Howie Hawkins on Bernie Sanders May 2020 interview of Hawkins by G. Baszak . . . GB: Some might say that it was the function of Bernie Sanders all along to get young people to place their hopes in the Democrats...
HH: I think it’s true. My friend, the late Bruce Dixon used the sheepdog metaphor. Whether it was Bernie’s intention or not, that was the effect. And I think that was his intention. His wife, Jane Sanders, spoke to the Left Forum in New York City in 2018 and told the audience in the opening plenary to register as Democrats. I stood in the back and gave it a thumbs down. She said, I know you’re not going to do that, but you should. He wanted that so that people would vote for him in the primaries this time. That’s been his function. It’s a shame. I knew him in the 70s when he was a third-party candidate with the Liberty Union. I worked on his campaign and dropped leaflets for him. When he set up his Eugene Debs slideshow, I arranged showings of it. But then when he wanted to get into Congress after being mayor of Burlington, he got a deal with the Democrats in Vermont and basically said, don’t run a serious candidate against me as a Democrat, and I will make sure that progressives in Vermont won’t run in some of the races that you do want to win. They’ve had this deal going on. Bernie is nominally an independent, but in practice he’s functionally a Democrat. For example, in the last Senate election in 2018 when he got re-elected to the U.S. Senate, he was in the Democratic primary and then he declined the nomination. So he’s on the ballot as an independent, but there was no Democrat because he’d gotten their nomination too. . . . On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 12:45 PM Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: Joe Biden Torpedoes Bernie Sanders: 'I Beat the Socialist' https://www.mediaite.com/news/joe-biden-torpedoes-bernie-sanders-in-pitch-to-wisconsin-voters-worried-about-socialism-i-beat-the-socialist/ On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 3:55 PM Roger Kulp <[email protected]> wrote: > This is so wrong,and so revisionist,where do you start? The fact that Sanders > isn't really a socialist? Or how Obama rigged the primaries to get the other > candidates to drop out,after Bernie's big primary wins? Bernie is such a > party animal,he is never going to call out Obama's gerrymandering, the way he > never called out HRC's and DWS's rigging the election against him, in 2016. I > couldn't believe anybody supported Bernie in 2020, after how he shafted his > supporters in 2016. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1841): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1841 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/77019875/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
