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Related: About this forumWatch Bernie Sanders' Full Speech in Philadelphia: The Future of American Democracy is at Risk
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: Thank you, Philadelphia! Sheldon, thanks very much for that introduction, and as I think Sheldon mentioned to you, Im going to chat for three or four hours. Not really. And then Amy Goodman is going to come up, and well chat for a bit, as well.
I want to talk about the book, but I also have the feeling there are one or two other things on your minds beside the book. So let me just go over these one or two other things.
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by over 2 million votes, which is no small number. Second of alland that tells us that Mr. Trump has got to understand that he has no mandate. He lost by 2 million votes. And we may want to talk about a little bit later about the Electoral College and how it is that you win by 2 million votes and dont get inaugurated as president, but thats another issue.
But second of all, on every major issueand this is important to understand, for progressives to understandon virtually every major issue facing this country, whether its raising the minimum wage, whether it is pay equity for women, whether its rebuilding our infrastructure, whether it is making public colleges and universities tuition-free, whether it is criminal justice reform, immigration reform, etc., etc., whether its dealing with income and wealth inequality, demanding the wealthy start paying their fair share of taxeson all of those issues and more, the strong majority of the American people agree with us. You can go out, and you can do a poll today, go out on the street and ask people whether they think its a great idea to give tax breaks to billionaires, as Mr. Trump and his friends will try to do, and cut Social Security, I would say 90 percent of the American people do not think that that makes any sense at all. So, point here is that on every major issue, virtually every major issue, especially the economic ones, the American people are on our side....
https://www.democracynow.org/2016/11/30/watch_bernie_sanders_full_speech_in
I want to talk about the book, but I also have the feeling there are one or two other things on your minds beside the book. So let me just go over these one or two other things.
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by over 2 million votes, which is no small number. Second of alland that tells us that Mr. Trump has got to understand that he has no mandate. He lost by 2 million votes. And we may want to talk about a little bit later about the Electoral College and how it is that you win by 2 million votes and dont get inaugurated as president, but thats another issue.
But second of all, on every major issueand this is important to understand, for progressives to understandon virtually every major issue facing this country, whether its raising the minimum wage, whether it is pay equity for women, whether its rebuilding our infrastructure, whether it is making public colleges and universities tuition-free, whether it is criminal justice reform, immigration reform, etc., etc., whether its dealing with income and wealth inequality, demanding the wealthy start paying their fair share of taxeson all of those issues and more, the strong majority of the American people agree with us. You can go out, and you can do a poll today, go out on the street and ask people whether they think its a great idea to give tax breaks to billionaires, as Mr. Trump and his friends will try to do, and cut Social Security, I would say 90 percent of the American people do not think that that makes any sense at all. So, point here is that on every major issue, virtually every major issue, especially the economic ones, the American people are on our side....
https://www.democracynow.org/2016/11/30/watch_bernie_sanders_full_speech_in
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Watch Bernie Sanders' Full Speech in Philadelphia: The Future of American Democracy is at Risk (Original Post)
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(2 posts)1. fantastic!
Truth is hard to look at.. but the lies will end us. I love truth!
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(11,641 posts)2. Welcome to DU.