but we all have our burdens to bear.

And, yes, it IS a terrible burden... imagine how much worse it'll get when President Sanders takes the oath of office and becomes the most popular Democratic President in U.S. history!! (Don't know if Bernie's heart can take it.)


Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join the revolution!!

Let's see how that serves him. Shall we?

Sanders at high noon fighting the establishment by himself with just about only AOC’s support to count on. Doesn’t seem to me his being the “special one” will serve him in pushing through is agenda.

Warren knows how to get things done. And worked on these issues long before she entered the senate. A LONG career of actually researching the problems so progressive minded politicians and lawmakers, like Sanders and others, could benefit and learn from her years of work and the data collected and utilize it in pursuit of their own political or legislative goals.

via druidity

"The Case For Elizabeth Warren”

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/15/21054083/elizabeth-warren-2020-democratic-primary

.......
It was Warren, in her 2004 book The Two-Income Trap, who recast the state of the American middle class. Those rising incomes? The result of families sending women into the workforce, which meant they now needed to pay for child care and had fewer options for rescue if anything happened to the primary breadwinner. Those cheap consumer goods? They didn’t make up for the rising cost of housing, health insurance, and child care. And that informational plenty? It hadn’t stopped predatory industries from bilking ordinary Americans.

.......
In 2010, the Roosevelt Institute held a conference at which Warren spoke, and the think tank released an e-book, with the stirring title “Make Markets Be Markets.” Warren was, at this point, pushing for the creation of a consumer protection agency. Willing a new federal agency into being is the kind of political project that can take generations. Congressional chairs and even US presidents spend their careers fighting, and failing, to achieve more modest institutional reforms. Warren faced yet longer odds. Her power was informal. She wasn’t a US senator, a Cabinet secretary, or the president. She controlled no committees, commanded no voting blocs, owned no budgets, was the key vote on no legislation.

From a sociological perspective, working class has a specific definition and is usually considered between lower class and middle class. Working class and middle class are two different things.

Three modern perspectives:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_middle_class

"Sanders appears to be trying to increase class consciousness in America, "

By intentionally misusing the term? That's a curious way to increase consciousness. Blurring the lines between two different classes would seem to be doing the opposite.

As an aside, if all one uses to differentiate candidates is their usage of the terms "middle class" and "working class", one should probably reconsider one's priorities.

class and is by mere happenstance.

Using definitions used over the years, he definitely isn't from a "working class" background. Salespeople were considered "professional class".

throughout most of his 20s and 30s, and thereafter only "worked" in government can claim with a straight face to have come from the "working class."

Preposterous, if you ask me.

Bernie worked throughout his 20s and 30s whether you respect his occupations or not, furthermore Bernie never gave up in his pursuit of a political career no matter the setbacks, to me that's the mark of a winner.

Not to mention the albatross around his neck.

Working class people act differently that Sanders did, in my experience. Leave it at that.

but most conscientious Americans don't.

That not "working" class.

I'd buy "intentionally non-working" class.

Members of the working class don't generally embrace people they regard as layabouts, in my experience. Especially in his circumstances.

...BACKGROUND, meaning earlier than when he started working, cough cough.

And I never held a job for which I never showed up for more than six months, still drawing a salary.

from grass roots, working class people in this country tells me I'm not alone. That must REALLY Bern upper-crust elitists, who seek to keep working class people down.

Thankfully, Bernie's roots with everyday people, HIS kind of people, is why he relates so well to their condition and is willing to go to bat for them... and SWING FOR THE FENCES!! As Bernie likes to say, it's not about HIM, it's about US!!

Finally, someone who fuckin' gets it!! A politician whom we can look up to with pride, knowing that when Bernie gets to the White House, he'll be the people's President and look after the interests of those of us on Main Street, rather than those on Wall Street!!


Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join the revolution!!

....he became mayor of 35,000 population Burlington, Vermont.

as an aide at a psychiatric hospital, as a Head Start preschool teacher, as a carpenter, and as a freelance writer for local publications.

Despite his economic travails Bernie never gave up, as I posted above in my book he's a winner and history has proved him out.

I got a full time job in my profession a few months after graduating from college. Why couldn't he?

BTW, I disagree with your assessment of history.

