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Now comes the fawning that will help distract from left-wing parties and left-leaning candidates other than this one https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/02/19/why-nation-owes-bernie-sanders-our-enduring-gratitude
www.commondreams.orgWhy Nation Owes Bernie Sanders Our Enduring GratitudeMost importantly, he showed Democrats they could run successfully on policies like Medicare for all, free public higher education, and higher taxes on the wealthy – instead of the cautious “New Democrat” centrism of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, and Barack Obama.. It’s easy to forget the condescension and amusement that greeted him when he announced his first campaign for president, on May 26, 2015.How, it was asked, could a rumpled, 73-year-old, self-described Democratic Socialist – a junior senator from tiny Vermont, who was born in Brooklyn, Jewish, hadn’t even been a Democrat for most of his political career, and eschewed money from super PACs – possibly triumph against Hillary Clinton?In the end, he didn’t. But he triumphed in other ways.
@schestowitz he has my gratitude, but that does not equate with my loyalty. I want my next vote to go to someone below the actuarial line.