PHONY “POPULIST” BERNIE SANDERS
For all of his talk about leading “political revolution” against
the “billionaire class,” Sanders backed Clinton, a shill of
Wall Street and
the Pentagon, who has nothing but contempt for the tens of
millions
of workers devastated by the 2008 financial crash and Obama’s
pro-
corporate policies.
Wealth concentration increases in US.
American
middle class is officially declared dead and buried!
The latest research on wealth inequality by University of California
economics professor Gabriel Zucman underscores one of the key social and
economic trends since the global financial crisis of 2008. Those at the very
top of society, who benefited directly from the orgy of speculation that led to
the crash, have seen their wealth accumulate at an even faster rate, while the
mass of the population has suffered a major decline.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a progressive who ran a formidable campaign for President of the United States in 2016, but ultimately lost to Democrat primary rival Hillary Clinton, announced Tuesday morning he is launching a second run for the White House in 2020.
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“Our campaign is not only about defeating Donald Trump,” the 77-year-old self-described democrat socialist said in an email to supporters. “Our campaign is about transforming our country and creating a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice.”
Sanders, who enthusiastically embraces proposals ranging from Medicare for All to free college tuition, stunned the Democrat establishment in 2016 with his spirited challenge to Clinton. While she became the party’s nominee, his campaign helped lay the groundwork for the leftward lurch that has dominated Democratic politics in the Trump era.
Still, there is no question that Sanders will be a strong contender for the Democratic nomination. He won more than 13 million votes in 2016 and dozens of primaries and caucuses. He opens his campaign with a nationwide organization and a proven small-dollar fundraising effort.
In a Tuesday morning interview with CBS This Morning, Sanders said it is “absolutely imperative that Donald Trump be defeated” because his presidency is “un-American.”
“It is absolutely imperative that Donald Trump be defeated because I think it is unacceptable and un-American, to be frank with you, that we have a president who is a pathological liar and it gives me no pleasure to say that, but it’s true,” the lawmaker toldinterviewer John Dickerson. “We have a president who is a racist, who is a sexist, who is a xenophobe, who is doing what no president in our lifetimes has come close to do doing, and that is trying to divide us up,” Sanders added.
He said he was going to launch “what I think is unprecedented in modern American history”: a grassroots movement “to lay the groundwork for transforming the economic and political life of this country.”
“All of those ideas people were saying, ‘Oh Bernie, they’re so radical. They are extreme. The American people just won’t accept those ideas,’” said Sanders. “Well, you know what’s happened in over three years? All of those ideas and many more are now part of the political mainstream.”
One of the biggest questions surrounding Sanders’ candidacy is how he will compete against someone like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who shares many of his policy goals. Warren has already launched her campaign and has planned an aggressive swing through the early primary states.
The growing Democrat presidential field also includes Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Cory Booker (D-NY), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Obama-era HUD Secretary Julian Castro. Former Vice President Joe Biden and former Rep. Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke (D-TX) are also mulling White House bids of there own.
A recently released poll via the Saint Anselm College Survey Center at the New Hampshire Insititute of Politics, said Sanders, Biden, and Harris are most favored by New Hampshire voters ahead of the 2020 Democrat presidential primary.
Breitbart News’ Kyle Morris reported:
Of the 600 surveyed, 258 respondents indicated they would vote in the primary. The phone survey then presented them with names of those running for the Democratic presidential nomination, or those that have indicated that they are strongly considering it, and asked them to give their impression of each.Of the 14 names listed, former Vice President Biden had the highest favorability at 80 percent, while Sanders notched 65.3 percent.
A Morning Consult poll published last week shows Biden and Sanders leading the pack of White House hopefuls.
Biden topped the list of contenders with 29 percent from likely voters, while Sanders garnered 22 percent.
Biden topped the list of contenders with 29 percent from likely voters, while Sanders garnered 22 percent.
While Sanders had been working to lay the groundwork for a second campaign for months, it was unclear whether he will be able to expand his appeal beyond his largely white base of supporters. In 2016, Sanders notably struggled to garner support from black voters, an issue that could become particularly pervasive during a primary race that could include several non-white candidates.
Sanders also faces different pressures in the #MeToo era. Some of his male staffers and supporters in 2016 were described as “Bernie bros” for their treatment of women.
In the run-up to Sanders’ 2020 announcement, persistent allegations emerged of sexual harassment of women by male staffers during his 2016 campaign. Politico and The New York Times reported several allegations of unwanted sexual advances and pay inequity.
Robert Becker, who managed Sanders’ Iowa campaign, was accused of forcibly kissing a young female staffer during the Democrat National Convention. The top Sanders aide allegedly told the unidentified female staffer in her 20s that he wanted to have sex with her, making a reference about riding his “pole,” three other individuals who say they witnessed the incident or were told about it moments later by those who saw it. Hours later, Becker is said to have abruptly grabbed the woman’s wrists and forcibly kissed her, shoving his tongue in her mouth.
In an interview with CNN after the initial allegations surfaced, Sanders apologized but also noted he was “a little busy running around the country trying to make the case.”
“I am not going to sit here and tell you that we did everything right in terms of human resources, in terms of addressing the needs that I am hearing from now that women felt disrespected, that there was sexual harassment, which was not dealt with as effectively as possible,” 2020 candidate told host Anderson Cooper.
As additional allegations emerged, he offered a more unequivocal apology.
“What they experienced was absolutely unacceptable and certainly not what a progressive campaign — or any campaign — should be about,” Sanders told reporters on Capitol Hill. “Every woman in this country who goes to work today or tomorrow has the right to make sure that she is working in an environment which is free of harassment, which is safe and is comfortable, and I will do my best to make that happen.”
