APRIL
8, 2020
PROGRESSIVE
OPINION AND NEWS
THIS
IS BERNIE SANDERS DAY. BERNIE SANDERS HAS JUST ANNOUNCED THE SUSPENSION OF HIS
CANDIDACY, BUT IS LEAVING HIS NAME ON THE REMAINING BALLOTS THROUGHOUT THE
STATES TO GARNER MORE DELEGATES FOR THE CONVENTION. HIS REASON FOR DOING THAT
IS TO HAVE MORE EVIDENCE TO SHOW AT THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION OF THE NEED FOR A
MUCH MORE PROGRESSIVE AND INCLUSIVE DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLATFORM. AS ALWAYS, HE IS
AN IDEAS MAN, ANYTHING BUT A “PARTY HACK,” AND IS FOREVER COMMITTED TO A GOOD
QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT IN THE UPPER ECONOMIC LEVELS. ALL OF HIS
GOALS HAVE BEEN TO THAT END – HEALTHCARE, HOUSING, SOCIAL JUSTICE, EDUCATION, A
GREATER FINANCIAL SECURITY. WINNING OR LOSING, BERNIE IS STILL THE BEST. HE HAS
MADE CLEAR THE PATTERN OF LIFE THAT IS NEEDED IN THIS AND IN ANY OTHER NATION.
TO
THOSE ENDS, WE NEED TO STAY BEHIND OUR PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT TO COME TOGETHER AS
A UNIFIED POLITICAL FORCE, SO THE LESS DEMOCRATIC ELEMENTS WITHIN ALL PARTIES
WILL CONTINUE TO FACE A CHALLENGE. I WILL NOW SEND MY FEW DOLLARS TO GROUPS WHO
PURSUE THAT PATH. I WILL VOTE THIS TIME TO OUST PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP FROM THE
WHITE HOUSE, BUT AFTER THAT I WANT TO SEE A PROGRESSIVES PARTY STRUCTURE THAT
IS UNITED AND SEPARATE FROM THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, AND WHICH COVERS THE VARIOUS
GROUPS WITHIN IT WHOSE GOALS ARE ESSENTIAL TO A GOOD LIFE FOR ALL.
WE
NEED, AMONG OTHER THINGS NOT YET MENTIONED: A MORE DEMOCRATIC WAY OF MAKING
NATIONAL DECISIONS; EVER GREATER SOCIAL JUSTICE IN PRACTICE AS WELL AS IN THE
LAW; LAWS AND POLICIES THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE REDUCTION OF THE FINANCIAL DIVIDE
BETWEEN THE ECONOMIC CLASSES RATHER THAN INCREASING IT; GUARANTEED HOUSING AND
HEALTHCARE AS A HUMAN RIGHT; FREE PUBLIC COLLEGE OR TRADE SCHOOL FOR THOSE WHO CHOOSE
IT; SAFETY FROM ABUSE FOR ALL PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY ALL MINORITIES; EQUALITY FOR
WOMEN IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LIFE; AND A DRASTIC REDUCTION OF CARBON DIOXIDE
EMISSIONS INTO THE AIR AS WELL AS ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION OF ALL KINDS. WATER
SHOULD BE SAFE TO DRINK AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE MUST BE STOPPED. WE MUST NOT
LET THE EARTH BECOME A WASTELAND.
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BERNIE BOWS OUT.
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After
Sanders Exits Race, Climate Campaigners Thank Him for 'Raising the Bar' and
Urge Biden to 'Step Up'
"Sanders
has been a constant, fearless voice for people and the planet, advocating for
the bold ideas and real solutions like the Green New Deal, which met the scale
of what is needed to avoid climate catastrophe."
byJessica
Corbett, staff writer
PHOTOGRAPH
-- Then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) attended
a news conference to introduce legislation to transform public housing as part
of the Green New Deal outside the U.S. Capitol Nov. 14, 2019 in Washington,
D.C. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The
end of Bernie Sanders' second campaign for the Democratic presidential
nomination on Wednesday provoked an immediate wave of praise from climate
campaigners for the Vermont senator's ambitious plans to address the planetary
emergency and calls for former Vice President Joe Biden, now the party's
presumed nominee, to embrace his ex-rival's progressive proposals.
"Senator
Sanders' presidential bid permanently changed the fight for a healthy and just
planet."
