http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/opinion/campaign-stops/bernie-sanders-democrats-need-to-wake-up.html
By BERNIE SANDERS
JUNE 28, 2016
Bernie Sanders: Democrats Need to Wake Up
Surprise, surprise. Workers in Britain, many of whom have seen a decline in their standard of living while the very rich in their country have become much richer, have turned their backs on the European Union and a globalized economy that is failing them and their children.
And it’s not just the British who are suffering. That increasingly globalized economy, established and maintained by the world’s economic elite, is failing people everywhere. Incredibly, the wealthiest 62 people on this planet own as much wealth as the bottom half of the world’s population — around 3.6 billion people. The top 1 percent now owns more wealth than the whole of the bottom 99 percent. The very, very rich enjoy unimaginable luxury while billions of people endure abject poverty, unemployment, and inadequate health care, education, housing and drinking water.
Could this rejection of the current form of the global economy happen in the United States? You bet it could.
cont.
>>79174957
During my campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, I’ve visited 46 states. What I saw and heard on too many occasions were painful realities that the political and media establishment fail even to recognize.
In the last 15 years, nearly 60,000 factories in this country have closed, and more than 4.8 million well-paid manufacturing jobs have disappeared. Much of this is related to disastrous trade agreements that encourage corporations to move to low-wage countries.
Despite major increases in productivity, the median male worker in America today is making $726 dollars less than he did in 1973, while the median female worker is making $1,154 less than she did in 2007, after adjusting for inflation.
Nearly 47 million Americans live in poverty. An estimated 28 million have no health insurance, while many others are underinsured. Millions of people are struggling with outrageous levels of student debt. For perhaps the first time in modern history, our younger generation will probably have a lower standard of living than their parents. Frighteningly, millions of poorly educated Americans will have a shorter life span than the previous generation as they succumb to despair, drugs and alcohol.
Meanwhile, in our country the top one-tenth of 1 percent now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. Fifty-eight percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent. Wall Street and billionaires, through their “super PACs,” are able to buy elections.
cont.
>>79175049
On my campaign, I’ve talked to workers unable to make it on $8 or $9 an hour; retirees struggling to purchase the medicine they need on $9,000 a year of Social Security; young people unable to afford college. I also visited the American citizens of Puerto Rico, where some 58 percent of the children live in poverty and only a little more than 40 percent of the adult population has a job or is seeking one.
Let’s be clear. The global economy is not working for the majority of people in our country and the world. This is an economic model developed by the economic elite to benefit the economic elite. We need real change.
But we do not need change based on the demagogy, bigotry and anti-immigrant sentiment that punctuated so much of the Leave campaign’s rhetoric — and is central to Donald J. Trump’s message.
We need a president who will vigorously support international cooperation that brings the people of the world closer together, reduces hypernationalism and decreases the possibility of war. We also need a president who respects the democratic rights of the people, and who will fight for an economy that protects the interests of working people, not just Wall Street, the drug companies and other powerful special interests.
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Should've memed this guy instead.
Now you're stuck with a corporate globalist and a literal criminal.
>>79175115
We need to fundamentally reject our “free trade” policies and move to fair trade. Americans should not have to compete against workers in low-wage countries who earn pennies an hour. We must defeat the Trans-Pacific Partnership. We must help poor countries develop sustainable economic models.
We need to end the international scandal in which large corporations and the wealthy avoid paying trillions of dollars in taxes to their national governments.
We need to create tens of millions of jobs worldwide by combating global climate change and by transforming the world’s energy system away from fossil fuels.
We need international efforts to cut military spending around the globe and address the causes of war: poverty, hatred, hopelessness and ignorance.
The notion that Donald Trump could benefit from the same forces that gave the Leave proponents a majority in Britain should sound an alarm for the Democratic Party in the United States. Millions of American voters, like the Leave supporters, are understandably angry and frustrated by the economic forces that are destroying the middle class.
In this pivotal moment, the Democratic Party and a new Democratic president need to make clear that we stand with those who are struggling and who have been left behind. We must create national and global economies that work for all, not just a handful of billionaires.
FIN
Say what you want, but Sanders was the only real alternative to Trump.
I can see why Trump went up so much. I'm Italian, we had Berlusconi. It was exactly the same for us, and those guys are pure communication geniuses. Will they keep their promises? Berlusconi didn't, who knows if Trump will. That's the real question.
But Hillary? Seriously burgers?
A Goldman Sachs globalist puppet?
Literally female Obongo?
Fucking hell guys. Her beating Sanders shocked me much more than Trump's rise.
If you exclude the obligatory castigation of Trump's supposed "racism," this lines up almost perfectly with Trump's policy platform. I'm really hoping some Sanders supporters will have the epiphany that Trump represents their interests far more than Hillary does.
If only there was a way to morph bernie and trump together to form a natsoc movement...
>>79177116
>If only there was a way to morph bernie and trump together to form a natsoc movement...
I suggest before that Trump really ought to offer the Vice President position to Sanders, as Hillary was already destined to win the Dem nomination before Sanders even threw his hat into the ring and Trump (and Americans) would benefit from having Sanders on his team, instead of a bunch of "yes men".