In a statement emailed to Breitbart News, Republican National Committee spokesperson Michael Ahrens said of the Independent Vermont senator’s bid: “Bernie Sanders is a self-avowed socialist who wants to double your taxes so the government can take over your health care. The vast majority of voters oppose his radical agenda, just like they are going to oppose all the 2020 Democrats who have rushed to embrace it.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Trump declares global war on socialism
US President Donald Trump unleashed a global tirade against socialism at a Florida university Monday, in which he targeted Venezuela as the front line in this fascistic crusade.
Delivered to a hand-picked audience of Republican operatives and right-wing Venezuelan and Cuban exiles chanting “USA, USA, USA” and “Trump, Trump, Trump,” both the speech—and the response to it—had a fascistic character. It resurrected the language not only of McCarthyism and the John Birch Society in the United States of the 1950s, but that of Mussolini and Hitler in the Europe of the 1930s.
Mimicking the fascist dictators, the president’s hysterical antisocialism was combined with imperialist warmongering. Trump delivered an ultimatum to the Venezuelan military to either capitulate to US regime-change or be slaughtered. He made it clear that Washington views the coup against the government of Nicolas Maduro as only the first step in a hemisphere-wide war to overthrow the governments of Nicaragua and Cuba and eradicate the growing influence of the United States' geopolitical rivals—China and Russia—in Latin America.
For Trump, the speech in Miami no doubt represented one of the first salvos in his 2020 election campaign, in which he intends to mobilize the most ultra-right elements in the United States. He intends to place the Democrats on the defensive, compelling them to deny any connection to “socialism” or “leftism.” He is likewise counting on their congenital cowardice: that none of them will come out to warn the American people that the man in the White House has—as aides have revealed—studied the speeches and writings of Adolf Hitler and is carrying out policies that lead to outright dictatorship and police-state repression.
Trump’s speech, replete with vows of a global crusade against “communism and socialism,” reflected growing fears within the US ruling oligarchy—not of the insipid politics of the likes of Bernie Sanders or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—but rather of a dangerous challenge from below to their power and wealth. This ruling layer is rattled by a steady growth of strikes, including those breaking out in opposition to the existing unions, as well a widespread radicalization of both workers and youth. Recent polls have increasingly expressed the preference of the younger generation for socialism over capitalism. This fear among America’s billionaires and multimillionaires provides a core constituency for the fascistic agenda being promulgated by Donald Trump.
The speech also comes only a few days after the declaration of a state of emergency, whose immediate purpose is to utilize the military to build a wall along the US-Mexico border. However, the implications are far broader. The declaration is a frontal assault on core constitutional norms and democratic rights, targeted at the growth of social opposition within the United States. Trump and his chief advisors are operating off a fascist playbook.
In his anticommunist tirade, Trump declared that “socialism by its very nature does not respect borders,” and is “always seeking to expand,” a complaint that reflects fears within the ruling class of the growing international movement of the working class. This includes the outbreak of strikes by Mexican workers in maquiladora plants that feed the US auto industry on the same US border that Trump wants to wall off.
Against this incipient expression of the international unity of the working class, Trump spouts the poison of nationalism and xenophobia, echoing the fascists of the 1930s.
“The twilight hour of socialism has arrived in our hemisphere,” Trump recited from a speech that was drafted by his fascistic aide Stephen Miller.
Socialism, he proclaimed, was “about one thing only, power for the ruling class.” It delivered, he said, only “corruption, exploitation and decay.” How this definition differed in the slightest from the government and the social order over which he himself presides, Trump failed to explain.
In relation to Venezuela, Trump declared in his speech that Washington seeks “a peaceful transfer of power, but all options are open.”
This direct threat of a US military intervention comes as the Pentagon has become increasingly involved in a transparent provocation on Venezuela’s border, using US Air Force C-17 cargo planes to fly cargos that are described as “humanitarian aid” into the Colombian border city of Cúcuta. Washington has a well known record of employing similar “humanitarian” charades in Central America and elsewhere as a means of delivering arms to terrorist forces.
The aim of the stockpiling of USAID supplies on the border is to provoke a confrontation with the Venezuelan military that can then be used as the pretext for direct US military intervention.
Trump’s fusion of US imperialism’s ambition to enslave Latin America with rabid anticommunism must lead, if not stopped, to a hemispheric war and mass repression within the US.
Within this political context, special note should be taken of Trump’s increasingly violent threats against those whom he perceives as his personal enemies. His demand for “retribution” against Alec Baldwin, whose latest Saturday Night Live parody of Trump angered the president, was nothing less than an incitement for a physical assault on the actor. This political episode must be taken seriously. However, as is to be expected, the threat against Baldwin, as well as Trump’s tirade in Florida, was ignored in the Monday evening news broadcasts of the major television networks.
HERITAGE FOUNDATION:
AMNESTY
WOULD DOUBLE U.S. POPULATION, POVERTY, HOUSING AND HOMELESS CRISIS
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2010/03/heritage-foundation-amnesty-would-add.html
"Critics argue that giving amnesty to 12 to 30 million illegal aliens in the U.S. would have an immediate negative impact on America’s working and middle class — specifically black Americans and the white working class — who would be in direct competition for blue-collar jobs with the largely low-skilled Illegal alien population." JOHN BINDER
"Additionally, under current
legal immigration laws, if given amnesty, the illegal alien population would be
allowed to bring an unlimited number of their foreign relatives to the U.S.
This population could boost already high legal immigration levels to an
unprecedented high. An amnesty for illegal aliens would also likely triple the
number of border-crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border." JOHN BINDER
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