Posted on 06/11/2015 2:54:56 PM PDT by lowbridge
Sanders, elected as an independent, caucuses with Senate Democrats and calls himself a “Democratic socialist.” And now that he’s running for the White House, he’d like to keep busting categories and take back a key phrase from Republicans and redefine it for the 2016 election: “family values.”
At a breakfast with reporters in Washington Thursday, Sanders previewed what he said will be a major theme of his campaign.
“I will be talking about family values, but not the family values that my Republican colleagues talk about, which for them means that a woman cannot have the right to control her own body or that gay people should not have the right to get married or that women should not have access to contraception. That is what their concept of family values are about. That’s not my concept,” Sanders said at the breakfast, sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor Breakfast in downtown D.C.
“My concept of what family values is about is that the United States should not be the only major country on earth that does not guarantee paid family and medical leave when a woman has a baby. So that right now we’re seeing a situation where a woman is having a baby and a week later is forced to go back to work because she doesn’t have the income to stay at home and bond with her child,” Sanders said.
He then outlined three family-oriented policies that would be at the center of his “Family Values Plan”: making sure that all American have 12 weeks of paid maternity leave, paid sick leave and 10 days a year of paid vacation time.
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Run Bernie run. Oh, hell yes...
Good luck Bernie?
Wait! Are you certain we didn’t get Semmens’d?
Bernie just means to warn us that the left is going to try to hijack the term, “family values”, just the same way they hijacked the terms racist, tolerant, diversity, gay, and free speech.
Don’t laugh, this is smart politics by controlling the narrative and forcing your opposition to compromise on their beliefs so they can lose their core supporters.
This has always been the strategy of the Left. Redefine “values” to mean the acceptance of decadent hedonism and it becomes the new normal. Bernie Sanders is emblematic of post Christian, neo pagan America. He will poll not so surprisingly well in the Democratic primaries.
Addams Family Values? Is this dark comedy?
Bernie Sanders would make a great Uncle Fester.
“Charity” now has a working definition of
“advocating that the government steal from another person and give to the ‘needy’ so that I’ll feel like a good person”.
I’ve actually heard a lib say they were “pro-family” because they wanted homos to be able to adopt.
We can all work together in the fields on the collective farm.
It will be utopian like Cambodia.
It’s actually a smart move. It makes him look more centrist
What a dummie. It’s the Democrats that are anti-family. Whenever dolts like this accuse conservatives or the GOP of doing something nasty you can bet it’s the Left that is doing it. They’re telling everyone exactly what they do.
What a blithering idiot.
Neither party even knows what the phrase “Family Values” means much less practice it or preaches it.
More Mendacity and Hypocrisy.
Combined PING! and DANG!
“Taking it back” insinuates Democrats had it in the first place.
I am thinking more Cousin It.
Ladies and gentlemen this guy is the number 2 contender for the DNC crown. Let that sink in for a second.
PING!
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