—Erich
Pica, Friends of the Earth Action
Sanders
"built a campaign on holding the wealthy and powerful to account,"
Greenpeace USA said in a series of tweets. "His vision for a world beyond
fossil fuels must now become the baseline" for the Democratic Party.
"#ThankYouBernie,
for raising the bar. The fight for a just and peaceful future continues,"
Greenpeace declared. "It's now time for [Joe Biden] to step up. There is
no 'middle of the road' approach to a crisis."
Noting
that Biden has previously responded to pressure to improve his climate
policies, the group added that the former vice president "should pick up
where Sanders left off and say no to fossil fuels and yes to a
#GreenNewDeal."
Although
Biden's website states that he "believes the Green New Deal is a crucial
framework for meeting the climate challenges we face," the candidate has
been criticized by advocacy groups for not going far enough to address the
global crisis, which experts warn requires sweeping reforms within the next
decade.
Sanders,
by comparison, led the once-crowded field in terms of climate policy, unveiling
a Green New Deal plan last August that supporters called a
"game-changer." The senator topped various groups' climate
scorecards, including rankings from Greenpeace and the Sunrise Movement, which
endorsed Sanders in January.
"We're
not going to sugarcoat it: our hearts are heavy," Sunrise spokesperson
Aracely Jimenez said in a statement. "In Bernie Sanders, we had a
presidential candidate whose visionary solutions—Medicare for All, the Green
New Deal, paid sick leave—are exactly the policies we need to get out of the
crises we're living through now."
Echoing
Sanders' own comments Wednesday about "winning the ideological
battle," Jimenez said Sunrise members "find hope" in the
popularity of progressive proposals embraced by the movement that powered his
campaign.
Sunrise
Movement 🌅
✔
@sunrisemvmt
Bernie
helped mobilize a generation, but the fight doesn't begin or end with him.
We
have plenty of work ahead of us, but we will rise to the challenge of building
a movement that fights for us all, a movement that will bring power to the
people.
#NotMeUS
#ThankYouBernie
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"In
Bernie Sanders, we had a presidential candidate whose visionary
solutions—Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, paid sick leave—are exactly the
policies we need to get out of the crises we're living through now."
—Aracely
Jimenez, Sunrise Movement
"We
need to see this moment as a wake-up call. Our ideas are winning, but we're not
going to win overnight," she continued. "We need to recommit to the
hard, long-term work of building a fighting force capable of taking on Wall
Street and the political establishment to win the change Bernie campaigned on.
The ball's now in Joe Biden's court."
Biden,
Jimenez warned, "needs to show young people that he's going to stand up
for them by embracing policies like an ambitious Green New Deal that led young
voters to flock to Bernie. If he doesn't do this, our work turning out our generation
to defeat [President Donald] Trump this fall becomes a lot harder."
Friends
of the Earth Action president Erich Pica also said in a statement that "it
is now up to [former] Vice President Biden to excite climate activists around
the country by offering bolder solutions that protect people and the planet
over greedy corporate interests."
In
January, Pica's group issued a dual endorsement of Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth
Warren (D-Mass.), who ended her presidential campaign in early March.
"Senator
Sanders' presidential bid permanently changed the fight for a healthy and just
planet," Pica said Wednesday. "Throughout the campaign Sanders has
been a constant, fearless voice for people and the planet, advocating for the
bold ideas and real solutions like the Green New Deal, which met the scale of
what is needed to avoid climate catastrophe."
"While
his campaign may be over, our movement continues," Pica added. "At
this time of crisis, the progressive policies Senator Sanders champions remain
indispensable to advancing the transformational changes we so badly need."
Sierra
Club executive director Michael Brune tweeted that "the climate movement
is stronger" because of Sanders and expressed relief that the senator
vowed to continue working on the issues he championed as as candidate.
Michael
Brune
✔
@bruneski
The
climate movement is stronger because of @BernieSanders. From Congress to the
campaign trail, his voice has been invaluable, and I'm comforted knowing his
work continues. Thank you, @BernieSanders, and I look forward to our continued
efforts to tackle the climate crisis.
https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1247913426166280192 …
Bernie
Sanders
✔
@BernieSanders
Today
I am suspending my campaign. But while the campaign ends, the struggle for
justice continues on.
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The
League of Conservation Voters thanked Sanders "for fighting for climate
solutions that center on creating family-sustaining jobs in a clean energy
economy and that invest in communities of color and low-income communities who
have been hit first and worst by the climate crisis."