You disagree with with my assessment of history but offer no rebuttal.

Familiar with Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York"?

that he was a terrible writer of fiction (after the scandal over his deeply offensive rape fantasy broke wide open).

He seemed unable to keep the Head Start and psychiatric aide jobs. Why?

Sanders could clear up any misconceptions about his "work" record, but he's not forthcoming.

I'd love to see the entire record of his work experience.

Is that too much to ask of a person running for the highest office in the land?

your calling whatever that is?

Personally I don't care if Bernie was a successful writer, carpenter or whatever, his decades of public service, steadfast integrity, keen judgment, universal vision and unconditional commitment to the American People are what infinitely matters more to me.

And found work in my chosen field almost immediately upon graduating from university and worked diligently thereafter to support myself, my wife, and my son.

No "odd jobs" for me, post college. I did bartend durning my final year or so of college and worked in a medical lab during high school summers.

Unlike you, I do care that every job Sanders took on was seemingly done without competence and/or he got terminated.

The leader of the free work should be a person who exhibits competence and caring in all his endeavors, from my point of view.

We also don't agree in our estimations of Sanders' judgement, integrity, or vision. Polar opposite views. I can assure you.

especially, if it's BERNIE, of all people, we're talkin' about!! The work "those people" do, apparently, are not REAL jobs.

Wake up Uncle Joe!! You obviously need to be re-educated... I hope you will seek and receive the help you need and, one day, you'll see the light!! hahaha!!




Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join the revolution!!

For himself.

I knew it was pretty late in life, just did not remember his age at the time.

Never missed an election since. Any election. I show up when there is one inconsequential item on a municipal ballot.

I don't understand people like Sanders, who sit out (until he votes for himself).

Bothers me.

...for Jimmy Carter in 1976 in their Manhattan office. There was no internet back then, but I remember after the polls closed people were driving around in their cars blasting their horns and waving to each other.

No way.

Ask him if he ever lived paycheck to paycheck.

Perhaps he should do some research into how they are used by sociologists and economists.

using "middle class" to describe everyone not in poverty or being a multi-millionaire.

The median income in America is approximately 63,000 dollars, now square that with the first paragraph in the OP.

all you need do is google "corporate media" or "corporate media conglomerates," Wikipedia has some informative articles on it but there are numerous other sources as well.

The fact is I know you don't care if only six corporate mega conglomerates own 90+% of everything the American People see on T.V. hear on the radio or read in publications.

You're comfortable with that.

before I bust a gut from some of the hilarious responses your posts are generating!!


Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join the revolution!!

Relatively:

That was an attack on a member here, yet you know that. You can spin it anyway you want.

If it was said to you, I would feel the same way and call it out as an attack on you.

You can do better than this.

So powerful he made the author of the article ignorant of how the class structure works in American economics and sociology.

If he calls himself working class. My ass he is. Bwahahahahaaaaa!

use the term "working class" to describe anyone.

Why do you believe that is?

Lololololololol!

I call bullshit!
Hello! Senator with millions. Fuck

It is my understanding that even sanders has acknowledged that he cannot adopt his platform unless he holds rallies and this voter revolution occurs. Is this correct? How does this voter revolution work in the real world? Again as I understand this concept, so many new voters will rise up and force the GOP to be reasonable. Is this correct? How many new voters does it take to accomplish this goal and where are these voters? How will these new voters force the GOP to be reasonable when so many GOP officeholders are in gerrymandered districts? Will these new voters move to these districts in time to vote for sanders’ platform? If these new voters are real, then why are theses new voters not showing up in the polls? New voters in such large numbers so as to cause the GOP to be reasonable should show up in polling. Are these new voters waiting for something? If these new voters really exist in the real world, why has sanders not used these new voters to get some meaningful legislation passed?

I look forward to answers to these questions

....classes that he can use to pit Americans against each other, i.e., "working class" vs. "middle class", etc.

He talks about the "ruling class", but where has he been for the last 30+ years? A member of the ruling class!
He talks about the "millionaire and billionaire class" (now truncated to "billionaire class" ), but where has he been the last few years? A member of the millionaire class.

He was never "working class" himself, nor was it his "background" as he likes to say.

Link to tweet

See? I do know.