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WOLF: Do you see @Ocasio2018 and others as "taking over" the Democratic Party?

BERNIE SANDERS: That's not the way I look at it... I see it as Alexandria running a campaign focused on the issues of importance -- guaranteeing health care as a right, raising the minimum wage...
Bernie doesn't unequivocally endorse abolition of ICE but says, "I think this disastrous immigration policy should be abolished...What you have is an immigration policy that I think most Americans understand is not what this country is about...ripping children from their parents"
Asked if he supports impeaching Trump, Sanders says, "I'm a member of the Senate. If impeachment proceedings go forward, I'm going to be judging that. So it's premature to be calling for his impeachment. Second of all, we have the Mueller investigation, which is ongoing."
SANDERS: "The real issue is not 'establishment' or not, it's what do people stand for. There are people in 'establishment' who fight every day for working people. I respect them & support them. There are ppl in the establishment who are owned by corporate interests. I fight them"
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<Thread> Recently someone asked me what is the deal with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? Before I share my thoughts, I will disclose I donated to her campaign and I have also been critical of some of her comments. Women like Alexandria are a threat to the status-quo, she is a woman...
of color who unseated an incumbent without having to kiss the ring of major donors or establishment Democrats. She baffles people on the Left and terrifies people on the Right. She uses social media better than any other politician, and she makes politics seem cool. ...
What 50+ year-old can compete against that? So if you know you cannot compete, what do you? You first paint her as the face of the Democratic Party, and then you attack her repeatedly. It’s not about stopping Alexandria specifically, she is just one Congresswoman from a...
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I have a few things to say about this piece that just dropped...

Why the #Bernie Movement Must Crush #BetoORourke
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
The insistence by white male writers that there is a two-white-man race out there between Bernie & Beto is so deeply, stunningly misogynist, it takes my breath away.

How is it POSSIBLE that these folks missed the blue wave which was fundamentally female--driven by women voters?
Not just driven by women voters, but driven by women candidates. Left-leaning women candidates, including WOC who ousted long-time older white male incumbents like....Bernie Sanders.

How is anyone missing this fact?
It's a major reason why Sanders' numbers have plummeted.
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How dumb do folk like @ChrisLHayes look? You made a big deal of #Ocasio supporting Bernie-Backed candidates. Yesterday, Chris Hayes said twice #ElSayed had earned the backing of Bernie but the front runner was #Whitmer who had been in politics for a while, "the Establishment".
@ChrisLHayes even had the gall to have El-Sayed on his show on Monday. What possessed him to do such a thing. What narrative was he trying to set? Come on, it wasn't even close. He got walloped.
The press fawned over #Ocasio who won a low turnout primary in a district where the demographics mean she should've won. She thought she had some magic juice to sprinkle & took her ass to campaign with a man, instead of being humble & working on her race. He got whooped.
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Defining “Socialist” isn’t hard. You just have to read their work & listen to their leaders

And what you’ll find is frightening

Worse yet, the Dem Socialists of America (DSA) actually has a good shot of gaining power if we don’t wake up & fight back

Let’s read their plan: 1/17
.@DemSocialists want to abolish capitalism and transfer ownership of “essential” industries / related businesses to the govt or worker committees.

Why?

“Wealth is a social creation and should be controlled by society as a whole.”

(bit.ly/2vfQ7E5)
DSA’ers are squishy when defining which industries they’d nationalize. But the list touches every possible business, from food to electronics

Workers would then vote on which role is best for them, similar to the disastrous experiment at Zappos in 2016. (bit.ly/2DKlGNd)
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Saboteur.
Why is Bernie Sanders out here acting as if there's a poll tax to join the Democratic Party
Bernie Sanders and his cult of angry, grudge holding saboteurs are trying to destroy the Democratic Party from within while party leaders are afraid they'll be called uncivil if they openly challenge and rebuke him for abusing decades of party hospitality.
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allow me to explain:

first thing to realize is that compromise usually involved splitting the difference (e.g. arbitration -- if you've ever been privy, you know exactly what i mean).

next you need to understate that starting positions matter
now we come to the republicans..

they know to start out WAY to the right of anything sane

democrats, being slightly more reasonable tend to open with somthing they thing will win the other side over to their POV.

... it ... will ... not ....

so this happens.
after a few years of this (say since 1980) you end up with both parties being FAR to the right of anything that a rational person would consider CENTER

enter #bernie sanders and his populist, moderate policy positions like #medicareforall or raising the minimum wage
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