socialist?” Are they the same party, or different parties?
6 posted on 07/21/2018 12:53:30 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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Trump will have no problems in 2020 then. Democrat Party = Fringe


7 posted on 07/21/2018 12:55:30 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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8 posted on 07/21/2018 12:56:18 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders, in joint rally, say their agenda is now Democratic 'mainstream'

So now they openly recognize that they have been moving left. Just a few years ago, they were insisting that they were the same, and the Right was moving too far to the Right.

9 posted on 07/21/2018 12:57:35 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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For some years now, at least most of a decade, I’ve been saying that there’s nothing left of the old extreme Left that’s extreme to the Left anymore.

And now some Democrats are openly admitting it ... and they think it’s a good thing!

The DNC ARE the people the anti-communists of the past were warning us about. Oddly they’re increasingly the people that the anti-fascist were warning us about as well. And the people that the Bible has been warning us about too? It’s a possibility....


10 posted on 07/21/2018 12:59:23 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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“free college tuition”

$40,000/year, just for you, no problema

$37,000/year, and for you, no problema

The trillion dollar plus student debt? Gone, like magic.

“a guaranteed living wage for all persons”

Many business people struggle, but of course if they only formed a dummy corporation there would be plenty to pay them.

I sort of like free help to mow my lawn, weed my shrub beds, etc.

And can I have a new roof for free too?


11 posted on 07/21/2018 1:04:23 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The ignorance of youth and the dementia of old age is hardly a wing ticket.


12 posted on 07/21/2018 1:06:25 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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Mainstream - like the Cuyahoga River in 1969.


13 posted on 07/21/2018 1:06:47 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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I know a woman who would like a nice beach house.


14 posted on 07/21/2018 1:08:26 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Teacher317

The Left is like that marching band in Animal House.

Peoplewith bad intentions directed them to take a hard Left into a dead end alley and now they’re all bunched up at the end, still playing and insisting that it’s everyone back on the street that’s the extreme.


15 posted on 07/21/2018 1:10:45 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Indeed he did and the evidence that proved him right has been around for 25 years yet the River of Denial still flows swiftly with many willing to grab up his name like a cudgel to beat on somebody using logic and reason to refute their leftist nonsense.


16 posted on 07/21/2018 1:11:35 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Someone should tell her no one really showed up to vote and she won ,but now she’ll take the US by Storm ,LOL


17 posted on 07/21/2018 1:13:53 PM PDT by butlerweave
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Unfortunately, Joe looked like a guy who breaks legs for a living. If he looked like JFK, people would have paid closer attention to him!


18 posted on 07/21/2018 1:14:50 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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19 posted on 07/21/2018 1:16:16 PM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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LOL. Excellent... Brian.


20 posted on 07/21/2018 1:17:11 PM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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