Sanders literally founded a third party. The Vermont Progressive Party. Which currently has six members in the Vermont State House and Senate, and is, as it happens, not controlled by oligarchs.
Sanders literally did what this meme condemns him for not doing.
I don’t agree with all his positions, but Christ. Do better, OP.
Guys, this is nonsense ragebait. Move on.
Build a party… the US has quite a few systems designed to make it impossible to build a party.
Take over a party and shift it’s goals… that we’ve seen at least partially with the tea party, though admitted it was a pretty small shift, and in the wrong direction.
why on earth is bernie the focus, over half of congress is shit republicans that explicitly are pushing nothing but horrible things. I’d say that 10% of democrats are outright undercover republicans (fetterman, Senima, formerly manchin), over half of the remaining democrats are corporatists at best (IE the pelosi, schumer etc…).
Bernie is clearly miles ahead of at least 95% of congress. The fact that he can’t start a political party by himself is, far from surprising. That’s a bit like asking, Asking bernie to start a political party, when in short all he is is one of the best congressmen we have, is a bit like asking a really good pastry baker “why haven’t you started a great multinational chain of Sushi restraunts”.
You’re looking for the Democrat party. Bernie is a progressive.
The progressive stance of “Israel has a right to defend itself”
Is there anyone in the American government doing more than Sanders to oppose Israel?
Sen. Bernie Sanders Has Become a Leading Critic of Israel’s War in Gaza
“If you look at the totality of what’s going on, it is not a war against Hamas; it is a war against the Palestinian people,” Sanders said.
The U.S. is complicit in the death and devastation in Gaza, Sanders said, because of its continued willingness to supply Israel with arms. He said he has focused more on conditioning or restricting such aid than on calls for a permanent ceasefire because that’s the most effective way for the U.S. to exert the leverage necessary to end the war.
“This is being done with your tax dollars,” Sanders said. “That’s what upsets me very, very much.”
Sanders to Force Votes to Block Arms Sales to Israel Amid Starvation in Gaza
Sanders said: “U.S. taxpayers have spent tens of billions of dollars in support of the racist, extremist Netanyahu government. Enough is enough. We cannot continue to spend taxpayer money on a government which has killed some 60,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 143,000 — most of whom are women, children and the elderly. We cannot continue supporting a government which has blocked humanitarian aid, caused massive famine and literally starved the people of Gaza.”
In the last two weeks, dozens of young children have died from starvation. Doctors say it will soon be too late to stop a wave of famine-related deaths in Gaza. Children’s bodies are eating themselves from within, their organs are shutting down. This is the direct result of Netanyahu’s policies.
Israel’s six-week blockade and subsequent replacement of the established United Nations distribution system with the untested Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has turned aid sites into civilian killing fields. In the last two months, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been shot while trying to get food aid, mostly at GHF sites. These near-daily massacres have seen Israeli soldiers repeatedly fire into unarmed crowds, testimony confirmed by American contractors.
“The time is long overdue for Congress to use the leverage we have — tens of billions in arms and military aid — to demand that Israel end these atrocities,” Sanders continued.
The Senate rejected S.J.Res.34, which would have prohibited the sale of $675 million in weapons to Israel, such as 1,000-pound bombs and Joint Direct Attack Munition guidance kits used in airstrikes, by a vote of 27–70. Nineteen Democrats joined Republicans to block the measure.
Bernie Sanders labels Netanyahu ‘war criminal’ as Israeli leader visits White House
Netanyahu started this war with a surprise unilateral attack against Iran, which has already killed hundreds of people and wounded many more. This attack was specifically designed to sabotage American diplomatic efforts: Israel assassinated the man overseeing Iran’s nuclear negotiating team, despite the fact that further talks with the United States were scheduled for Sunday. Whatever you think of the corrupt and authoritarian Iranian regime, this attack clearly violates international law and the United Nations Charter.
The United States must not be dragged into another of Netanyahu’s wars — not militarily or financially. The U.S. Constitution is crystal clear: there can be no offensive use of military force — against Iran or any other country — without an explicit authorization from Congress. No such authorization exists, and any such involvement would be illegal. Congress must not yield on this issue of enormous consequence.
And let’s remember who Benjamin Netanyahu is: He is a war criminal under indictment by the International Criminal Court for the use of starvation as a method of warfare and directing attacks against the civilian population in Gaza. At this very moment, in Gaza, Israel continues to prevent the U.N. and other aid groups from delivering desperately needed humanitarian aid to starving civilians. In just the last two weeks, Israeli forces have killed hundreds of civilians trying to reach the few militarized aid distribution sites the Israeli government has permitted to operate.
Thanks for putting in the effort to respond to this.
I truly think a lot of these posts are astro turf attempts design to hamstring bringing progressives together.
we have to build the coalition first and start making change before we have the luxury of nitpicking one another.
I truly think a lot of these posts are astro turf attempts
Of course you do, liberals are literally incapable of seeing anyone disagree with them without bringing out the shill accusations.
I truly think a lot of these posts are astro turf attempts design to hamstring bringing progressives together.
I think that you are absolutely correct here. That’s why I respond to these things as I do when I see them.
Sanders really is hellbent in offloading all of the culpability for the genocide (though he he denies that it’s a genocide) solely only Netanyahu.
This is my problem with it. He can do all the symbolic theatric shit he wants, but until he acknowledges what Israel is doing is genocidal then it just seems like a waste of time.
Yeah, at the end of the day he’s just a liberal Zionist who thinks this kind of overt carnage is detrimental to the overall project of Israeli settler colonialism
My goodness. What is your point? Don’t bother trying to help the Palestinian people if you don’t say exactly the right things? You think he’d have an easier time getting support for the bill if he used the word genocide?
It must be nice to live a life of such luxury that you can care more about the phrasing than the actions.
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You know, he is not wrong. That’s a bit like the bell curve meme. In the end it is Bibi who formed the government this way to stay in power and out of prison. It is his doing. And also the prolongation of hr war and spreading it to other areas of the ME. All a desperate move to stay out of prison
He’s on record as supporting an arms embargo on Israel