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Bernie Sanders Seems Busier Pursuing Progressive Laws Than the Presidency
And he has gotten little help from the DNC or Chuck and Nancy.
Sanders and key advisers met in January to talk about 2020, but we’ve yet to hear results. Nor has he issued a “call-to-campaign” to those supporters in progressive movements after he lost the 2016 Democratic nomination. Only a few months remain until the 2020 primary season begins. Meanwhile, uneasy leaders of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) are still waiting for him to turn over his invaluable email lists of supporters.
In tracing his actions since 2016, it’s difficult not to conclude that he’s working harder on voter pressure to get new and progressive Democrats in Congress to pass those planks into law, despite monumental opposition from Democratic Party leaders, rather than making another exhausting and expensive run for president.
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The colossal crowds cheering those planks so alarmed the DNC, the Clinton campaign, and the corporate donors he attacked, that it was decided to cut him off at the knees with any tactics, according to Shattered. The mainstream media’s near-blackout also helped. Particularly infuriating to his Democratic rivals were all those $27 donations from voters, which yielded $228 million. The DNC and Clinton still refuse to concede that their favoring of the moneyed classes instead of the party’s middle and working classes was one reason Trump won the election.
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And signs point to this likelihood. In the first rally of an eight-state tour at a packed Portland, Maine, theater last April, Sanders drew the usual chants and a thunderous two-minute ovation when introduced, followed by cheers on the planks. To the shock of the DNC and Clinton’s team, Perez drew boos, indicating the audience knew the party was not unified.
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The New York Times’s tart-tongued political writer Maureen Dowd put the capper on the DNC’s senseless swerve from its roots to the “haves” and loss of the millions of “have-not” voters who want those planks:
They are not grooming a gleaming crop of presidential contenders or honing a seductive message that could win back the alienated voters who put Trump in just because he promised to shake things up. Their leadership and top presidential prospects symbolize the past, not the future. They should be the eminences grises ushering in an exciting new generation. Not the retreads and missed-their-moments dominating the field, as the entire party is leaping to the left …
And signs point to this likelihood. In the first rally of an eight-state tour at a packed Portland, Maine, theater last April, Sanders drew the usual chants and a thunderous two-minute ovation when introduced, followed by cheers on the planks. To the shock of the DNC and Clinton’s team, Perez drew boos, indicating the audience knew the party was not unified.
Further disunity followed. Medicare for All was one of the first planks axed by party leaders to placate health insurance industry donors who have spent millions fighting universal health care since President Truman first advocated it in 1945. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has opposed it with the constant refrain of: “The comfort level with the broader base of the American people [for Medicare for All] is not there yet.” However, the latest credible poll reveals that 74 percent of Democrats and (51 percent of all voters) want Medicare for All.
Meanwhile, Pelosi has received $235,817 so far this year from the health care industry. Her Senate counterpart, Chuck Schumer, also opposing Medicare for All, has received $1,795,844.
Effort Aimed at Replacing Non-Progressives in Congress
The New York Times’s tart-tongued political writer Maureen Dowd put the capper on the DNC’s senseless swerve from its roots to the “haves” and loss of the millions of “have-not” voters who want those planks:
"They are not grooming a gleaming crop of presidential contenders or honing a seductive message that could win back the alienated voters who put Trump in just because he promised to shake things up. Their leadership and top presidential prospects symbolize the past, not the future. They should be the eminences grises ushering in an exciting new generation. Not the retreads and missed-their-moments dominating the field, as the entire party is leaping to the left …"
Having led the cheerleading, encouragement and cash for progressive candidates, the senator from Vermont and his aides have been producing bills for those planks since 2016. Sanders has hoppered 22 so far and made them well-known to colleagues by inviting them to become co-sponsors of each. Moreover, he’s on five committees and eight subcommittees that will be processing many of them.
His planks include Medicare for All, a $15 minimum wage, fixing infrastructure, free tuition for higher education, expanding Social Security, equal pay for women, consumer financial protection and more. In recent months, he has added to this list of priorities campaign finance reform, civil liberties protection, lowering prescription prices, expanding veterans’ care, controls over media ownership and telecommunications, and investment in renewable energy. Sanders has also recently introduced sweeping legislation to protect workers.
And he has gotten little help from the DNC or Chuck and Nancy.
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