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Bernie Sanders

Thursday 5th of March 2026

2008 financial crisis Trump's rise, like Warren's and Sander's, wouldn't have happened without the 2008 financial crisis. They were all part of the political backlash that followed the crisis-like aftershocks from an earthquake. One thing Trump's victory made clear was that the Obama's administration's response was more costly than initially assumed. The decision to forgo what Tim Geithner called “Old Testament justice" and concentrate the government's firepower on recapitalizing disgraced banks might have kept the economy afloat, but it also bred a deep resentment. Trump won because he consciously evoked the disgust people had come to feel toward Wall Street and Washington and made himself into an instrument to strike back. Joshua Green, in Rebels © 2024 Kwiple.com
2016 Presidential election The real issue is that, in area after area, raising the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour, the American people want it. Rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, creating 13 million jobs, the American people want it. The pay equity for women, the American people want it. Demanding that the wealthy start paying their fair share of taxes, the American people want it. Bernie Sanders, Democratic debate, Charleston, SC, Jan. 17, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Democrats In targeting just the richest [1% for tax increases], Democrats rather imply that a welfare state is only worthwhile insofar as someone else pays for it. It is not an inherent good. It is not a nation's binding agent. In this sense, the Sanders and especially the Warren platform is a tacit concession to the Republican view of the world, with tax as a burden, not what the jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes defined as “what we pay for civilised society.” The Democratic appeal is less to Nordic universalism and solidarity than to the noblesse oblige of a remote overclass who will not miss the money. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, Feb. 26, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Impeachment But if – and this is an if – if for the next year, year-and-a-half, going right into the heart of the election, all that the Congress is talking about is impeaching Trump and Trump, Trump, Trump, and Mueller, Mueller, Mueller, and we're not talking about health care, we're not talking about raising the minimum wage to a living wage, we're not taling about combatting climate change, we're not talking about sexism and racism and homo- phobia, and all the issues that concern ordinary Americans, what I worry about is that works to Trump's advantage. Bernie Sanders, CNN Town Hall Manchester, New Hampshire, April 22, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Republicans say (((Bernie Sanders))) © 2016 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Despair is absolutely not an option. Bernie Sanders © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie I'm a grumpy old guy. People don't need to know what I buy in the grocery store or what the name of my dog is – I don't own a dog, by the way – but they do need to know why billionaires are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Bernie Sanders © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Crazy Bernie Bernie Sanders portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say xx Keep in mind where the coronavirus came from. It came from a country that Bernie Sanders wants to turn the United States into a mirror image of: Communist China. Rush Limbaugh © 2020 Kwiple.com
Voting rights [T]he right to vote is inherent to our democracy. Yes, even for terrible people, because once you start chipping away and say, well, that guy committed a terrible crime – not going to let him vote – or that person did that – not going to let that person vote – you're running down a slippery slope. So I believe that people commit crimes, they pay the price. When they get out of jail, they certainly should have the right to vote. But I do believe even if they are in jail, they are paying their price to society, but that should not take away their inherent American right to participate in our democracy. Bernie Sanders © 2019 Kwiple.com
 
Wealth inequality Between 2013 and 2015, the wealthiest 14 people saw their wealth increase by $157 billion. This is their wealth increase, got it? Not what they are worth. Increase. That $157 billion is more wealth than is owned by the bottom 40 percent of the American people. One family, the Walton family, owns more wealth than the bottom 40 percent. Bernie Sanders © 2015 Kwiple.com