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Bernie Sanders and progressive news and opinion. This is historic, you know,
whether Bernie wins or not. This time Bernie is up against, I mean, last time it
was Bernie versus Hillary. And you know, we need not revisit that. But there
were clear differences between the two.
This time Bernie's got some people
running as Democrats. Well, actually one in particular, Elizabeth Warren.
And others who are picking up other pieces of his platform, but you know, this
time around it's not just gonna be you know Bernie. It's not
gonna be one of these binary choices. But that said that what's truly historic
about Bernie Sanders and what he has done up to this point. And, we'll
see how this you know if you can pull together a million people over the next
couple of weeks to say yes I'll give an hour to your campaign or here's 27 bucks
or whatever. We'll see how that shakes out we'll see how much juice he
still has I think it's considerable I think it's huge.
But we'll find out right I mean you know it's all gonna be out there but you know
that that's like going forward but the thing that is so astonishing to me and I
alluded to this sort of you know in the in the beginning when I was you know
when Bernie first called in and and I was setting up the the interview and I
want to go a little deeper is that I mean just a couple of years ago you were
hearing things like oh yes we're all about hope we're all about change we're
all about you know I'm with her I mean so you know some of these slogans but
they didn't have the depth of policy associated with them that Bernie brought
into the race a couple of years ago
quote normal Main Street stream Democrats
we're unwilling in unwilling to endorse for example Medicare for all in fact I
remember Bernie was on this show for you know as you'll recall
every single Friday for 11 years and over and over and over again Bernie
would be supporting John Conyers bill H you know HR 676 or he started talking
about Medicare for all when he when he joined the Senate and this was I think
five years ago there abouts and he was on this show and this happened he
introduced a piece of legislation that was a medicare-for-all bill right the
the just the whole the whole enchilada right here it is Medicare for all you
know how many Democrats co-signed that co-sponsored that legislation in the
United States Senate with him zero it was all Bernie all alone it never got to
committee it never got a vote nothing because no other Democrats were willing
to say uh Medicare for all that makes sense
works in Canada it'll save us ten trillion dollars over the course of the
next decade no Democrat was willing to say that Bernie was talking about how
every American should be able to go to college or trade school for free because
we know fit you know this isn't an expense it's an investment we know that
from the from you know our experience with the GI Bill that for every dollar
we invite we invest in educating young people at the college level or trade
school level we make back over the course of their lifetimes seven
additional dollars we wouldn't have had we be in the federal government in in
increased tax revenue because they're earning more because they're educated
now this is a no-brainer and you had four or five years ago when
Bernie was talking about everybody in America having the right to have a free
college education and how it wouldn't be an expense I mean you've got it would be
an investment that will pay a larger return than the cost of the investment
same with health care by the way you got a healthier country
you got more productive workers you have lower mortality cost you have lower
health care costs you have more productive work force I mean there's a
reason why of the 34 OECD countries 33 of them have national health care
systems there's a reason why of the 34 OECD countries 31 of them have free
college education these are
simple I mean this is just like not even rocket science this is just common
friggin sense and you had five years ago there wasn't a single Democrat who would
say yes I'm in favor of these things and that has all changed now because of
Bernie's historic candidacy breaking up the big banks nobody was willing to talk
about that out loud free tuition at public colleges lowering
drug prices yeah that would get some lip service but then people would say but we
can't have too much government regulation come on new labor laws to
encourage union formation this is a list from Jeff Stein in today's Washington
Post by the way of the things that Bernie is running on and has run on
these are all things that are now parts of the normal conversation in the
Democratic Party curbing corporate spending on elections rolling back
citizens united or overturning a paid family and medical leave gender pay
equality increasing Social Security benefits raising the cap and making it
making it making Social Security solid and a few of the new things that he
didn't run on last time that he's running on this time ending cash bailed
throughout the United States legalizing marijuana throughout the United States
heavy taxation of wealthy estates corporations and the richest 1% and
closing offshore tax havens