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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I could see her getting in a lot of trouble with the lefties if this quote was taken out of context like I just did. And to emphasize her point, I think Democrats need to go even farther left, to the left of Karl Marx. Otherwise they're going to fail again.
they can say it all they want as the part bosses see their constituents leaving by the millions
This is their icing on their cake
Honesty.
This is great stuff. The commie rats will lose all their US House seats except for Maxine Waters’ seat. Then the rats, realizing that Maxine is their Great Black Hope, will run her for president in 2020, 2024 and 2028.
Please use AOC as a keyword for all articles related to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Thanks.
Of course it is!
I just can't wait to vote for them!!!?!
Great news for Republicans. Keep saying that.
There is the fetid whiff of Venezuela or Cuba in the air ...
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