Bernie Sanders: Is there a path to remove big money from politics? Goddamn right there is!

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Cris_Color@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨workreform@lemmy.world⁩

https://youtu.be/RdZDj3bA-mY?si=oXSfzn1g46KqZEKZ

One of the biggest obstacles facing workers issues in the US is the disproportionate representation that corporate interests recieve, due to funding campaigns indirectly through citizens united. Bernie highlights the end of citizens’ united, and public funding for political campaigns as key pathways to fix the outsized political impact of corporate interests

As long as corporate interests bankroll political campaigns, the people we can vote for will be elected partially at the behest of companies, and will have a conflict of interest in representing American workers

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Cris_Color@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
If you’re not already familiar with how the Citizens United decision works, it’s worth learning about!

This 4 and a half minute long video “So You Want to Bribe a Politician” is a fantastic and accessible explainer :)

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ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Lmfao, what a joke…

He should know better. He should know that as long as both exist, capital and state (and especially, but not exclusively in the US, organised religion) are inseparably intertwined, by motherfucking design, and the only way to separate them, is to abolish both and start from scratch and without the influence of either (while Sanders, like all other politicians, has a deeply vested interest in maintaining at least half of the equation - the state and its existing form of government, and its, and his own, influence).

I’m seriously getting sick of this feeble bullshit being what people think leftism is.

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- chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  the only way to separate them, is to abolish both and start from scratch
  
  Ok, well, for those of us who don’t think a state of civil war following total collapse of the United States government is a good idea I’m glad there’s people like him trying to work out another path forward.
  
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- surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Your purity makes you ineffective and useless.
  
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- Cris_Color@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It kinda feels like you’re advocating the viewpoint that anything less than total revolution is useless. While I understand feeling like the system is working as intended, I don’t think that means we can’t improve things short of overthrowing the government and enforcing a more just society through violence. And I think that the argument that short of a complete rewrite there’s nothing we can do really just makes people feel more defeated and apathetic. If you wanna win the war, morale is kinda important.
  
  I find it very easy to let perfect be the enemy of good, and I think that policy change that moves the country in the right direction, like putting more power (proportionally) in the hands of the American public is a good thing worth fighting for, regardless of whether you’d like a future that’s further from our current reality.
  
  (Also, your comment comes across as pretty angry and that’s perfectly understandable given the state of the world, but please know I’m not disagreeing with you trying to start an argument or flame war about whose political opinion is correct, I don’t really think that’s productive and don’t really want to be the target of someone’s anger)
  
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- iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  no matter how extreme you are there are those who are more extreme. Some would claim that humans are flawed and will always try to abuse any system you come up with so all humanity must be wiped if we want to get rid of this.
  
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SoJB@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Also Bernie Sanders:

Is there a path to cleanse all Palestinians from Palestine? Yahweh-damn right there is!

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- iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Also Bernie Sanders:
  
  “Cruel and illegal war on Gaza must end, we must block arms sales to Israel”
  
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- Visstix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You are not helping your cause with bullshit. Unless your goal is to disrupt things.
  
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- gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Tf are you talking about
  
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- affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  do you have a source to back up this outlandish claim?
  
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- Cris_Color@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Honest question, is his record on palestine mixed? He’s made a lot of pro palestine comments but if there’s nuance to whether he’s supported them, or where he’s drawn the line I’d be interested to know about it
  
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- jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Wow
  
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  - Cris_Color@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    For the sake of being clear, Bernie has criticized Israel very explicitly and has condemned their violence more than the vast majority of US politicians, please don’t just take what that random guy said at face value.
    
    Its entirely possible Bernie has a mixed record on Palestine or isn’t a perfect representative (I’d need to go look at primary sources and ideally voting records), but the person who left that comment is likely just expressing their anger at feeling like there’s not more they can do to help, knowing that lives are being lost
    
    Hopelessness that turns into bitterness is understandable in the current global political landscape but isn’t a good source of credible information
    
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