The
Vermont senator was an original co-sponsor of the Green New Deal resolution
introduced last year by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), one of Sanders' most high-profile surrogates. His
campaign's climate plan called for transitioning to 100% renewable energy and
investing $16.3 trillion to create 20 million well-paying union jobs and help
communities in need over 10 years.
The
Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund credited Sanders with directing
attention to the planetary emergency throughout his party's contentious 2020
contest, tweeting that the senator's "longtime focus on solving the
climate crisis pushed the issue to the top of policy discussions during the
primary."
Even
some other ex-presidential candidates, such as Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.)
and billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, praised Sanders' leadership in
terms of climate policy.
Kamala
Harris
✔
@KamalaHarris
.@BernieSanders
is an extraordinary leader. From health care to climate change, his campaign
drove the conversation around what's in the best interests of working families.
We must continue that spirit and ethos as we work to unite the party to defeat
Trump.
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Johnny
Verhovek
✔
@JTHVerhovek
.@TomSteyer:
"Senator Sanders...deserves tremendous credit for pushing our party to
more fully embrace the progressive values of economic equality, healthcare for
all, climate justice + an America that works for working class families, not
just the wealthy and big corporations."
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image on Twitter [LW: TO READ STEYER’S WHOLE STATEMENT GO TO COMMON DREAMS
WEBSITE.]
The
New York Working Families Party thanked Sanders for "changing this
country," highlighting how he "forced Medicare for All into the
mainstream" and "demanded we confront climate change" while
railing against billionaires and fighting for working people.
In
a lengthy Twitter thread responding to Sanders' announcement Wednesday,
Indivisible argued that his "focus on grassroots fundraising, rejection of
PACs, and embrace of activism at the core of his race has changed what it means
to run for president."
"If
we learned anything from Senator Sanders and his campaign, it's that this isn't
time for progressives to give up," the group added. "Now more than
ever, we need to fight for a platform that reflects the pillars of his
campaign: M4A, a GND, and reforms to protect the most vulnerable people."
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ARTICLE GIVES COMMENTS FROM A LARGE NUMBER OF THE POLITICAL PEER GROUP OF WHICH
HE IS A MEMBER. I DIDN’T FIND ONE FROM ELIZABETH WARREN. PERHAPS TOMORROW.
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/08/829067136/bernie-sanders-weighs-the-toughest-decision-of-his-campaign
Bernie
Sanders Weighs The Toughest Decision Of His Campaign
April
8, 2020 5:00 AM ET
Domenico
Montanaro - 2015
DOMENICO
MONTANARO
PHOTOGRAPH -- Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, behind in
the delegate count, is considering his options and what to do now.
Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images
There comes a time in every campaign when a candidate needs to make a
tough decision.
Ending a bid for president is one of the hardest things any candidate can
do.
They put themselves out there; they open themselves – and their families
– up to relentless criticism and, nowadays, social media abuse.
That's got to be even harder for someone like Vermont Sen. Bernie
Sanders, who against all odds built a movement and, at 78, likely won't run for
president again.
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The Vermont senator's supporters are fervent and fed up. Many are young
and grew up in an era with America at war, enduring economic collapse, crushing
student loan debt and now a viral pandemic that only underscores for them the
point they've been making all along about a health care system that's inexorably
tied to big corporations.
"Medicare for All," they say, isn't looking so bad when
millions are losing jobs — and their health care.
They want it all fixed, they want it fixed now, and they don't trust the
power structures that have been in charge for generations, Democrats included.
That change may come someday, but the revolution is not matching the
present reality.
Sanders' path to the Democratic nomination is getting narrower every day.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has a 1,217-to-914 delegate lead over Sanders.
To be the nominee, a candidate needs 1,991. That means Biden needs just 46% of
the remaining delegates to be the nominee; Sanders needs 64%.
In other words, for Sanders to turn this aircraft carrier around, he
would need to get at least 64% of the vote in all of the remaining contests to
beat Biden.
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And the opposite looked to be the case heading into Wisconsin, where
voting took place Tuesday three weeks after the last primaries. Biden was up
62% to 34% in the latest Marquette Law School poll. Sanders won the Wisconsin
primary in 2016 by 13 points.
There are no results being released in Wisconsin until Monday. But the
Wisconsin outcome could be determinative if it winds up looking like what's
happened in previous weeks, with big Biden victories on Super Tuesday and
beyond.
Sanders, for his part, said last month he would be "assessing"
his campaign and noted that there wasn't an election for another three weeks,
which was Tuesday's Wisconsin primary.
