Not only that, just think about the two of them. Trump would be incapable of
debating Sanders. However, we'll never get to see such a spectacle because the
Democratic Party will never allow Sanders to get the nomination. I do believe
what a lot of his supporters are saying and what Chris Hedges said. The
Democratic Party would rather see Trump win. Sanders wouldn't make the basic
structural change that we'd like to see, but he'd make change and the changes
he'd make would take away all of the incomes of party operatives.
Miriam
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I just remembered something funny that someone told me. The trouble with being
blind is that I didn't realize that Sanders was doing this.
Remember when the Donald and Hillary were debating and Don the trump came over
to her side of the stage to hover over her menacingly? I was told that he would
never be able to do that with Sanders because with the way Sanders waves his
arms around every time he talks Trump just might get knocked out if he gets too
close.
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Sam Harris
“Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen
yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence
as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell
him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who
will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every
incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what
so ever.”
― Sam Harris,
On 3/2/2020 12:35 PM, miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
The Sanders Coalition Is Set to Shock the World on Super Tuesday Sen.
Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., signs autographs for supporters in Santa Ana,
Calif., last month. (Damian Dovarganes / AP) For many years, corporate
media outlets said it couldn’t be done. Now, they say it must not be.
To the nation’s punditocracy — tacitly or overtly aligned with the
nation’s oligarchy — nominating Bernie Sanders as the Democratic
presidential candidate would be catastrophic.
But the 17,000 people who jammed into the Los Angeles Convention
Center to hear Sanders speak on Sunday night are part of a progressive
populist upsurge that shows no sign of abating. What I saw at the
rally was a multiracial, multigenerational coalition with dimensions
that no other candidate can come near matching.
With scant support from people of color, the media-pumped campaign of
Pete Buttigieg has ended and Amy Klobuchar’s candidacy is about to
collapse. Tom Steyer’s self-financed escapade has folded. Despite his
win in South Carolina, Joe Biden’s campaign is hollow with “back to the
future” rhetoric.
Mike Bloomberg — the quintessential “Not Us. Me.” candidate — might
soon discover that he can’t buy elections no matter how much money he
plows into advertisements, endorsements and consultants.
As for Elizabeth Warren: after impressive seasons of articulating a
challenge to corporate power last year, she has recently diluted her
appeal with murky messages of “unity” while gratuitously sniping at Sanders.
Looking ahead, it’s unclear whether Warren will renew her focus on
denouncing the political leverage of wealth. Top Democratic Party
power brokers don’t want her to. Before the end of spring, we’ll know
whether “nevertheless, she persisted.”
Meanwhile, media coverage remains saturated by the
Sanders-can’t-beat-Trump mantra, but that claim is eroding. The New
York Times — which, like other major outlets, has racked up a long
record of thinly veiled hostility toward Sanders and has been
amplifying the panicked alarms from top Democrats — recently published two
cogent opinion pieces, “The Case for Bernie Sanders”
and “Bernie Sanders Can Beat Trump. Here’s the Math.”
Even the Times news department, a bastion of hidebound corporate
centrism, acknowledged days ago that Sanders “appeared to be making
headway in persuading Democratic voters that he can win the general
election. A Fox News poll released on Thursday showed about two-thirds
of Democrats believe that Mr. Sanders could beat President Trump, the
highest share of any candidate in the field.”
But make no mistake about it: The bulk of powerful corporate media and
entrenched corporate Democrats will do all they can to prevent the
nominee from being Sanders. (I actively support him, while not
affiliated with the official campaign.) More than ever, the current
historic moment calls for a commensurate response: All left hands on deck.
A chant that filled the big hall in Los Angeles where Sanders spoke on
Sunday night — “Sí, se puede” — came from a crowd that was perhaps
half Latino. A coalition has emerged on the ground to topple
longstanding political barriers of race, ethnicity, language and
culture, with shared enthusiasm for the Bernie 2020 campaign that is
stunning, deep and transcendent.
“Look around,” said Marisa Franco, co-founder of the Latinx and
Chicanx activist hub Mijente, during her powerful speech that
introduced Sanders at the LA rally. “We are perched at the edge of
history. There is so much at stake in the 2020 election. The world
around us is bursting with problems and bursting with possibilities.
And that’s making some people very very nervous. You know why? Because we’re
winning.”
Franco added: “Bernie Sanders presents the clearest alternative to
Trump. He is willing to name the problems, what’s causing them, and
proposes the bold solutions that we need to solve them. . . . We want
— and we demand — elected officials who are going to fight like hell for us.”
Norman Solomon
Columnist
Norman Solomon is the coordinator of the online activist group
RootsAction.org...
