Sanders is proof the US is working on a rigged system
he has had the people's interest at heart since he first started his political career in the 60s and not just the US citizens
He will inspire a group of young people that will actually make the change when boomers die. So there's that.
The two party thing has been going for 150 years. The top will not ever allow change in the regime.
Sanders almost won in 2016 but the DNC actively conspired against him to run Hillary. The Democrats will rather lose than allow the system to change.
You, in another comment chain, are advocating for voting third party and advocating against grassroots change like Unionization and winning local elections. If you realize the top will never ever allow change in the regime, then why are you advocating against bottom-up pressure, and advocating for knowingly spoiling your vote?
Not the one concerned, but the two party system used to include the wigs. One party can get dismantled and I think it would only happen with bottom up pressure, and grass roots.
Yep, that's my point entirely. With the current two party system, voting third party is purely a spoiler vote without mass grassroots pressure like Unionization and winning local elections. They've argued against building up that bottom-up pressure as pointless, and instead advocated for voting third party, getting the order entirely wrong.
With the current dem/rep split, voting Democrat is what leftists should do purely as loss prevention. It's only with genuine outside, bottom-up pressure that third party could ever be viable.
The Democrats will rather lose than allow the system to change.
Prescient. I don’t think many centrist have realized that yet.
Anyone got a list of who supported it?
Edit: so far I found that it was Sanders (duh), Rand Paul, and 9 democrats. Not sure who
Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky
Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico
Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont
Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland
Democratic Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts
Democratic Sen. Laphonza Butler of California
Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico
Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii
Democratic Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
Anyone got a list of who abstained? I want to do the math so I know how large the Senate Genocide Caucus is.
EDIT: I was trying to do math and kept overlooking how the article said that it was 72-11, which would mean 17 abstaining or absent. The Senate Genocide Caucus is 72 members wide.
Rand Paul accidentally stumbles into the correct opinion.
Voting List for Anyone Interested
Fuck everyone that continues to support this genocide.
Important to note that this is a motion to table - so the "Yea" vote means they disagree with Bernie's resolution.
39 Democrat senators (40 if you count Sinema) and 32 Republican senators.
I'd also like to remind people that 44 Democrats and 36 Republican senators voted to block the rail strike.
Procorporate trash. All of them. Fuck Joe Biden.
Bernie Sanders is obviously a raging anti-Semite.
The ADL just declared that Jewish Voice for Peace are antisemitic so Bernie probably isn't far behind.
The measure was a first-of-its-kind tapping into a decades-old law that would require the US state department to, within 30 days, produce a report on whether the Israeli war effort in Gaza is violating human rights and international accords. If the administration failed to do so, US military aid to Israel, long assured without question, could be quickly halted.
Those senators must be pretty confident that a report would find human rights violations. Why would they oppose it otherwise?
if only democrats actually stood for what they say they stand for
we could of had eight years of bernie instead of eight years of further decline with trump and biden
if you think israel didn't do anything wrong, why oppose an investigation?
(also milosevic did the same thing in the 90s and was prosecuted for it by the icc - the us supported that then)
Sigh, the US government never fails to disappoint.
During the Sheikh Jarrah incident I contacted everyone who politically represents me and told them to re-evaluate how freely they fund Isreal, they all gave me lots of lip service telling me they will consider it when opportunities arise and every last one of them voted against this. I don't think I've ever in my life been accurately represented politically on a federal level, and the only reason that's not true locally is because I've testified to local government committees on things that actually made it to the state house floor.
Doesn’t look like there are many scruples left in DC.
There weren't any in the first place.
This is the stupidest timeline.
I'm supposed to believe the Dems that voted against this also care about saving democracy? They don't even care about basic human rights. We're going full speed into the worst timeline.
Why?
The republicans voted against it because it's from him, and the democrats voted against it because they're courting the right.
as is tradit
Warren also voted with Sanders.
Well, at least it was the right method. They didn't hide behind Biden.
It sometimes feels like Bernie Sanders is the only American leader with an actual heart.
I knew he was "my guy" when I finally realized who he was in 2016. There was a time I watched a lot of documentaries, and every time this scraggly haired old dude was shown in some random clip of Congress doing their thing in relation to the documentary, he was always on the right side of the argument. So I see Bernie Sanders running and I said "oh shit, it's that guy!"
No wonder the media demonizes him...
Proud of my Senator, Martin Heinrich. He did the right thing today.
Now there's two fascist parties...
Isnt that a proof that Israel dont respect human rights?
It is more proof that the US doesn't give a shit.
It's more proof that the US does give a shit, and that the US prefers that human rights not be respected.
Is this an active coup that’s been playing out since 60s or when ever this shadowy government does? Is this the same thing like how one president get 1 free murder, no questions asked but like on large scales?
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