ain't it great ! LOL
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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People don’t know how close Joe McCarthy was to the Kennedys.
He dated one of the Kennedy girls. Was friends with JFK & RFK. All should remember RFK was a lawyer (one of his first jobs as a lawyer!) how worked for Roy Cohen. Who was Joe McCarthy’s chief counsel. All those associations were conveniently dropped and forgotten when Joe became a political pariah and particularly when JFK became a martyred secular saint.
Sure, they waved a magic wand and now programs implemented in Venezuela are big in America! Go for it...
“Angry Babies For Change”
Cortez and The Bern need a diaper change ‘cause they are full of kr@p.
It took into Reagan’s “third term” for the Dems to smarten up the last time, before they turned decidedly “moderate” and slipped the bent Slick Willy in on us.
So I wonder if it will likewise take Pence getting elected for them to get there—or will they wise up after Trump’s re-election
By then the never-Trumpers will have formed their own RINO party.
It just doesn’t get any better than this folks.
Relish the next 5 months and keep a diary or blog. Your grandchildren will thank you.
Will they call it the Ross Perot Memorial Party?
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Neither is being exempt just like the Bern was from Commiecare.
How will we know if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s statement is correct — that Democratic-Socialism now represents the Democratic mainstream?
If the leaders of what is now known as the Democratic party — Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, etc. — do not make a point of publicly standing up to contradict Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s statement, we can assume they support it.
And therefore we can safely start referring to the party of Nancy Pelosi and company as the Democratic-Socialist party with no fear of contradiction.
And the dems wonder why there’s a #walkaway movement. LOL!!
I thought the CA pols did the math and had to withdraw their first proposed one state socialist single payer health plan for all. Even one state would not be able to afford it. All current tax money would go into it and nothing would be left. Happened several months ago.
It’s not “democratic” anything. It’s communism plain and simple using the dem party platform to push it. There’s nothing democratic about it.
we are going to pass a Medicare-for-all, single-payer program,” Sanders told the crowd
Like hell you are! Time for you to retire to the dementia home Sanders! Take your socialism and stick it where the sun won’t hit it!
Joe McCarthy was the godfather of RFK’s oldest daughter, and RFK flew to Wisconsin to attend McCarthy’s funeral.
Thanks!
Your memory is better then mine!
Even better details!
I’m positively gleeful over this.
“By then the never-Trumpers will have formed their own RINO party.”
They’re welcome to, but they’ll get about as many votes as the Libertarians, if that. Trump’s base is rock-solid behind him, at least as much as Reagan’s base was, but probably even more.
ain't it great ! LOL
90% of all demoncrats have always been communists masquerading as Americans...There needs to a second great expulsion of traitorous pretend Americans to Canada...
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