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angrychair

(8,702 posts)
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 10:58 AM Feb 2016

I Am Aware

This next phase of the campaign will be filled with surrogate attacks about who Sanders is and what he want to do.
As supporters of Bernie Sanders we have to own it. We cannot let them spin the things I like and want about Sanders into a negative. I ask that we sign onto a Declaration of Awareness.

Declaration of Awareness

I Am Aware...

Bernie is a self avowed Democratic Socialist

That he is proposing a lot of new programs that will be challenging to get through Congress

That these programs cost money. That, even as middle class, my taxes may go up

That he is spiritual more than religious

That he is of Jewish heritage

That he isn't perfect and neither am I

I am aware of all these things and support him as the Democratic candidate for president of the United States.


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I Am Aware (Original Post) angrychair Feb 2016 OP
Damned if we do, damned if we don't :) Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2016 #1
Thank you for including the word Democratic with the word Socialist. I think one of liberal_at_heart Feb 2016 #2

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
1. Damned if we do, damned if we don't :)
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 11:06 AM
Feb 2016

It's claimed he's a 'cult leader' who we think is 'perfect', while at the same time get bashed with his record on gun control, which most of us acknowledge we'd prefer to be a bit more 'perfect' even if we understand why he voted as he did.

liberal_at_heart

(12,081 posts)
2. Thank you for including the word Democratic with the word Socialist. I think one of
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 11:07 AM
Feb 2016

the responses we need to have is every time they say socialist we need to make sure to say Democratic Socialist. They are trying to own the narrative and frame it in such a way as to scare support away from him.

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