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"We are talking to our supporters," he added. "Anybody who
suggests that at this point we are ending the campaign is not telling the
truth."
Since then, though, the campaign has mostly taken a back seat. Sanders
has shifted focus to his day job as a senator and working on relief for Americans
economically besieged by the coronavirus outbreak.
Sanders has done some virtual town halls, but the campaign has been all
but frozen. And there's a debate going on in Sanders world about what to do
next, The Washington Post reported.
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On one side, there's his campaign manager and a trusted adviser said to
be in favor of dropping out; on the other side, a campaign co-chairwoman, some
grassroots supporters and Larry Cohen, the head of Our Revolution, a prominent
outside group supporting Sanders.
Cohen told NPR that he wants Sanders to stay in to have sway within the
Democratic National Committee to continue — or make permanent — rules changes
Sanders fought for, like "superdelegates" not being able to vote on
the first ballot at the nominating convention.
"That's a bottom line position," Cohen said.
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He also noted that Sanders staying in and amassing more delegates would
mean more power to influence the Democratic platform, especially pushing for as
progressive a position possible on healthcare.
"People like their health insurance?" he asked rhetorically,
"When 30 million are likely to lose their health care that's
employer-based" because of the coronavirus?
He added, "That's the price of unity. They think unity is salute Joe
Biden."
Biden and Sanders, though, seem to have a warm relationship, something
Sanders did not have with Hillary Clinton, who defeated him for the nomination
in 2016.
Photograph -- Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders touch elbows, as they greet
each other for a Democratic presidential debate last month.
Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
"If I'm the nominee, I can tell you one thing, I would very much
want Bernie to be part of the journey," Biden said Tuesday on NBC's Today.
"Not as a vice presidential nominee, but just engaging in all the things
that he's worked so hard to do, many of which I agree with."
With the writing on the wall becoming clear, negotiation is happening at
the top levels between the campaigns, according to a source familiar with the
discussions.
Not everyone will come around, and Sanders, of course, would first have
to concede, but the goal of beating Trump and moving the country in a more
progressive direction would likely be enough for many of the Sanders faithful
to vote for Biden in the fall.
"We are all in if Biden is the nominee," Cohen said.
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CNN’S
EDITOR CHRIS CILLIZZA, JUST ONE DAY AGO, WROTE A FORESHADOWING OF WHAT WAS TO
COME. PERHAPS IT WAS KNOWN IN MEDIA CIRCLES BEFORE SANDERS’ ANNOUNCEMENT THAT
HE WAS GOING TO THROW IN THE TOWEL SOON. HIS STORY IS NOT THE SORT OF SMEAR
THAT I’VE SO OFTEN SEEN, BUT EVEN SO, CILLIZZA’S USE OF THE REFERENCE TO T.S.
ELLIOTT’S AMAZING POEM CALLED THE HOLLOW MEN, IN SAYING SANDERS’
CAMPAIGN “ENDS WITH THIS SORT OF WHIMPER,” IS ILL APPLIED. HE SHOULD INSTEAD
HAVE COMPARED HIS WHOLE INTELLECTUAL AND POLITICAL LIFE TO WILLIAM ERNEST
HENLEY’S POEM, INVICTUS: “MY HEAD IS BLOODY BUT UNBOWED.”
TO
READ THEM BOTH, GO TO THESE SITES:
Today
is Bernie Sanders' last meaningful day as a presidential candidate
Analysis
by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
[APRIL
7, 2020]
(CNN)For much of the past five years, Bernie Sanders has either been
running for president or talking about running for president, an absolutely
remarkable streak of longevity.
That streak, unfortunately for the Vermont senator and his army of
supporters, effectively ends on Tuesday with the conclusion of the Wisconsin
primary.
Sanders, if all available polling is to be believed, is widely expected
to come up well short of former Vice President Joe Biden in the Badger State.
That would mark a significant reversal from the 2016 Democratic primary race,
when Sanders beat Hillary Clinton by 13 points in Wisconsin. It would also
continue a losing streak for Sanders since Super Tuesday that has all but
closed the door on his chances of overcoming Biden in the delegate chase.
The problem for Sanders is that after the Wisconsin primary, there's
simply not many potential winners -- or even states voting -- for him on the
calendar. The coronavirus pandemic has forced most states with April primaries
to postpone the vote until early summer. The only large-population state left
to vote in April is Ohio, which will vote entirely by mail for its scheduled
April 28 primary.
