Posted on 09/09/2024 9:25:38 AM PDT by bitt
In a revealing interview on "Meet the Press" on Sunday, Senator Bernie Sanders (S-Vt.) said the quiet part out loud, proving what many conservatives have been saying for weeks now: Kamala Harris’s sudden attempt to shift toward the center is nothing more than a political charade to win votes, not a genuine change of ideology.
When pressed by host Kristen Welker on Harris’s reversal of key progressive positions—like her prior support for Medicare for All and a ban on fracking—Sanders’s response said it all.
Welker asked Sanders directly if Harris was abandoning her progressive ideals, noting that these were issues Sanders himself has championed. Instead of offering a robust defense of her flip-flopping, Sanders tried to rationalize it. “No. I don’t think she’s abandoning her ideals. I think she’s trying to be pragmatic and doing what she thinks is right in order to win the election.”
Make no mistake about it: This is Sanders admitting that Harris is scamming the voters, not standing on principle. She’s not walking away from her left-wing values because she’s had some grand realization and evolved on the issues; she’s doing it because she thinks that’s what it’ll take to win in 2024. This is what we’ve been saying all along, and Sanders, in trying to excuse her, essentially confirmed that her moves to the center are purely an attempt to deceive voters and make her more electable.
This type of political maneuvering is exactly why so many Americans distrust their elected officials. Sanders himself pointed to the growing disillusionment in the country, stating, "In America today, there are a lot of people, rural people, working-class people, who no longer believe that the United States Congress and government represents their interests." Well, gee, he just said
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Psssssstttt! Hey burned knees, most of us are well aware of this.
IOW, she be LYING...................
Sanders, being a dedicated Marxist, is feeling his oats.
Even though in 2016 he was screwed over by the DNC and Hillary for his chance to rise into the standing committee of the DC politburo, he is not unhappy - because he sees the work of the marxist woke revolution proceeding apace.
You mean…..you mean…..Harris is a liar?
She would say anything to get elected?
Wouldn’t that prove that she will lie about anything?
She’s still just an empty suit. Her policies will be those of her masters, whoever they are.
She’s been telling everybody up front, “My ‘values’ haven’t changed.” And the MSM listeners are ignoring the flip-flopping like idiots.
The only ‘values’ she has are in what it takes to get what she wants, either from her early days with Willie Brown or right up through today lying about fracking, taxing, illegals and all the rest. You can tell what kind of valueless person she is by her pick for VP with that lying sack of “America’s Dad” sh!t.
Hey Vermont it’s time to retire this old fool and find another old fool
“No. I don’t think she’s abandoning her ideals. I think she’s trying to be pragmatic and doing what she thinks is right in order to win the election.”
Fact check completed
-PJ
Only you can prevent farce liars.
I don’t think so. Trump is guilty of being pragmatic as well.
I noticed in particular that ABC’s Rachel Scott has no problem saying that Trump made “false” statements about the 2020 election. Now we have Bernie Sanders saying Harris is merely being “pragmatic” in doing what she needs to do to win an election. Why does Rachel Scott have a problem in saying that Harris is “lying” about her positions on a ban on fracking and medicare for all (getting rid of private health insurance)? ABC is surely not winning over conservative voters with this bias against Trump.
She not a real communist like Sanders?
She’s not a real communist like Sanders?
I think the only time I can think a prog democrat has told the truth was Barry Soetero saying he will “fundamentally transform America.”
I doubt Venezuelan gangsters will be sent to his neighborhood.
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