‘This Is a War’ for Democratic Party’s Future, Says Sanders of AIPAC’s Super PAC

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- May 21, 2022 at 9:44 AM - Views: 54 #487879
  The 12th Congressional District in...
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  ‘This Is a War’ for Democratic Party’s Future, Says Sanders of AIPAC’s Super PAC
  
  Sen. Bernie Sanders doubled down on his criticism of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and its newly created super PAC on Friday, telling The New York Times that the powerful anti-Palestinian rights lobbying group’s foray into Democratic primary politics is threatening the future of the party and of U.S. democracy.
  
  As Common Dreams reported this week, AIPAC’s super PAC, United Democracy Project (UDP), is spending heavily in several Democratic primary races to defeat progressives who support Palestinian rights and are critical of the billions of dollars in U.S. funding that goes to the Israeli military annually.
  
  AIPAC’s spending in key races in North Carolina, Texas, Pennsylvania, and other states is in service of the group’s goal “to create a two-party system, Democrats and Republicans, in which both parties are responsive to the needs of corporate America and the billionaire class,” Sanders told the Times.
  
  “This is a war for the future of the Democratic Party,” the Vermont independent senator added. “They are doing everything they can to destroy the progressive movement in this country.”
  
  https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/20/war-democratic-partys-future-says-sanders-aipacs-super-pac?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1653109609
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- May 21, 2022 at 12:49 PM #487887
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  The 12th Congressional District in PA was HEAVILY influenced by the Israeli lobby in negative ads against Summer Lee
  
  Summer Lee won, not by much, but in SPITE of the effort of the Democratic party’s favored one to replace Democrat Mike Doyle. Too bad for Steve Irwin? Nope. He was gonna be the next Corporately controlled Democrat of the 18th.
  
  Fuck the corporate Democratic party and congratulations to Summer Lee. Your job now is NOT to turn into AOC and the rest of the squad. If you do, you know you will be primaried, and the Israeli lobby can pound sand up their ass right along with those corporate Dems.
  Hell, no... I'm not giving up...
- May 21, 2022 at 12:50 PM #487888
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  Blah, blah, blah
  
  I believe that Greta Thunberg quote sums up Bernie quite nicely.
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  - May 21, 2022 at 3:15 PM #487911
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    Couldn’t have said it any better
    
    ‘The future of the party’ -as if it ever had any- had the last nail put in its coffin when Sanders folded to the Clinton campaign in 2016…It’s been downhill from there.
    
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- May 21, 2022 at 1:34 PM #487899
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  At this point, the best future for the Democratic Party is its destruction.
  
  It is completely corrupt, worthless to most Americans. Yes, I’ve seen the impact of the Israel lobby, for I live in what is now Shontel Brown’s district. They poured millions of dollars in to crush Nina Turner because she had criticized Israel in the past. She responded by cravenly condemning the BDS movement and sucking up to Joe Biden, and got a whopping 33% of the vote because most people who used to support her saw she was gunning to be the next AOC; just another celebrity progressive politician.
  
  Even the progressives who have won in the past few years have all bowed down to power once they were ensconced in Washington. There is no point in putting one’s hopes for positive change in anyone running as a Democrat.
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  - May 21, 2022 at 1:41 PM #487900
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    You might like Geoff Young who won a primary
    
    https://www.young4ky.com/
    
    SV freaked out that he won because of his position on Russia and that he wants to abolish the CIA.
    
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    Like many public systems, GOP want to rip the battery out + say the whole car doesn’t work, so they can sell it for parts - AOC
    - May 21, 2022 at 1:45 PM #487903
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      I don’t trust ANYONE running as a Democrat anymore.
      
      Maybe Young will surprise me, but until he does I won’t trust him at all. I do the same thing with Republicans. These days, they are the ones who sometimes pleasantly surprise me, like when some of them got together to shoot down the Ministry of Truth at DHS.
      
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    - May 21, 2022 at 1:55 PM #487904
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      Abolish the CIA!!!! Yes this is someone I would fund Death squad of the USA
      
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- May 21, 2022 at 6:21 PM #487923
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  The war is over.
  
  We lost.
  - May 21, 2022 at 7:53 PM #487942
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    Yes.
    
    There are still some little partisan pockets of incrementalism believers, but the machine itself runs things now; individual politicians are now just fodder.
    
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