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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 4406075" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>alot of this stuff is inaccurate. he is not nationalizing energy industry, although he should.</p><p></p><p>"</p><p>As I wrote in <a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-new-rules-of-the-game/" target="_blank">my Feb. 17 column</a>, “The New Rules of the Games,” “Sanders’ democratic socialism is essentially that of a New Deal Democrat. His political views would be part of the mainstream in France or Germany, where democratic socialism is an accepted part of the political landscape and is routinely challenged as too accommodationist by communists and radical socialists. Sanders calls for an end to our foreign wars, a reduction of the military budget, for ‘Medicare for All,’ abolishing the death penalty, eliminating mandatory minimum sentences and private prisons, a return of <a href="https://www.thebalance.com/glass-steagall-act-definition-purpose-and-repeal-3305850" target="_blank">Glass-Steagall</a>, raising taxes on the wealthy, increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour, canceling student debt, eliminating the Electoral College, banning fracking and breaking up agribusinesses. This does not qualify as a revolutionary agenda.”</p><p></p><p>“Sanders, unlike many more radical socialists, does not propose nationalizing the banks and the fossil fuel and arms industries,” I continued. “He does not call for the criminal prosecution of the financial elites who trashed the global economy or the politicians and generals who lied to launch preemptive wars, defined under international law as criminal wars of aggression, which have devastated much of the Middle East, resulted in hundreds of thousands of dead and millions of refugees and displaced people, and cost the nation between $5 trillion and $7 trillion. He does not call for worker ownership of factories and businesses. He does not promise to halt the government’s wholesale surveillance of the public. He does not intend to punish corporations that have moved manufacturing overseas. Most importantly, he believes, as I do not, that the political system, including the Democratic Party, can be reformed from within. He does not support sustained mass civil disobedience to bring the system down, the only hope we have of halting the climate emergency that threatens to doom the human race. On the political spectrum, he is, at best, an enlightened moderate.”"</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/class-the-little-word-the-elites-want-you-to-forget/" target="_blank">Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 4406075, member: 56035"] alot of this stuff is inaccurate. he is not nationalizing energy industry, although he should. " As I wrote in [URL='https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-new-rules-of-the-game/']my Feb. 17 column[/URL], “The New Rules of the Games,” “Sanders’ democratic socialism is essentially that of a New Deal Democrat. His political views would be part of the mainstream in France or Germany, where democratic socialism is an accepted part of the political landscape and is routinely challenged as too accommodationist by communists and radical socialists. Sanders calls for an end to our foreign wars, a reduction of the military budget, for ‘Medicare for All,’ abolishing the death penalty, eliminating mandatory minimum sentences and private prisons, a return of [URL='https://www.thebalance.com/glass-steagall-act-definition-purpose-and-repeal-3305850']Glass-Steagall[/URL], raising taxes on the wealthy, increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour, canceling student debt, eliminating the Electoral College, banning fracking and breaking up agribusinesses. This does not qualify as a revolutionary agenda.” “Sanders, unlike many more radical socialists, does not propose nationalizing the banks and the fossil fuel and arms industries,” I continued. “He does not call for the criminal prosecution of the financial elites who trashed the global economy or the politicians and generals who lied to launch preemptive wars, defined under international law as criminal wars of aggression, which have devastated much of the Middle East, resulted in hundreds of thousands of dead and millions of refugees and displaced people, and cost the nation between $5 trillion and $7 trillion. He does not call for worker ownership of factories and businesses. He does not promise to halt the government’s wholesale surveillance of the public. He does not intend to punish corporations that have moved manufacturing overseas. Most importantly, he believes, as I do not, that the political system, including the Democratic Party, can be reformed from within. He does not support sustained mass civil disobedience to bring the system down, the only hope we have of halting the climate emergency that threatens to doom the human race. On the political spectrum, he is, at best, an enlightened moderate.”" [URL="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/class-the-little-word-the-elites-want-you-to-forget/"]Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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