Bernie Sanders has just put the Wall Street/corporate lobbyists and their DNC proxies into panic mode - expect an all-out war
Bernie
Sanders campaign announced something extraordinary for the US
political standards. It has raised $18.2 million from just under
900,000 individual donations since launching 41 days ago!
As
commondreams reported:
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Bernie
Sanders' presidential campaign announced Tuesday that it raised
$18.2 million from just under 900,000 individual donations since
launching 41 days ago.
Sanders'
first quarter haul tops all other 2020 Democratic candidates who
have reported their fundraising totals. Sen. Kamala Harris
(D-Calif.) raised $12 million in the first quarter, and South
Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg raised $7 million.
Faiz
Shakir, Sanders' campaign manager, said during a press call that
88 percent of the donations were $200 or less, and the average
donation was $20.
The
profession with the most donors to Sanders' campaign was teachers,
according to Shakir.
In
total, 525,000 individuals donated to Sanders' campaign during the
first quarter of 2019.
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Real change always takes place from the bottom
on up, not the top on down. We are building an unprecedented
coalition to not only defeat Trump but transform the country into one
that works for all people.
Thank you to all who
are a part of this movement. Let's keep going. https://t.co/FATWexiL7Q
—
Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) April
2, 2019
The
facts are indeed astonishing.
This is
a clear proof of a real grassroots movement, directly connected to
the most popular (by far) candidate for the 2020 US presidency. The
picture shows a mass movement from the bottom, which is ready to
"hijack" the Democratic party through Bernie Sanders.
The
implications for the corporate Democrats and their wealthy sponsors
here are quite obvious. Therefore, we should expect an all-out war
with all kinds of dirty tricks by the sinister troika of the liberal
media, corporate Dems and Wall Street mafia against Bernie Sanders.
It will be one final attempt to get rid of Bernie for good.
Yet, the
importance of this unique turning point in the US political history
probably extends beyond the Democratic party. It depicts a society
that changes radically.
As
David Harvey described
in his book A
Brief History of Neoliberalism, “The
supposedly ‘progressive’ campaign finance laws of 1971 in effect
legalized the financial corruption of politics. A crucial set of
Supreme Court decisions began in 1976 when it was first established
that the right of a corporation to make unlimited money contributions
to political parties and political action committees was protected
under the First Amendment guaranteeing the rights of individuals (in
this instance corpor- ations) to freedom of speech.”
It seems
that the American society and especially the American youth no longer
tolerates this status. And it starts taking its fate in its own
hands. It now bypasses such despicable practices that have been
legalized by institutions that have been taken over by the US
corporate beasts in the early 70s.
That is
why it is very important this grassroots movement to boost its
support further. Not just to throw more money into Bernie's campaign.
That's not the primary goal. The point is to discourage the lobbyists
from putting more and more money to their puppets in the Democratic
party. Once they realize that their money will go wasted - because
the grassroots will be much stronger - the corporate Democrats will
be crushed in no time, as they depend solely on their wealthy donors.
Bernie
points it out more and more often in his speeches lately: 'it's not
me, it's not Bernie, it's all of you, it's all of us'. He is right
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