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Omaha Steve

(99,618 posts)
Sun Aug 24, 2014, 09:13 PM Aug 2014

Sanders to Iowa AFL-CIO: It's Time for a Political Revolution




Published on Aug 22, 2014

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) recorded a video address for the Iowa AFL-CIO's annual meeting. He talked about the need to address the crisis of income and wealth inequality, create millions of new jobs through the rebuilding of our crumbling infrastructure, raise the minimum wage, overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision and end our disastrous trade policies. He also called for a political revolution that will get millions of people involved in the political process.

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Sanders to Iowa AFL-CIO: It's Time for a Political Revolution (Original Post) Omaha Steve Aug 2014 OP
kicking rurallib Aug 2014 #1
Thank You For Sharing cantbeserious Aug 2014 #2
Thanks for posting this Autumn Aug 2014 #3
Go Bernie montanacowboy Aug 2014 #4
Thanks Steve-- Jackpine Radical Aug 2014 #5
Bernie! 840high Aug 2014 #6
K&R!!! He had me at Publicly Funded Elections! I said I was tired of voting the lesser of Dustlawyer Aug 2014 #7
You won't hear any of this From Hillery... raindaddy Aug 2014 #8
Sanders sounds like every other Democrat, except... Shemp Howard Aug 2014 #9
Kick and rec n/t emulatorloo Aug 2014 #10
Great speech! JDPriestly Aug 2014 #11
Public servants vs. politicians. merrily Aug 2014 #12
Kicked and recommended a whole bunch! Enthusiast Aug 2014 #13
K&R for Mr. Sanders! logosoco Aug 2014 #14
Thank you Steve. dotymed Aug 2014 #15
When Bernie speaks Plucketeer Aug 2014 #16
Bernie will succumb to reality polynomial Aug 2014 #17
I have a better idea silenttigersong Aug 2014 #18

Autumn

(45,066 posts)
3. Thanks for posting this
Sun Aug 24, 2014, 09:39 PM
Aug 2014

K&R for Bernie, out front and center yelling for that political revolution that we need. Run Bernie.

Shemp Howard

(889 posts)
9. Sanders sounds like every other Democrat, except...
Mon Aug 25, 2014, 12:19 AM
Aug 2014

Sanders actually believes in what he says. Look at his voting record. Look at his net worth.

Sanders has one of the lowest net worths in Congress. Why is that? He will not take money from fat-cat special interest groups (bribes). And he will not take huge speaking fees (bribes).

Sanders is one of the very few honest politicians in DC. And he is one of the very few who really care about working people.

Side note to Omaha Steve: Your 2016 campaign poster says Warren/Sanders. May I suggest a nod to experience: Sanders/Warren.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
12. Public servants vs. politicians.
Mon Aug 25, 2014, 03:55 AM
Aug 2014

We need some kind of something. They system could not be more broken. Of course, absence of real change is the wet dream of every conservative. So, leftists are the most frustrated by gridlock.

Also, this was the AFL-CIO. Much as union leaders have been in the corner of Democrats historically, that has been a little less true lately. They have not switched to Republican, though.

The rank and file is another story. More and more are switching. Only God knows why. My theory is that, if you don't see a lot of difference between the two largest parties, you are going to vote for the one you trust most not to raise your taxes.

It's odd. As more and more on the left bemoan the absence of sufficient difference, more and more on the right are convinced that the two largest parties could not possibly be more different.

logosoco

(3,208 posts)
14. K&R for Mr. Sanders!
Mon Aug 25, 2014, 11:57 AM
Aug 2014

If Hillary would listen to this and see that it is really what the country actually needs, we could have our first woman president.

We could possibly have our first woman president, but if she does not listen to the things Mr. Sanders is talking about here, it will be the same old, same old for the citizens of this country.

dotymed

(5,610 posts)
15. Thank you Steve.
Mon Aug 25, 2014, 12:31 PM
Aug 2014

Bernie has been the most consistent advocate for the vast majority of Americans since 1991 and he is still the best public servant that I have seen. Ms. Warren has been great also but not as experienced.
If Bernie runs, no matter what party, any American who does not vote for him, IMO, is not for the citizens.

polynomial

(750 posts)
17. Bernie will succumb to reality
Mon Aug 25, 2014, 01:45 PM
Aug 2014

The American system is so screwed up anyone with the good nature can be terrified and extorted by the money that runs the system.

Bernie will eventually succumb to this reality. He has my vote, but knowing this past history in mainstream media political ventriloquism, America will as Bernie said have a tough time in the political change.

There are way too many rich intellectuals just on the sidelines that don’t want to rock the boat. That’s the part of the one percent that make it difficult.


President Obama is continuously bombarded with alternatives that are bitter sweet with very small opportunities going to the middle class.

Trillions of dollars have been squandered in bail outs, secret Federal payouts, International monetary funds, secret banking schemes via Cayman Islands, secret Swiss bank accounts, corporate money laundering, decades for war profiteering with the electorate suffering.


But something is happening, the Republican that has been dancing in obstruction for years against perfecting or improving health care, and climate change more obvious with five inch rains, or quick storms within fifteen minutes is way different today and change is hard to accept but inevitable. Just as climate change destroys many homes or whole communities within a few minutes may very well be a sign from God to what is next for the Republican Obstructionist.

The one percent need to be taken out to the wood shed.

As President Obama once said there is no place in this new millennium for characters like that Islamic type that cuts some ones throat as reprisal for their belief in religion or that incredible pathological determination revealing a deep dark antithetic respect for life to rip open someones throat.

The Republicans take away your personal choices in the American political structure, so too does that severe Islamic interpretation of God, it is way too evil to think the throat needs to be ripped open to show everyone the system of life is working but actually broken. It is not Gods will that does the atrocity, it’s mans greed!

For the world to witness a man having his throat cut for the support of God is the poorest worn dirty miserable morbid mental deranged seed of life. Worse knowing American young minds are secretly moving towards this strange attractor.

Bernie would make a good president and Hillary should there as the choice for Vice president. Either way the American electorate needs to make a trail for change.

silenttigersong

(957 posts)
18. I have a better idea
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 11:51 AM
Aug 2014

How about we give those shovel jobs to the criminals on wall street for community service?Why should anyone be willing to build infrastructure for the corporations that destroyed it,at 10.10 an hour really...JUSTICE FIRST

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