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]]>The Democratic leadership, the mainstream media, and likely most of Hillary Clinton’s supporters will never address the sabotage of American democracy that they were complicit with in 2016.
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]]>WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Twitter may not be the best place to decide the future of the U.S. economy. But square off a Nobel laureate and a former U.S. Treasury chief against a firebrand professor from a state university in New York, and an otherwise obscure debate over “modern monetary theory,” or MMT, becomes a center ring battle over how the Democratic Party should shape economic policy ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
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]]>With U.S. government Kelton currently works as a professor of public policy and economics at Stony Brook University. Previously, she served as chief economist for the Democrats on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee and was a senior economic advisor to Below is the Q&A with Kelton, edited for time and clarity.
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]]>Bernie Sanders in 2020? Here is his long history with pseudoscience
At 76 years old many assumed that 2016 would be the last time Bernie Sanders would run for office. The media told a different story today as it was reported that he gathered a team of advisers to discuss running for President again in 2020.
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]]>Why Bernie Sanders’ radicalism can take out Trump | Nathan Robinson
When it comes to beating Trump, the Vermont senator is the person for the job. Nobody else comes close
Some key points from the article…
—“…even those who do not share Democratic socialist instincts should get behind Sanders. He’s a pragmatic choice. Nobody is better positioned to take on Donald Trump. Sanders has name recognition and widespread popularity. He knows how to campaign well, has a network of organizers, and can pack stadiums. He does well at town halls and in debates against Republicans.
Since 2016, polls consistently show him beating Trump. Initially, there were those who doubted these numbers, saying that as voters got to know Sanders they would turn away from his radicalism. This turned out to be false. As voters got to know him, they liked him…”—
—“…Sanders has an unusual advantage against Trump: he’s capable of effectively countering the type of nationalist populism that elevated Trump to office, by offering a more hopeful and heartfelt appeal to popular instincts. He is capable of going to working-class communities and speaking to people without seeming patronizing or insincere. He does particularly well in the midwest, the exact areas that were so critical to Trump’s victory…”—
—“…Sanders is the perfect weapon against Trump’s plutocratic “populism”. He has experience, skill and principles. People like him and trust him, even when they don’t completely share his politics.
What’s more, this moment in history calls for radicalism – issues like climate change, runaway corporate power, racial inequity cannot be solved by someone with only a tepid commitment to political change. This is Bernie’s time, and both progressives and moderates alike should rally behind his candidacy.”—
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]]>Asher Edelman endorses Bernie Sanders – Business Insider
The real life Gordon Gekko is supporting Bernie Sanders because of a basic economic principle
Asher Edelman, an investor who was one of the inspirations for the nefarious corporate raider Gordon Gekko in the movie “Wall Street,” made a surprise presidential endorsement on CNBC’s Fast Money last week: He came out swinging for democrat Bernie Sanders. Most interesting was Edelman’s reason for supporting Sanders (emphasis ours): “Well, I think it’s quite simple again.
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]]>Bernie Sanders in 2020? Here is his long history with pseudoscience
At 76 years old many assumed that 2016 would be the last time Bernie Sanders would run for office. The media told a different story today as it was reported that he gathered a team of advisers to discuss running for President again in 2020.
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]]>Business By Guy Rolnik Why money in politics allows those in power to determine the rules of the game Last month, The George J. Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business launched the Capture Index that looks at the concentration of donations to the presidential candidates.
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]]>The post Why Are So Many Young Voters Falling for Old Socialists? – The New York Times appeared first on Rationally Thinking Out Loud.
]]>There’s nothing inherently radical about youth. But our politics have been shaped by an era of financial crisis and government complicity. Especially since 2008, we have seen corporations take our families’ homes, exploit our medical debt and cost us our jobs. We have seen governments impose brutal austerity to please bankers.
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]]>In the Rust Belt, they hated Hillary-that’s what Tom Frank found on his recent book tour for the paperback edition of Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? Also: Is Ivanka Trump responsible for her father’s attack on Syria? Amy Wilentz comments on the president’s…
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]]>This post is hosted on the Huffington Post’s Contributor platform. Contributors control their own work and post freely to our site. If you need to flag this entry as abusive, send us an email. You can blame Russia for a lot of things, but you can’t blame Putin for deceiving Clinton into elevating Donald Trump.
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]]>Ever since election night-when Hillary Clinton tanked and Donald Trump became the next leader of the free world-the most prominent allies and alumni of Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign have maintained a succinct message for Team Hillary: We. Told. You. So.
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]]>There’s good reason to believe much of Bernie Sanders’s message would resonate with the very same Trump voters in the midwest that Hillary Clinton lost.
But would all of it? Should the Democratic Party embrace just Sanders’s anti-establishment, anti-Wall Street rhetoric? Or should they also sign onto his very aggressive environmental and energy policies?
MSNBC’s special forum with Bernie Sanders showed the promise (and limits) of his political appeal
A window into the big fight over the Democratic Party’s future.
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]]>BURLINGTON, Vt., Nov. 9 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Wednesday after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States:
“Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and the establishment media. People are tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low-wage countries, of billionaires not paying any federal income taxes and of not being able to afford a college education for their kids – all while the very rich become much richer.
“To the degree that Mr. Trump is serious about pursuing policies that improve the lives of working families in this country, I and other progressives are prepared to work with him. To the degree that he pursues racist, sexist, xenophobic and anti-environment policies, we will vigorously oppose him.”
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