People’s Party plots a comeback for Bernie Sanders following ‘exodus’ of Democrats

They refuse to give up on Sen. Bernie Sanders: Former staffers and campaign workers are determined that the 75-year-old Vermont independent and self-described socialist step back into the political fray. Behold, it’s “Draft Bernie for a People’s Party,” a fierce new organization still fixated on the man who rattled the 2016 election with progressive populism.

“The candidates for Democratic National Committee chairman have been meeting with billionaire donors at fancy retreats to discuss the future of the Democratic Party and our country. Grass-roots activists and working people were not invited. How can we free our government from the influence of the oligarchs without even challenging their mechanisms of political control?” asks Nick Brana, founder of the group and former political outreach director for Mr. Sanders’ presidential campaign.

A slick new website is up and running. Fundraising apparatus is in place, and the group is now conducting its own survey. A petition to draft Mr. Sanders instantly drew over 12,000 signatures. Mr. Brana, meanwhile, is consulting recent Gallup Poll data that indicate “a remarkable exodus from the Democratic Party since the presidential election,” he says — almost 20 percent.

“The people are leading the way to an independent alternative. Imagine if instead of struggling against the populist progressive current, we swam with it and created a new party to represent the working majority?” Mr. Brana observes. “Lobbying the super-delegates for Bernie taught me that the Democratic Party sees progressives as worse than Republicans. They would rather lose than allow a progressive to rise to the presidency.”




https://draftbernie.org/

 

Hear!, Hear!

 

Many Democrats are in search of a new political home as the Democratic Party has essentially become a hate group.

 

The only thing the Democrats have been able to do since Trump was elected is to throw rocks at windows......

 

LOL, talk about good timing....

Bernie Sanders joins the top 1 percent
June 7, 2017
Juliana Rose Pignataro
Posted with permission from International Business Times



Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders rose to political fame after railing against the nation's wealthy and promoting Democratic socialism, but the senator has officially become one of the moneyed elite himself. Sanders raked in more than $1 million in 2016, according to Senate financial disclosure forms, putting him in the top one percent of Americans, a group he’s often denounced.

While Sanders’ annual Senate income alone wouldn’t put him among the ultra-wealthy, the royalties and advance from his book “Our Revolution” did. The senator received a $795,000 advance in addition to the 200,000 copies he’s sold so far.

But Sanders has made a career of criticizing the moneyed elites.

“How many yachts do billionaires need?” Sanders tweeted in April. “How many cars do they need? Give us a break. You can’t have it all.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks about raising the minimum wage during a press conference in Washington, D.C., May 25, 2017. Photo: Getty Images

Social media users, however, were quick to point out that he himself owns three separate homes, including a summer house on Lake Champlain. And while such spending habits don’t make him a billionaire, they certainly don’t jive with the lifestyle of those he championed.


“Our job is to take on the moneyed interests,” Sanders said during an April speech in Kentucky. “And the only way I know as to how we do that is by bringing millions of people into the political process, with a newborn understanding that we have got to get involved.”

The top one percent of the nation earns 25.3 times as much as the bottom 99 percent, according to the Economic Policy Institute. While the top one percent earns an average income of $1.15 million per year, the rest of the country earns an average of $45,567 per year. Sanders, however, has maintained that he is not among the wealthy elite.

“I remain one of the poorer members of the United States Senate,” he said during a presidential debate last year.

Without his book deal, that claim was true. However, even with just his Senate income alone, 18 senators, including 10 Republicans, had a net worth less than Sanders in 2014, according to PolitiFact.

Sanders, 75, recently toured the country to rally his base in an effort to revamp the Democratic Party. The senator has repeatedly voiced his opposition to President Donald Trump. He railed against Trump’s proposed budget in May, calling the proposal “grotesquely immoral” and “horrific.”

“What you are looking at is a massive transfer of wealth from working families, from seniors, from children, into the hands of the very, very richest billionaires in this country,” he said during an appearance on NBC. “It is an outrageous budget. It is a budget the American people do not want. It is a budget that should not see the light of day in the U.S. Senate.”

Sanders has made it his mission to revamp the Democratic Party after failing to clinch the nomination for president in 2016.

“We need to transform the Democratic Party,” he said during a speech in April in Kentucky. “We need to open the doors of the Democratic Party to working people and to young people.”

 

The democrats cannot win an election right now.
How do they think they can win when they divide up into two different teams?

 

from what I have seen the last 5 months in congress the Republicans might as well be 2 parties.....

 

Bernie brought up this point today.



(I gotta say...watching this NEVER gets old.)

 

At the age of 74 Bernie Sanders could have been elected president. In the polls he was always comfortably ahead of Donald Trump.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/e...s/general_election_trump_vs_sanders-5565.html

After four years of the faux egalitarianism of Donald Trump the electorate is likely to be even more interested in a genuine egalitarian than they were in 2016.

If Bernie Sanders is wise he will not run in 2020 as either a Democrat, or as a third party candidate. He will groom and mentor a younger Democrat who is in essential agreement with him. If the Democrat Party leadership is wise, they will allow the younger Democrat to be nominated.

If Hillary Clinton is wise she will not run in 2020. Instead she will engage in activities to strengthen the Democrat Party.

 

If he could not beat Hillary how was he to beat Trump...?

 

Sanders' base was mostly millenials, who were disillusioned by the fact that mommy and daddy lied to them. They have four years of the current administration to help them get jobs, married etc. I'm curious to see how many convert to republican by then?

 

That will only happen if unemployment declines, and average wages adjusted for inflation go up. Democratic presidents have a better record for job creation and growth in the per capita gross domestic product adjusted for inflation, going back to the administration of Franklin Roosevelt.

 

Sanders format???
Socialist/commie little bastards!

Funny how we don't hear much news about the new socialist country Venezuela?
Wonder how that's going down there???

 

Commies? Too funny. Bernie!, Bernie! Bernie! LOL.

 

I really like this idea. Split the democratic party into two different parties.
I can't imagine anyone being against this. Republicans should help out al they can.
Democrats are not smart enough to realize they cannot win an election with every democrat they can dig up and
think splitting their votes will help them.
Go Bernie.

 

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

- Fidel Castro

Capitalism works well in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore. Castro is right about the rest.

Venezuela is a cautionary tale, but it does not mean that "Socialism doesn't work." It means that if the government is to play a major role in the economy, the government needs to be competently led.

In Scandinavia, Germany, and the British Commonwealth the governments are competently led. They have Social Democratic economies. That is Bernie Sanders' ideal, and the ideal of his supporters.

 

Any type of government will survive for a while.
It all comes down to the leaders.
If the leaders are intelligent people who care about their people and their country it will last longer.
If the leaders care more about helping themselves and their friends their country will suffer.

Here in the U.S. we have seen our country decline because we elected people who only had experience being a politician.
They couldn't make the country great or even keep it even as they knew little about the real world.
We even elected a president that many people didn't think was even a citizen of our country.
The road back will be a long bumpy ride at the best.
Without the help of all of the people it will be almost impossible.
We cannot depend on the people for help in bringing our country back to what it once was.
We are too divided. We may fall. We will have no one to blame except ourselves.

 

Donald Trump demonstrates why businessmen seldom make good political leaders. They are used to giving orders and expecting obedience. In a democracy elected officials need to be able make others want to do what they want them to do.

 

Dog, why not give the man a chance?
He does have more business experience than all the past democratic leaders added together.
He knows more about what will grow business in the U.S.
We do not need people who only have experience being a politician.
We have seen what it will do to our country.
That is the reason Trump is in office today.
People got very tired of politicians.