Posted on 02/29/2016 12:11:36 PM PST by Jack Black
The context of the amazing outpouring and response to Bernie Sanders campaign is the uprising underway for a more just society. Across the country, pressure is mounting and social movements are building for a livable wage, to end racist attacks and police brutality, to stop fast track for TPP in the interest of jobs, the environment and democratic rights over corporate rule, to expand Social Security and end student debt.
Bernie Sanders is attracting thousands at each event because he presents a specific program squarely on the side of the 99%, challenging income inequality and financial domination of the country and of politics.
His campaign is shaking up the political landscape, "a political revolution,"as he says.
Bernie Sanders is getting a big response from people who are sick and tired of elections being bought by Wall St, people who have become angry and alienated from the political process, people who have been looking for a voice. His appeal is wide. Reports from grassroots house meetings and rallies in the south and mid west reveal that some Democratic leaders are on board, and some independents and Republicans are changing affiliation to support Bernie.
While all the points in his program have long had majority support in the polls, Bernie himself has said that he is stunned by the huge turnouts as he campaigns around the country. Days after he announced, the Wisconsin Democratic convention held a straw poll. Hillary Clinton was chosen by 49% and Bernie Sanders was chosen by 41% of delegates.
(Excerpt) Read more at cpusa.org ...
The Sanders campaign is a wonderful development for 2016 and beyond in many ways.At the grass roots across the country, Bernie Sanders is not necessarily a household name. As well, the corporate media does not want this name and program to be known. Introducing who Bernie Sanders is, what positions he is running on, and the bigger significance of his campaign cam be brought to every community in a way that is inclusive of those in progressive circles who support Hillary Clinton or others.
For those not familiar with the CP-USA, it is the most hardline of American Communist groups and was directly controlled by the USSR from it's inception until the fall of the USSR. Even the brief and whitewashed history available on Wikipedia makes it clear that the CP-USA was closely allied with Stalin and the USSR in the Cold War period. From Wikipedia:
The Party's membership in the Comintern and its close adherence to the political positions of the Soviet Union made the party appear to most Americans as not only a threatening, subversive domestic entity, but also as a foreign agent fundamentally alien to the American way of life.
Funny the NY Daily News, which has ample space for promoting every wack-job cartoon character endorsing Trump, has yet to report on the CP-USA strong support for Sanders, going so far as instructing members on how to organize for him.
Smoking gun: YES.
Mainstream media reporting: NO.
Quick, get him on TV and demand that he renounce the endorsement!
Can we “officially” call him a “Commie” now?
He should disavow any association with this hate group.
In other news, pope is catholic and water is wet.
Well stune my Beiber! Commies endorse a Commie.
The atheist organizations are also getting all Berned up.
What!!! Forfeit the election!!!! He must be disqualified!!!!
Is anyone surprised?
With this Pope, I'm not so sure of that.
If I am not mistaken, they also endorsed 0bama twice. According to most rating organizations, in 2007, Bernie was not the “most leftist” on the rating scales of United States Senators.
The junior senator from Illinois beat him by voting more conisistently “left” than he did.
Just Monday afternoon food for thought.
I’m no Jean Dixon, but I saw this coming...
Stevie Wonder saw it coming.
LOL
send this link to Tulsi Gabbard ,who also just endorsed Sanders today
https://www.facebook.com/VoteTulsi
LoL
Darn you...
Your line was better!
If it encourages Bernie to run Third-Party, then it’s all good.
The last nail in the coffin
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