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Why Bernie Sanders Is Starting to Attract Conservative Voters | Alternet - 0 views

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    "political categories shift. One of the things the best politicians do is work to shift them."
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An historian compares Bernie Sanders and Eugene Debs - and explains why the pundits are... - 0 views

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  • “I would rather vote for something I want and not get it, than to vote for something I don’t want and get it.”
  • his straight-forward style and remarkable policy views ensure that no one will view him as just another career politician.
  • The speech I heard last summer did not say enough about women or African-Americans.
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  • Ironically, Debs, like Sanders, has been criticized from the left by opponents who viewed him as insensitive to racism.
  • Sanders, like Debs, could bring about genuine reform by challenging the Democrats from the left. He argues that Sanders could “win by losing.” In particular, the historian notes banking reform and child-labor laws achieved during the Progressive era, which were initially part of Debs’s agenda.
  • Sanders campaign cannot transform the system, but it could provide an opportunity for “socialists to regrow, organize together.” Further, he hopes it will give legitimacy to the world “socialist” and “spark a conversation about it.” From this perspective, Sanders has already won.
  • promise of support for the Democratic Party’s nominee
  • offered little real change, and instead channeled young activists into the corrupt Democratic Party. Sanders’s socialist ideals, or longtime status as an independent, seem less important than his current relationship with the Democrats. Their view, stated simply, is that Bernie Sanders is no Eugene Debs. That argument is true, but it is not very helpful today, since Debs will not be on the ballot
  • All of the writers I have discussed assume that Sanders will fail to win the presidency. Although the candidate is a long-shot, his quest for the presidency is not impossible.
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Bernie Sanders and the millennial mindset | TheHill - 0 views

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    via Doug Henwood: Oh fuck off: "Instant success sans much hard work - that's the millennial zeitgeist in one byte." PS: that's more than a byte.
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