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Sanders Says Every Republican Who Backed Trump-GOP Budget 'Must Pay a Price at the Ballot Box'

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Sanders Says Every Republican Who Backed Trump-GOP Budget 'Must Pay a Price at the Ballot Box' | Common Dreams

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Sanders Says Every Republican Who Backed Trump-GOP Budget 'Must Pay a Price at the Ballot Box'

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Yeah, problem is it’s still 16 months until Election Day, and 18 until the next Congress is seated. That’s a lot of time for this current government to continue to do harm. I really wish we had recall elections at the national level.
- That's where the resistance has to last 16 to 40 months, slowing down and making people aware enough of these things:
  how unserious about budgets Republicans are
  how much they are trying to punish regular people (poor middle and moderately wealthy class),
  while also looking to use the they are spending to subsidize companies, multi-millionaires and billionaires.
  
  No words spent around reforming the democrats and getting them back on track, I see.
- And that's the problem. Americans have the memory of squirrels
- Still local. A lot happens locally
Sorry Bernie, I think we need to start considering some other boxes now. Not just the ballot variety.
- Will ones made of steel suffice?
  
  Copper jackets
I find it astounding that Americans STILL think there's democracy in America.
It's gone and it's not coming back for a long, long time.
- And that's why many people won't vote. Defeatism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  
  Ding ding ding.
  These were the same exact people that helped Trump win.
  Democracy is still here, we just have to actually fucking participate in it.
  
  Defeatism was beaten into us by defeat after defeat after blatantly undemocratic defeat.
  And it's just electoral defeatism. You can't beat the master at his own game because he's the one that makes the rules.
  Try a little revolutionary optimism instead.
- We need to stop being afraid of primarying shitty candidates.
  
  We the people aren’t afraid of this, but if the establishment dems catch wind of a primary challenger who’s left of center, they will come down so hard on them with millions in DNC attic ads and literally try to cancel the primary if they have to to keep them out.
- Then why have Congress vote at all? Why didn't Trump just use an EO to put all the provisions he favored in place?
  
  It’s much easier to stifle open revolt with sham elections. Putin has been doing this for decades now in Russia.
...sweet summer child...
MUST PAY A PRICE!! (at the ballot box)
Love you, Bernie, and thanks for being a decent guy, but that’s some GWB-era thinking that’s going to end with your base in camps.
How can we be sure that the winner actually won? I don’t trust us elections anymore.
can we go to the 4th box?
you know the other 3 seems to be broken...
They won't because its a damn uniparty
They need removed from power, and I'd strongly prefer an inquiry be run and everyone who voted to pass it have a lovely time in American Spandau along with ICE.
Poll tax? Republicans love that idea!!!
- You must be this rich to vote:
  
  $100b | | $10b | | $1b | | Minimum $100m |---------- - - - - - - - - - - | | $10m | | | | $1m | | ↓ You are here | |--------- $100k | | | : | | $0 | | |
All Republicans did, lmao. Vote them all out if elections exist next year
Nothing to pay if there is no ballot box in the future.
Second half of that sentence was a letdown
Bernie: vote them out!
Lefties: lol, no.
As should every Democrat.
Give us proper open and honest primaries, bitches. This strong Dem isn’t falling for it any more. Represent the People, not your donors, or lose your jobs. It’s quite simple.
- Right. Let's vote out every Dem who voted for the bill.
  What's that you say?
- Bernie Sanders is Independent.
- ...every bad policy decision has a video of Bernie railing against it 25 years earlier...
  
  except for genocide, thats his one weakness. He says the word makes him queasy so he wont say it and doesnt think Israel is committing one. Otherwise I'm a fan of his work.

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