Bernie Sanders delivered a message to the media and
those who are doubting the validity of his presidential campaign.
Sanders said that he wasn’t running a protest campaign or an educational
campaign. Sen. Sanders stressed that he is running to win.
At The Christian Science Monitor breakfast,
Sanders said, “This is not an educational campaign. This is not a protest campaign. This is a campaign to win.”
Democratic voters are being given a real treat. As
Sen. Sanders is gaining momentum, former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton
is gearing up for a major speech at a rally in New York City where she
will tell the American people how she plans to fight for the
middle-class. While Republicans are wasting their days complaining about
debate formats and trying to gain the slightest bit of public attention
in an overly crowded field of candidates, Democrats have two candidates
who are running campaigns based on the middle-class and the concerns of
ordinary Americans.
At the same gathering today, Sen. Sanders moved the debate more to the left by admitting that he would
raise taxes in order to pay for universal health care,
“Yes, of course taxes would go up to pay for health care. But you know
what would go down? Private insurance. You would not be paying private
insurance. So if I said to you, ‘Well, you’re not going to pay Blue
Cross $12,000 a year but you’re going to pay $10,000 more in taxes, are
you going to be crying? No.”
The support for Bernie Sanders is very real. The
media has been dismissive of Sanders because he isn’t as popular as
Hillary Clinton. No Republican is as popular as former Sec. of State
Clinton either, but no one in the media claims that Ted Cruz, Rand Paul,
Scott Walker, and Jeb Bush aren’t legitimate candidates.
The media is ignoring the fact that Hillary Clinton
lost the Democratic nomination to once in a generation political talent.
President Obama is one of the great campaigners of the modern political
era, and the 2008 Democratic primary was a dogfight between Obama and
Clinton.
Those who ignore the candidacy of Bernie Sanders are
neglecting a fundamental leftward shift in American politics. It isn’t
the personality of Sanders that is causing his campaign to grow. It’s
the message. It is expected that Hillary Clinton will offer up her own
liberal vision for the future on Saturday.
Bernie
Sanders is here to win, but by making the question about the legitimacy
of his candidacy, the media is setting themselves up to ignore a
leftward shift in American politics that is shaping up to be a powerful
undercurrent of the 2016 election.
