{"id":391571,"date":"2019-01-04T11:07:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T10:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/if-bernie-runs-wrong-question\/"},"modified":"2019-01-04T11:07:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T10:07:37","slug":"if-bernie-runs-wrong-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/if-bernie-runs-wrong-question\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIf Bernie Runs?\u201d Wrong Question"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drawing By Nathaniel St. Clair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Remembering Bernie Sanders at Prairie Lights<\/strong><\/p>\n

In late 2014 Bernie Sanders came out to Iowa City to speak before a large and enthusiastic crowd at that university town\u2019s venerable independent Prairie Lights Bookstore.\u00a0 It was part of his exploration before finally committing to running for the U.S. presidency as a Democrat\u00a0\u00a0 Iowa City was a key spot \u2013 a big campus town bastion of liberal Democrats whose support would be needed in the pivotal first-in-the nation Iowa Caucuses in January of 2016.<\/p>\n

Sanders spoke well and angrily against economic inequality and its terrible social and political consequences. He made a compelling case for single-payer health insurance, progressive taxation, the restoration of union organizing and collective bargaining rights, and positive climate action.<\/p>\n

It was a good progressive-populist talk with some nice identity politics thrown in for the university crowd. It made important points any leftist could applaud.<\/p>\n

There were two things missing from Bernie\u2019s presentation, however \u2013 a pair of deletions that made me wonder how serious he really was about fighting for the nation\u2019s working-class majority and against the nation\u2019s unelected dictatorship of capital.\u00a0 The first omission did not surprise me: any criticism of the American war and empire (\u201cdefense\u201d) machine as a barrier to the progressive policies he advocated for \u201cthe middle class.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second thing missing was any reference to any…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Drawing By Nathaniel St. Clair Remembering Bernie Sanders at Prairie Lights In late 2014 Bernie Sanders came out to Iowa City to speak before a large and enthusiastic crowd at that university town\u2019s venerable independent Prairie Lights Bookstore.\u00a0 It was part of his exploration before finally committing to running for the U.S. presidency as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391571","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=391571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}