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Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders' campaign has never been about Bernie Sanders, it's about ideas. It is those
ideas Bernie Sanders cultivates like the precious flowers grown from the seeds of the American ideal. Bernie want's to make America exceptional again.
"But Bernie Sanders has one thing Hillary Clinton doesnt: an ideology.
When Sanders set out to run, he tells me, his main fear was that doing so might prove harmful to his ideas. If I failed, if it was a bad campaign, if we didnt get many votesfine, I can live with that, he says. Sanders is leaning back on a couch, his leg propped up on a table, squinting through his unfashionable glasses into the middle distance.
But the ideas that I am talking aboutif the campaign did badly, then it would give the establishment the opportunity to say, See, Sanders ran on a platform calling for single-payer national healthcare system, and he did really poorly, he continues. He ran on a platform calling for the creation of millions of jobs through rebuilding the infrastructurenobody really supported him. He talked about income and wealth inequality; it didnt go anyplace. Those arent really good ideas!
They are like babies to him, fragile and cherished, these ideas. Sanders almost cringes at the thought that they could suffer. What worried me was not what happens to me personally if I failedwhat worries me is what happens to these ideas, he says. Well. When you have 10,000 people coming out to a meeting in support of these ideas, then people say, Hmm, maybe these ideas have some resonance.
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Bernie Sanders' campaign has never been about Bernie Sanders, it's about ideas. It is those (Original Post)
Ed Suspicious
Aug 2015
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)1. ... and the truth.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)2. K&R.....
Uncle Joe
(58,365 posts)3. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, Ed Suspicious.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)4. God, I love
this man.
punguin54
(47 posts)5. finally a real, for the people candidate.
me b zola
(19,053 posts)6. K&R
artislife
(9,497 posts)7. Bernie asking where is the leadership
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)8. 25 years on, Bernie is still singing the same righteous song!
azmom
(5,208 posts)9. Ideas never die
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