{"id":255849,"date":"2016-07-14T07:23:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T07:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bernie-sanders-endorses-hillary-clinton-candidate-of-wall-street-and-corporate-power\/"},"modified":"2016-07-14T22:01:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T22:01:27","slug":"bernie-sanders-endorses-hillary-clinton-candidate-of-wall-street-and-corporate-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/bernie-sanders-endorses-hillary-clinton-candidate-of-wall-street-and-corporate-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton, Candidate of Wall Street and Corporate Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" readability=\"171.488208067\">\n<div id=\"attachment_84685\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-84685 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/07\/shutterstock_292748141-3.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_292748141 (3)\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/07\/shutterstock_292748141-3.jpg 500w, http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2016\/07\/shutterstock_292748141-3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/gallery-883106p1.html?cr=00&amp;pl=edit-00\">Juli Hansen<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/editorial?cr=00&amp;pl=edit-00\">Shutterstock.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bernie Sanders threw in the towel today in his epic campaign to win the Democratic Party\u2019s nomination for president, standing on a stage in Portsmouth, New Hampshire beside the woman he had spent the whole primary season denouncing as a tool of the corporate elite and especially of the Wall Street banking cabal, and saying he endorsed her as the party\u2019s candidate for president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The event marked the sad, if widely predicted, end to what for a brief time had electrified millions of young and working class voters: a major party candidate for president openly calling himself a socialist, proudly harking back to his days as a radical civil rights activist instead of trying to hide his past and his arrest record, and unabashedly condemning the greed, corruption and lust for power of the nation\u2019s ruling elite.<\/p>\n<p>I confess to having been inspired by Sanders\u2019 quixotic campaign myself, and while I\u2019m disappointed that he has ended it in such a dismal and humiliating manner, I\u2019m not sorry he ran. Thanks to Bernie Sanders, the word \u201csocialism\u201d is no longer a pejorative in American politics. It is a political philosophy to which millions of young people are now drawn. That is something that can and will be built upon. For at least two generations it was not possible to call one\u2019s self a socialist and be taken seriously in the United States of Capitalism. Of course, Sanders didn\u2019t achieve this breakthrough by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/07\/13\/bernie-sanders-endorses-hillary-clinton-candidate-of-wall-street-and-corporate-power\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Hansen\u00a0|\u00a0Shutterstock.com Bernie Sanders threw in the towel today in his epic campaign to win the Democratic Party\u2019s nomination for president, standing on a stage in Portsmouth, New Hampshire beside the woman he had spent the whole primary season denouncing as a tool of the corporate elite and especially of the Wall Street banking cabal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-255849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}