{"id":31119,"date":"2016-02-13T15:09:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T19:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31119"},"modified":"2016-02-13T15:10:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T19:10:36","slug":"message-to-sanders-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31119","title":{"rendered":"Message to Sanders Supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><!--more-->Healdsburg, CA<br \/>\nFebruary 13, 2016<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>This article is not that well written but it does makes the point:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/Chris_Ernesto\/2016\/02\/12\/bernie-hysteria-and-liberal-hypocrisy\/\">http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/Chris_Ernesto\/2016\/02\/12\/bernie-hysteria-and-liberal-hypocrisy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unlike Dennis Kucinich in 2004 who was strongly antiwar, Sanders<br \/>\nis timid by comparison with a mixed record as described above.<\/p>\n<p>Those in his camp who want to see him win the nomination need to<br \/>\nencourage him to be more assertive in distinguishing himself from<br \/>\nClinton and the Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>As stated: &#8220;No issue rises above the moral, political and financial<br \/>\nemergency of war and militarism!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That to me says it all and is why I find Sanders deeply flawed. He is<br \/>\nnot an overt hawk like Hillary and most of the Republicans. But he<br \/>\npanders to the Pentagon and refuses to express the degree of outrage<br \/>\nappropriate to the current level of American imperial over-reach.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly upsetting is his willingness to demonize the Russians\u00a0risking further escalation of tensions, a New Cold War and now the\u00a0real prospects of WWIII.<\/p>\n<p>If even someone as hawkish as Donald Trump sees the wisdom of working<br \/>\nwith Putin, why is an alleged dove so blind to the danger?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/trump-tells-the-truth-about-interventionism\/\">http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/trump-tells-the-truth-about-interventionism\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I urge his supporters to insist he recognize the folly of his approach<br \/>\nand make abundantly clear to all his embrace of Peace.<\/p>\n<p>As Margaret Kimberley states: &#8220;How can Bernie Sanders bring social democracy<br \/>\nto the United States if he won&#8217;t cut the military budget or forswear interventions?&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44197.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44197.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Until he and his liberal cohorts answer that key question, there is little hope<br \/>\nfor creating the better world they envision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">References:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44188.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44188.htm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article44188.htm\">http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-international-criminal-court-icc-when-will-western-leaders-be-indicted-for-war-crimes\/5507581<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/Branko_Marcetic\/2016\/02\/12\/democrats-use-debate-to-embrace-historys-warmongers-2\/\">http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/Branko_Marcetic\/2016\/02\/12\/democrats-use-debate-to-embrace-historys-warmongers-2\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31033\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=31033<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}