Tuesday 19 February 2019

Feel The Bern Again?

Bernie Sanders would have beaten Donald Trump in 2016. But Trump is going to beat whoever the Democrats nominate in 2020. And Sanders is still wrong about drugs, not that he would be able to do much about that as President. However, he has also become more obviously wrong about foreign policy, joining in the Russia-baiting over Syria and other questions.

And what does Sanders offer to those who understand the need of an approach to climate change which protected and extended secure employment with civilised wages and working conditions, which encouraged economic development around the world, which upheld the right of the working classes and of nonwhite people to have children, which held down and as far as practicable reduced the fuel prices that always hit the poor hardest, and which refused to restrict travel opportunities or a full diet to the rich?

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