Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism - Micah Uetricht & Meagan Day
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Bernie Sanders’ presidential candidacies expanded the scope of political possibility in the United States, putting socialism and class politics back on the map. His radical campaign - not just for the Democratic presidential candidacy but against “the billionaire class” - helped catalyze other transformative left-wing politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to seek and win office, just as he inspired teachers from West Virginia to Los Angeles to win hard-fought, historic strike campaigns. Sanders has, in short, helped cohere a new movement in American politics.
But even when coverage of Sanders takes stock of the sea change he has affected in American politics, it all too often fails to grasp what’s unique about his approach. The senior senator from Vermont has demanded new policies and political approaches in this country - though he has also hinted at more, calling repeatedly for a “political revolution”, something that he says would involve “millions of Americans” getting involved in politics not just at the ballot box, but in their workplaces and neighborhoods, too.
In this book, Micah Uetricht and Meagan Day go beyond a simple balance sheet of Democratic Party politics. In a clear and effective style, they detail what we need to do to get beyond the Sanders campaign or presidency to transform the US from top to bottom.
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This post has 21 comments with rating of 5/5
July 1st, 2020
An important message.
July 1st, 2020
How do they go? Have authors of the book been living under a rock?
Divide people into belligerent groups, promote racism and sexism, dismantle the rule of law and law enforcement, incite violence, peacefully remove valuables from burning buildings and so on.
USA is a country where right-wing populism is historically much stronger than bolshevism. People usually prefer coke over pepsi. It’s as simple as that. Since violence is the last resort of the weak and stupid, that’s how they are going about enforcing their ideology now. It’s extremely risky in a country where most people have guns. When the majority of coke drinkers will be deprived of legal and material protection, they will take things into their own hands. And pepsi drinkers may not like what will happen next. When coke drinkers create their own order, they will have no need of the old, dysfunctional one.
July 1st, 2020
Beverages full of high-fructose corn syrup — pepsi, coke, and whatever else — are bad for your health.
Right-wing populism has dominated the US for the past 50 years, and what does it have to show for it? Neverending wars, an uneducated and unskilled populace, low wages, outsourced means of production, and a corporatocracy.
July 1st, 2020
@tekkendama, isn’t it odd how Bernie & Warren are multi-millionaires, with owning multiple homes and living in private/gated communities, but they aren’t giving their money away to support their “cause”?
If the politician making the pitch isn’t walking the walk, then they are feeding you a line of crap just to get your vote.
July 1st, 2020
How is Bernie giving his money away going to solve anything?
How will giving a million dollars away fix any of the following problems: neverending wars, an uneducated and unskilled populace, low wages, outsourced means of production, and a corporatocracy?
Bernie played his role. 2/3 of the US are in favor of Medicare For All. That’s one of many of his policies that people now take seriously.
He was willing to pay more in taxes as a part of a progressive tax system to cover every man, woman, and child. How is that not walking the walk?
And by the way, M4A would have saved people trillions of dollars—it was the cost-effective option. Don’t believe me? Just ask any other developed nation on the planet.
July 1st, 2020
We’re gonna do communism right this time!
July 1st, 2020
Yeah, because adopting policies that work in other market economies is communism…
This is why the US has had such a precipitous fall over the past few decades. No education. No critical thinking.
July 1st, 2020
@tekkendama, as to your question regarding Bernie donating his money, the answer is not a damn thing, but as a Senator, he doesn’t pay anything to his health care costs. He receives premium care at no charge.
While I disagree with your 2/3’s number, it’s in the ball park, but I wonder on how many of those same people polled would answer the question the same way when they found out that they would have to be put on a waiting list.
Or how about quality of care? Hospitals are mostly private ventures, they lose money on M4A care. In order to re-coup that lose, they would either have to reduce staff costs or charge more.
Then there is the wait list? If you’re reduced staff, you limit the number of patients that can be seen, so imagine having to wait a year or two to get a hip or knee replacement done.
Yes, M4A has saved patients trillions by passing the burden on to others through higher taxes. The only possible cost effective savings it could have would be to eliminate multiple insurance companies (hundreds of thousands of jobs) and putting the administration of it on the US government’s hands, which not only an ineffective organization (as demonstrated by the US Mail).
That’s why even Bernie couldn’t make a pitch the M4A wasn’t going cost the tax payer more in end. He ducked the question whenever it was posed.
