In an interview with the Guardian from his home base in Burlington, Vermont, Sanders urged the Democratic president to inject more urgency into his bid for re-election. He said that unless the president was more direct in recognising the many crises faced by working-class families his Republican rival would win.
“We’ve got to see the White House move more aggressively on healthcare, on housing, on tax reform, on the high cost of prescription drugs,” Sanders said. “If we can get the president to move in that direction, he will win; if not, he’s going to lose.”
The US senator from Vermont added that he was in contact with the White House pressing that point. “We hope to make clear to the president and his team that they are not going to win this election unless they come up with a progressive agenda that speaks to the needs of the working class of this country.”
Sanders’ warning comes at a critical time in American politics. On Monday, Republicans in Iowa will gather for caucuses that mark the official start of the 2024 presidential election.
Biden faces no serious challenger in the Democratic primaries. But concern is mounting over how he would fare against Trump given a likely rematch between them in November.
It still blows my mind he wasn’t taken into custody for sedition ON Jan 6th.
I think future historians will point to that as a major turning point in our nation’s decline.
Taking a sitting president into custody without impeachment when he is not an immediate threat would be a coup, which I imagine would be worse for democracy, though maybe not for america.
Pretty sure the final outcome of letting donny spray tan go with zero consequences is going to be him winning the last election our country ever has, so pardon me if I don’t agree with you that taking a sitting president into custody is more of a problem than a legit dictator being allowed to run for office.
No point worrying about Trump desteoying democracy if you destroy it yourself first. Its not like you can’t stop an insurrectionist from running for office legally without violating the constitution and laws by taking him into custody.
In a less corrupt world I would say that peaceful protests are a legal way to keep him out of office but we all know cop hypocrisy and the right wing media machine will spin it just like they did for all the George Floyd protests.
i think it’s more of a milestone. we haven’t actually changed trajectory at all.
As someone active in politics since the late 80s, I can say we have certainly lost a number of our civil liberties, fascists feel emboldened enough to go full masks-off on the floor of Congress, and we just had a fucking soft coup attempt, so yea our trajectory has been on the downward side of parabolic since Ragass Reagan was allowed to ooze into the white house.
can i interest you in some anarchist zines?
Absolutely yes! Though it might be hard to find issues I don’t at least have mimeographed copies of.
It’s not wise for a government to signal so hard that the choices of the common person are irrelevant. In those times free speech comes in the form of ballistic cocktails.
Had to look up mimeographs.
Back in the day all good anarchist boys and girls had blue ink stained hands and smelled like solvent.
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I have been given very careful instructions to my friends to NEVER mix styrofoam with gasoline as that will make a jelly fuel mixture which is very dangerous and shouldn’t be done by any happy and represented citizen who has faith that their government has their best interest at heart.