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Monday, June 12th, 2017

Bernie Sanders lambasts ‘absolute failure’ of Democratic party’s strategy

Author:     Adam Gabbatt
Source:     The Guardian (U.K.)
Publication Date:     Saturday 10 June 2017 23.14 EDT
 Link: Bernie Sanders lambasts ‘absolute failure’ of Democratic party’s strategy
Stephan:   In my view Bernie Sanders is accurately describing what I see as a very alarming trend: the failure of the Democratic Party to respond appropriately  to a strong collective intention to make wellbeing the first priority. You would think that with the Canadian election, Macron's election in France, the just completed U.K. election, and what's going on in the Nordic countries this  meta-trend would be the obvious way to go. The Clinton corporatism, the debasement of the party as "Republican light" needs to end. Forget about politics; just look at wellness. Sanders is right.

Vermont Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders Credit: Brian Snyder/Reuters

CHICAGO — Bernie Sanders has criticised the Democratic party’s current direction as “an absolute failure” in a speech at the People’s Summit in Chicago.

Speaking to a crowd of 4,000 activists, Sanders hailed the “enormous progress in advancing the progressive agenda”, saying the increasing House and Senate support for a $15 minimum wage and the opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership showed the success of the movement.

But the Vermont senator said that establishment Democrats were standing in the way of further progress.

“The current model and the current strategy of the Democratic party is an absolute failure,” Sanders said.

“The Democratic party needs fundamental change. What it needs is to open up its doors to working people, and young people, and older people who are prepared to fight for social and economic justice.

“The Democratic party must understand what side it is on. And that cannot be the side of Wall Street, or the fossil fuel industry, or the drug […]

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