>>79175486
>But Hillary? Seriously burgers?
>A Goldman Sachs globalist puppet?
It would be laughable, if it wasn't so serious but the same people who were protesting Bush II via Occupy Wall Street, are now planning on voting for Hillary, a blatant puppet of the Global Corporate Nobility...
>the wealthiest 62 people on this planet own as much wealth as the bottom half of the world’s population
Who gives a fuck about "the world's population", though? People care about their own countries, not a bunch of niggers in Congo mudhuts.
>>79178818
so is sanders basically endorsing trump now?
>>79178818
i have to agree with jidf on this, I think israel should look after themselves as well, why the fuck do they even need their """greatest ally""" and the holocaust industry?
>>79179430
He thinks Trump's immigration policy is racist
>>79178446
I know a lot of the right would be screaming about "socialism", and the left would be screaming about "racism", but i think each could make slight concessions to make it work.
I think they arent really that far apart on many things.
>>79175135
>a corporate globalist and a literal criminal.
Dude, the USA's presidential election has TWO candidates. You forgot about Trumo.
>>79179430
thats what ive been reading too
>>79175486
Sanders didnt appeal to the working class like he claims to. He appealed to kids and college students who want free shit and tuition, these are the same people who would have voted remain.
>>79174957
bernie should just man up and endorse Trump
hes better for American citizens than Hillary
>>79179430
has bernie redeemed himself?
>>79174957
Bernie is a closet Trump supporter
Why cant Bernouts see Bernie that is more like Trump then Hillary.
Are they that retarded?
>>79179994
which is why i guess he's looking a bit fucking schizo with this. noone of the FEEL THE BERN fags on my kikebook have put a like or even seemed to read the article that i posted.
>tfw you end up being leftier than those who claim they're lefties nowadays
>tfw i just want to live inna woods with a dog a rifle and a redhead gf
>>79179446
>why the fuck do they even need their """greatest ally""" and the holocaust industry?
Because American gives them literally BILLIONS of dollars every year simply because they're Jews.
Why would anyone turn down free money?
>>79178446
>implying Trump has the ability to work with anyone who isn't a "yes man"
He's literally told his own party he'll campaign without them if they don't get in line
Pretty sure we are being controlled by aliens.
>>79180255
only if he rejects clinton and officially endorses trump. More of bernie's policy goals are reflected in trump than the current DNC party platform. as soon as bernie quit the DNC ignored him. hopefully bernie can get over the, "trump's a racist meanie" shit and start thinking with his head.
>>79179994
college kids are memes, they barely vote
bernie won Michigan, ect
>calls for ending globalism
>calls people bigots and racists that do it
this fuckin guy...
>>79179430
He's dividing his endorsement and actually staying true to his message.
I am a Trump guy but agree with some of the things Sanders has been saying ( and they tend to be mostly the things Trump has been saying. I also support universal healthcare, and higher min wage, and am closer to Sanders than Trump on abortion. )
I'm a bit National Socialist, but not too far in the direction of Socialist. Just a bit.
>>79179696
Trump gets working class national socialist Sanders supporters who don't want their social rights taken away, and this brings Trump to the left, now having a mix of right/left supporters that he can't afford to alienate, which quells fears about him.
Hillary gets antifa thugs who become a liability
Can't wait.
>>79176713
So much this. If not for those two seemingly off-topic paragraphs this could have come straight from the Emperor's desk. When Bernie puts on the red hat and starts campaigning with Trump, it's over
>>79180583
Fuck i wish Sanders wasn't such a cuck. Im sure if he said what he teally thought about Trump, he would be working with him against Clinton
>>79181380
the only reason i would support a trump/sanders ticket is because it would ensure a clinton defeat
>>79181794
Probably won't happen since Trump would be a dead man. Some fucktard would off him.
Bernie is pretty based.
>>79174957
the world's gone topsy fucking turvy
all the upper class brexiteers are arguing the economic policy angle, while the champagne socialists are calling it racist, only for the champagne socialist jesus himself, Sanders, to stand up and say "nah it's econommic m8".
what grave days to be a liberal. their minds must be going into full meltdown.
>>79182091
>Probably won't happen since Trump would be a dead man. Some fucktard would off him.
Maybe, but it prove beyond a doubt that both Trump and Sanders aren't puppets and they'd win in a massive landslide.
LIBERAL NATIONAL SOCIALIST
This is something I can get behind.
Wish he could see eye-eye with Trump so he accepts a VP ticket.
>>79184307
>>79182091
There would be no point in offing them.
The Globalists would give up at this point, rename, relocate, and try try again.
Andrew Jackson kicked the Rothschilds out of America, they went low for a while and waited 50 years later.
>says all this shit
>btw guys im voting for hillary
Yeah, whatever Bernie
>>79180422
I don't even mind that so much because you guys either buy from our arms manufacturers or develop your own arms innovation that we can buy. Now if only you would stop trying to steal our IP, trade secrets, and national security secrets, we could be cool.
