Bernie Sanders Looks to Promote His Ideas at Democratic Convention

[Iamaartist]

http://time.com/4310640/bernie-sanders-convention-democratic-platform-policy-agenda/


Bernie Sanders is losing the primary battle, but he’s still waging a war for the soul of the Democratic Party.

Now all-but eliminated from winning the Democratic nomination, the Vermont Senator and his advisers are drawing up plans for a fight over the party’s platform and rules at the July convention, hoping to inscribe his ideas into the party’s DNA.

That could mean putting into the text ideas that Clinton and her allies have resisted, such as raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour or changing the primary rules to eliminate superdelegates, Sanders allies say. His advisers are considering tactics that would take advantage of the party’s arcane rules to push proposals through the party-controlled committees, perhaps as far the convention floor.

The looming fight at the convention has become a key motive for Sanders to continue contesting major primary states. “If we don’t win, we intend to win every delegates we can,” he said at a rally on Wednesday, “so that when we go to Philadelphia, we will have the votes to put together the strongest progressive agenda that any party has ever seen.”

But Sanders will face some of the same challenges in his platform fight that he faced in his campaign, with much of the agenda on the convention floor controlled by Clinton and her allies within the party. He has lost a string of devastating losses in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York and other delegate-rich states in recent days, which means he will have fewer supporters compared with Clinton in the convention halls.

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..Go home Bernie..no more of your agenda ...we heard it all.....

[SunSeeker]

1. He does not have ideas, he has rhetoric. nt

[Iamaartist]

2. You got that right thank-you SunSeeker

[brer cat]

3. +1000 nt

[DesertFlower]

6. exactly. hillary has solutions.

[ismnotwasm]

4. This reminds me of those with cries to "End Citizens United"

Without realizing it was a Supreme court decision. Just cries, without a pathway or a process TO end it. Sanders is annoying even when his ideas are good. Maybe especially when his ideas are good, because he doesn't seem to have a workable plan to implement them..

[yallerdawg]

5. The compromise would be...

acknowledging the progressive liberal Democratic policies and positions of our Democratic nominee!

DINO's shouldn't be writing our party platform.

[misterhighwasted]

7. He should stand up & apologize to Sec Clinton, Pres Obama & the Dem Party, first.

He needs to own the hate he's brought to the Dems before I'd ever let that fraud set foot on stage with a mic.

Why start trusting him now?
He needs to prove he's worthy of being on stage at the Dem Convention. So far all he's done is set out to destroy it & replace it with his cockeyed scheme of a socialist libertarian teabaggin nightmare for America.

His campaign of big ideas wiyh no thought to making them a reality, lies & sloganeering stump speeches.

Why does he deserve a place at the table when he provided nothing & stole from the Party to build his naieve base of hate, yet now demands a chair at the head of that Dem table.
He needs to start earning his way in the front door first.
Why would anyone trust him after the past 9 months?

He's taken America for fools. His base included.

[Thinkingabout]

8. I likethe idea of super delegates, after watching the GOP recently I see a real

Need to have them in place. I don't want a hostile takeover especially by one who has not been a Democrat but in the last year. The TP made a run in upsetting the GOP, we don't need a left wing TP.

[DemonGoddess]

9. He can apologize

to every Democrat he's tried to tear down, both during this primary season, and before. THAT can be his contribution.

[livetohike]

10. That should go over well. Here comes the newly minted

Democrat to tell the party how they should think. I wouldn't let him in the door.

[jmowreader]

11. I think we already know his "ideas"

He's been giving the exact same stump speech for over a year. By now we know he wants taxpayer-funded tuition at public universities and colleges, taxpayer-funded Cadillac Health Care, to eliminate superdelegates, a $15 minimum wage, to break up the big banks, to tax the rich into nonexistence, and taxpayer-funded family leave.

We know his ideas. If he can explain how to DO ANY OF IT, I'm all ears.

[LiberalFighter]

12. The window is shrinking fast for Sanders.

Anything he can accomplish will be very limited.