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Subject: I've known Bernie a long time
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Message from RootsAction Endorser Jim Hightower on Bernie Sanders
I first met Bernie Sanders in the 1980s, after he pulled off a surprising
upset to be elected mayor of Burlington. Throughout his time as a public
servant, Bernie has never abandoned his working-class roots, remaining
unusually free of the peacocking strut that afflicts too many in high
office. For example, he's not "Senator Sanders" but just "Bernie" - as
everyone calls him that. He lives modestly, flies coach class and considers
$25 a major campaign donation. It's also worth noting that he has not used
his official positions to get rich . . .
For Bernie, the key word in democratic socialism is "democratic" - rallying
and organizing workaday people to reject the plutocratic corporate order and
build "a society in which all people have a decent standard of living - not
a society in which a few people have incredible wealth while 47 million live
in poverty." Sanders comes straight out of America's historic continuum of
progressive boat-rockers: the pamphleteers, abolitionists, suffragists,
Populists, unionists, Progressives, New Dealers, anti-war protesters, along
with marchers for women's equality, gay rights, the environment and the
civil rights movement. . .
Bernie is serious about winning his run for the highest office. This is not
a symbolic run to raise issues, nor is it an ego trip. "I am not running to
fulfill some long-held ambition," he told Rolling Stone. "I never believed
that I would ever become a mayor, a congressman or a United States senator
(much less a president). ... I do not say 'Elect Bernie Sanders, I'm going
to solve all these problems.' We need millions of people to stand up and
fight back."
In other words, we need "a movement." . . . He's saying: Use me. I'll be
your mechanism, your political tool in 2016 for building a democratic
movement that can govern in the people's interest, rather than for the
1-percenters.
Bernie recognizes that the people's yearning for such a movement is what has
created him as a presidential contender. He's not only aware of this basic
truth, but he's turned it into an alter call, saying: "I can't do this. But
we can."
-- Jim Hightower
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Here's a quick way to help build the movement: Forward this email to all New
Yorkers and ask them to
1) Vote for Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary.
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of their state vote.
-- The RootsAction.org team
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