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Csainvestor

(388 posts)
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 06:11 PM Mar 2016

Bernie's Stump Speech is the basis for a new bill of rights

Bernie has been criticized many times for refusing to deviate from his core message. Bernie doesn't do platitudes, he doesn't pander, he is laser focused.

What Bernie is saying each and every single day is that elected officials do not listen to the will of the people.

Bernie is explaining in very real terms how we have lost our democracy because of unlimited soft corruption in washington.

Bernie will hit these points each and every single day- people will take it in and think.

Money in politics has corrupted the system.
Climate change is real.
The billionaires have doubled their networth over the last 8 years.
The rich are undertaxed.
Corporations have too much power.
Labor and union power has diminished to nothingness.
We have underfunded education.
We over police and over arrest.
The war on drugs needs to be tamped down.
Medical coverage is too expensive, and it is a basic human right.
Childhood poverty has increased over the last 8 years

He hits these points and much more.
He is picking up on FDR and his second bill of rights.

He is yelling at the American populace, wake up. In the richest country in the history of earth, we treat our own inhumanly. Expect and demand more from your government.

We are the government.

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Bernie's Stump Speech is the basis for a new bill of rights (Original Post) Csainvestor Mar 2016 OP
Education, health care, clean food, air and water JFKDem62 Mar 2016 #1

JFKDem62

(383 posts)
1. Education, health care, clean food, air and water
Wed Mar 9, 2016, 06:54 PM
Mar 2016

Retirement, childcare, jobs, housing.

These are basic human rights.

Our two most important resources: the planet we live on and the people on it.
Time to invest in both.

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