Official Bernie Sanders HQ: Not Me, Us!
- Thread starter Berniewood Hogan
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6:52
"Let's say you're Dennis Kucinich, and you've got the best organized campaign, ever. It doesn't matter. The fundamentals are so strongly against you. And the question is, Is Sanders within striking distant? Is he within the realm of possibility? And the electorate he's running in is the worst possible for him. I mention the demographics (Traditional Dem primary voters being risk averse, wealthier, older) but specifically the idea that so many Dems are so hellbent on beating Trump.
You can give them all the polls that have ever been conducted that show Bernie Sanders will beat Trump. They just don't want to believe it. They could see polls that Howard Dean is going to beat... George W. Bush in 2004. They didn't believe it. To them, John Kerry, was the guy that they needed.
... It's 40 years of propaganda from the Democratic establishment. But, its also the years in the wilderness since the Reagan era. Since 1980, Democrats have felt rejected. They have felt like the hippies and the civil rights movement went too far for these American people that they don't understand. So therefore, we need to be as boring as possible so that the rest of the country doesn't hate us. And along comes Joe Biden, and that's the guy!
So, it might just be the case that the structural obstacles are too high. Which is why he's investing so heavily in bringing out new people who have no investment in Joe Biden and the entire pathology of the last 30 years of Democratic disarray."
storyteller
Veteran
Got my weekly Bernie Sanders segment onto the podcast again. It wound up overlapping with a convo about Andrew Yang not making the Ohio ballots (@FAH1223 ), but my main aim this week was to talk about how Bernie's outraising everyone via small donors might speak to down ballot candidates being able to use a similar fundraising strategy. It's kinda rolling into what I've been speaking on both on the podcast and a bit in this thread, that we should look at Bernie's presidential run and already see a victory here. Because he's helping pave a new lane and prove that there are alternative strategies that can help us build a larger progressive presence in legislative politics (we've got the activism game on lock).
We also hit some other lefty friendly topics. Finland damn near erasing homelessness (happy to see a thread on that topic went up), Australian Wildfires another example of climate change damage, Trump attacking windmills for killing birds when domestic cats are taking out a much larger amount of birds, Illinois' governor pardoning 11,000 marijuana related convictions and a few thoughts on Iran though we want to cover that on a more serious and focused podcast. Give me a look fam, I'm tryna merge some fun topics with lefty beliefs and strategy to draw in newcomers but I think it's pretty entertaining.
Time stamps so you can just check the Bernie spot or other topics that interest you.
UFO's in NJ 2019 stats 4:00
Finland ends homelessness 9:50
Bernie Sanders out raises every Dem 16:00 (honestly we get sidetracked but revisit it around 22:00)
Andrew Yang not on Ohio ballot 17:40
Let me remind you 28:10
Killer Cats vs Windmills 33:00
Australian Fires and Foxhoven award to the Irwins 40:35
I.L. Governor pardons 11k people 46:20
Kevin Spacey accusers keep dying 49:30
Out of Line 53:15
Killing of Qasem Soleimani 57:20
After Hours 60:00
afterlife2009
Superstar
When Chris Cillizza and Matt Ygelsias realizing Bernie is inevitable....Bend the knee 
at Chuck Rocha in the weeds about the caucus and SCafterlife2009
Superstar
afterlife2009
Superstar
In Trump's presser today he didn't mention Bernie's name when talking about the 2020 candidates. He said maybe Iran will negotiate with someone weak like a Biden, or a Pocahontas, or Buttigieg
They're doing the whole GWBush campaign strategy. You don't support killing terrorists, you're weak, etc.
afterlife2009
Superstar
Repub climate change tatics.
Deficit reduction
King Kreole
natural blondie like goku
this is a VERY strong counterpunch
this is a VERY strong counterpunch
This is why Trump doesn’t go at Bernie that hard