M4A is the most expensive option out there for the average tax payer. And while I know it sounds great, when you’re paying more than half of your gross income in taxes to support programs that offer you little or no benefit (M4A, free education, …) then what incentive do you have to working harder and achieving more? Everything you do is counter-productive.
July 1st, 2020
@Tekkendama - “This is why the US has had such a precipitous fall over the past few decades. No education. No critical thinking.”
I’ll agree with you that education is very much a problem in the US, and there is very limited critical thinking abilities.
But we’ve thrown trillions of dollars toward education in the US, and the problem has only gotten worse.
Perhaps we should take the approach of India or China, those kids that score the best on their tests get to attend the better schools.
Of course, that will spin off into a race/poverty debate, but the concept is if you have the brain power and/or work hard it’s rewarded, not everyone receives a participation award.
At the same time, most universities spend far more on scholarship dollars for athletes and athletic facilities than on academic scholarships. Hmm, what a concept, having a university where education is the primary not secondary function.
Perhaps the education cost problem is because the priorities for most universities are screwed up.
July 1st, 2020
The problem with ideas that Americans choose to call “communism” “bolshevism” etc. is that they’re really not. America’s so-called left is what we scandinavians think as middle of the road, ho-hum, right-ish. It means that it’s rational and decent to try keep poverty and hunger in check. Our police doesn’t shoot people as the first act. We don’t leave people to live in the streets if we can help it. Our medical care is mostly free or very affordable. And we can speak our mind and our press is way more free than yours.
July 1st, 2020
@illodiini, I know you think that American police have shot first and ask questions later policy. But just to put that into perspective, in 2018:
https://www.newsmax.com/bernardkerik/police-shootings-crime-statistics/2019/01/22/id/899297/
1/22/2019 · Out of the 30-50 million interactions that the police had with the American public last year, 10 million people were arrested, and less than 0.01 percent were shot and killed by the police. Out of those 10 million people arrested, 47 of those shot and killed were unarmed, which equates to 0.00047 percent, 17 of which were black.
In 2018, 106 officers lost their lives, 55 due to felonious activities, and 51 due to accidental deaths.
July 1st, 2020
@illodiini, sorry, but you comment on your press being more free than ours is too funny to pass up.
Does your press tell more or less lies? Because in the US, it’s hard to know what to believe.
For example:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/st-louis-man-on-confrontation-with-protesters-i-was-worried-that-i-was-going-to-be-killed/ar-BB16cpN3?ocid=msedgntp
Was it a couple defending their home from peaceful protesters, or not? Why didn’t most of the media mention that those peaceful protesters tore down a gate in order to get into that private neighborhood and march to the mayor’s house? I was actually surprised when I saw CNN had posted a picture of the destroyed gate yesterday in one of their articles.
July 1st, 2020
When I say Scandinavia, I mean my country Finland. And my comment is quite valid, actually:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index
July 1st, 2020
@illodiini, thanks for the link it was very informative. Although I must admit I’m curious how in 2012 so many countries had negative scores.
The US seems to have become really tough on the press in 2009. Going from a score of 4 in 2009 to 22.49 in 2016 during the Obama years. Wow, considering all the whining the media does about Trump, his scores of 23.73 to 25.69 aren’t really that much worse.
You do have to love the line “Reporters Without Borders is careful to note that the index only deals with press freedom and does not measure the quality of journalism nor does it look at human rights violations in general”.
“Reporters Without Borders is careful to note that the index only deals with press freedom and does not measure the quality of journalism nor does it look at human rights violations in general.”
July 1st, 2020
Excellent. Thanks for this.
illodiini. Spot on!
July 2nd, 2020
Einstein: “Why Socialism”.
Defending billionaires will not make you a billionaire.
July 2nd, 2020
Is this about all the gentle souls burning down cities and destroying property? What was it I heard about socialism? Oh yeah, “Socialism works until you run out of other people’s money”
July 9th, 2020
If you like the philosophy of comrade Sanders, hop a boat to Venezuela.
July 17th, 2020
I always wonder: these brainwashed commie college kids…why don’t they just vacation in a communist country instead of an american tourist state? Why don’t they just go someplace where everything they believe has been put into policy? Venezuela should be like a south america-flavored Hawaii to them.
September 9th, 2020
Awesome
June 1st, 2021
this book is great - a lesson of US socialism history - I pity commentors who write without even try to read the actual book -
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