cal22 / mark

Yes, the DNC and Establishment Democrats will do all they can to keep their money from the Corporations coming, the power they are holding, and their jobs.  They are doing all the dirty things they were doing 4 years ago (and lost).  They’d prefer to lose to the Republicans than to their Progressive fellow Democrats.  I sure hope Bernie will be…[Read more]

I, too, have entertained the idea of AOC running for president a dozen years from now.  Would she become the youngest female president ever, too?  I don’t think I’d be around by then.  But I’ll be watching from the other side.  :)

Bernie, the one proven Progressive, who can be trusted to do his best for our entire nation.

For a couple of years now I’ve been making donations directly to politicians only – and not a cent to any political institutions.  That’s one way of dealing with this problem.  I suppose there are better ways.

@OhioBarbarian:  I’m quoting you: “… The corporate Dems like the corruption as much as the Republicans do. They don’t see anything wrong with it. They also have no problem with a warmongering foreign policy, supporting the genocide in Yemen, or putting kids in cages on the border. If they did, …”

I agree with you totally and would even go a s…[Read more]

90% of the main street media is owned by the falsehood-prone Republican press.  I wouldn’t want to be a recipient of their praise, and actually consider it an honor to be despised by them.

@maedhros:  Oddly enough, Bernie has picked up more fans and donations after his coronary stent surgery.  I also saw on TV today that Harris, cheered up by what happened to Bernie, also had gone to have a stent (or stents) put in.  And she is only 55.  The MSM say little or nothing about Bernie — thanks to the Establishment Democrats and the DNC…[Read more]

@djean:  Your assumption about what my “basic premise” is, is wrong.  Trump has the type of personality that irritates everyone.  He is his own worst enemy.  He is not capable of becoming a real member of any organization, because he is unable to give something of himself for the general good.   He wants to have everything for himself – first…[Read more]

@maedhros.  And we will do our best to make sure that a Progressive like Bernie will win in the Primaries this time.

@Ohio Barbarian:  I am quoting 2 sentences from your post:  “A vote for the Green is not a vote for Trump, period. For that matter, leaving the presidential line on the ballot blank is not a vote for Trump. I really wish you people would get those simple facts through your thick heads.”

@cal22:  Sometimes by making use of concrete examples, we ca…[Read more]

@Sadoldgal:

I agree.  Among the more recent presidents,  Carter has been the only decent human being.  And so is Bernie Sanders.  Whether he wins or not, he has already started a movement, and this movement should continue to grow.   We need this movement so badly!

To Maedhros:  Hi.  I think our democracy is close to death, but not yet dead.  Bernie is the living proof.  He is still fighting.  I believe many people feel the same way and are supporting him.  We do have the numbers.  But the going will still be rough, since Big Business corporations have been practicing  fraudulent election and voting practic…[Read more]

To Glinda:

Yes, I think that the majority of  Americans want change – real change.  We’ve been waiting for it for such a very long time, and most of us are fed up to the teeth with waiting, and still nothing is happening!  The DNC and Establishment Democrats, of course, don’t want things to change.  They’d be losing their jobs, money and…[Read more]

To LeftCoast:

“Democrats do it on the sly….”  Yes, ever since shortly after World War II.”  We’ve been turning nations upside down in the Middle East, Latin America, Asia.  Republicans, too.  And not necessarily on the sly.  I remember Mossadeqh, the legally elected prime minister of Iran.  We kicked him out and installed our preferred Shah…[Read more]

Does what I’ve written make any sense to you?  Do you believe as I do that our democracy, our way of life, is in danger – critical danger – of being rooted out and replaced with an Oligarchy, if not a total Dictatorship?  My guess is you don’t think the danger is so close yet.  You seem to feel relatively cool about the present situation we are in…[Read more]

Bernie is my choice, of course.  I sure hope he will be running.  But if he should not be running for whatever reason, I think any Democrat (even a 3rd Way Dem.) would be better than any Republican.  Just think of the Supreme Court for instance.  Ginsburg is doing her best to stay as long as she can.  Bless her!  But she can’t last forev…[Read more]

Hi Ohio:

If Bernie resumes his campaign, we can be sure that his heart condition is completely okay.  I’ve had a cholesterol deposit in one artery some 15 hears ago.  It’s still there, but has stabilized ever since.  I was on medication for 6 years with a strict diet (no animal fats….etc…..).  And since then I have been on diet alone.  The…[Read more]

To ThouArtThat:

Here’s an article by Greg Palast right in the homepage of our own JackpineRadicals forum “general discussion” about Trump’s victory over Hillary in 2016.  It’s in the right-hand column, the 4th article down.

By the way, I should also have written in my original post that since Hillary had won unfairly against Bernie in the…[Read more]

He wouldn’t have even reached the  Electoral College stage if his election had been honest from the beginning.

I agree that the DNC  had the Dem. primaries in 2016 rigged  in favor of Hillary against Bernie.