What that means for Sanders is that there just aren't any real
opportunities for him to change the arc of the primary anytime soon. While he
was likely to come up short to Biden even before stay-at-home orders and social
distancing guidelines forced the candidates off the campaign trail and froze
the campaign in place, that fate seems nearly certain given the current state
of the contest and the country.
As recently as a month ago -- when Sanders lost the Michigan, Missouri,
Mississippi and Idaho primaries on a single night -- he was pledging to stay in
the race. "Today I say to the Democratic establishment, in order to win in
the future, you need to win the voters who represent the future of our country
and you must speak to the issues of concern to them," Sanders said in his
concession speech on March 10.
Since then, however, Sanders' prospects have grown even dimmer as the
2020 race has all but disappeared amid coverage of coronavirus. (Worth noting:
Biden, too, has struggled to attract media attention as he seeks to pivot to a
general election fight against President Donald Trump.)
And as Sanders' chances have decreased, whispers have begun to emerge that
now is the time for Sanders to acknowledge reality and bow out of the race.
That things would end -- for all intents and purposes -- for Sanders in
Wisconsin is a cruel reality. The Wisconsin primary has been a massive mess for
weeks, as the Democratic governor and Republican-led state legislature were
unable to agree on changes that would avoid having voters turn out in person
amid a stay-at-home order designed to limit the spread of coronavirus. After
much legal wrangling, in-person voting went forward on Tuesday despite those
health concerns.
But Sanders, who had called on the primary to be rescheduled last week, made
clear that his campaign would not be conducting any sort of traditional
get-out-the-vote operation in Wisconsin.
"Let's be clear: holding this election amid the coronavirus outbreak
is dangerous, disregards the guidance of public health experts, and may very
well prove deadly," Sanders said in a statement released Monday night.
While it's possible Sanders' decision to not aggressively turn out his
voters might buy him a little bit more time in the race -- we didn't even try
to win! -- there's simply no way to look at Biden's delegate lead, the
remaining calendar and the way in which coronavirus is dominating all aspects
of society and conclude that Sanders is still a relevant player in the race.
That Sanders' second campaign for president ends with this sort of
whimper should not in any
way diminish what the Vermont democratic socialist accomplished over these last
five-ish years. Sanders' impact on the Democratic Party over that period of
time is absolutely massive. He dragged the party's establishment -- at times
unwillingly -- far further to the ideological left on a panoply of issues,
chief among them health care and climate change.
Sanders did so by understanding far earlier and with far more clarity
than anyone else in the Democratic Party where its base was -- and what it
wanted from its future leaders. Sanders offered big, unapologetically liberal
solutions to the problems facing the country -- and built a grassroots army of
supporters that were (and are) the envy of every other Democratic politician.
All of which means that Sanders' ability to continue to influence the
direction of the party is far from over.
"If I'm the nominee I can tell you one thing: I would very much want
Bernie to be part of the journey, not as a vice presidential nominee but just
engaging in all the things that he's worked so hard to do, many of which I
agree with," Biden said Tuesday morning.
What has ended, however, are Sanders' presidential aspirations.
William
Ernest Henley
From
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Ernest Henley (23 August 1849 – 11 July 1903) was an influential
English poet, critic and editor of the late Victorian era in England. Though he
wrote several books of poetry, William Ernest Henley is remembered most often
for his 1875 poem "Invictus", a piece which recurs in popular
awareness (e.g., see the 2009 Clint Eastwood film, Invictus). A fixture in
literary circles, the one-legged Henley was also the inspiration for Robert
Louis Stevenson's character Long John Silver (Treasure Island, 1883), while his
young daughter Margaret inspired J.M. Barrie’s choice of the name Wendy for the
heroine of his play Peter Pan (1904).[1]
Invictus
By William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to
pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried
aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but
unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the
shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me
unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments
the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
Poet Bio
Born in Gloucester, England, poet, editor, and critic William Ernest
Henley was educated at Crypt Grammar School, where he studied with the poet
T.E. Brown, and the University of St. Andrews. At age 12 Henley was diagnosed
with tubercular arthritis that necessitated the amputation of one of his legs
just below the knee; the other foot was saved only through a radical surgery
performed by Joseph Lister. As he healed in the infirmary, Henley began to
write poems, including “Invictus.” Henley was a close friend of Robert Louis
Stevenson, who reportedly based his Long John Silver character in Treasure
Island in part on Henley.
See More By This Poet
More Poems about Living
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