There are pragmatic Democrats saying this, including Jesse Jackson. Even Rep. James Clyburn is calling for Joe to "incorporate as much of the efforts being proposed by Bernie Sanders as he can."
And Biden voters know it's true... exit polls consistently show voters prefer Bernie's policies even as they vote for Biden.
Is it really a question that we desperately need the Green New Deal now, with so many traditional businesses unlikely to continue?
Biden may be cruising to the nomination, but especially as primaries like those in GA and OH are delayed, isn't this the time to tell the candidate with one voice the age of corporate exploitation of workers must end? People stuck home for weeks could take a minute to reach out to Biden and the DNC that what's best for voters is best for winning the election.
Biden presents himself like a big-hearted, compassionate grandpa with the ability to listen. For the younger and older factions of the party to genuinely come together and shift away from DC politics fueled by payola, Joe's got to make a move to show he can in fact listen.
But the DNC isn't listening. They just offered both Joe and Bernie "joint campaign funds", controversial for their ability to launder billionaire contributions.
Through a loophole legal experts call a "grey area", the Hillary Victory Fund had ultra-rich donors who already maxed out $2,700 to her campaign then give $10,000, the maximum legal limit, to the Maine Democratic Committee, the Alaska Democratic Committee, the Montana Democratic Committee and so on until all 33 states participating in the "joint" Victory Fund had collected up to $330,000 from rich donors like Eli Broad, Laurene Powell Jobs or George Clooney.
Then, they doubled the contributions by doing the same thing again through their wives or children's names, making it $660,000. And they could do this for two years, both 2015 and 2016, doubling it again to $1.32 million - from a single household. After this, the state committees just transfer the millions to Hillary's campaign, making the idea of contribution limits little more than an inconvenience.
Apparently legal, this is clearly a way for Democratic lobbyists and middlemen called "bundlers" to help hedge funders, tech giants and business moguls maintain strong influence over our political system. Many 2016 donors participated in billionaire roundtables conveying their policy asks to Hillary's campaign staff as they made their payment arrangements.
Bernie tried to blow the whistle in 2016 that these "joint" funds were helping billionaires skirt funding laws as the DNC spending was commandeered by Hillary's campaign, but it fell on deaf ears in the corporate media.
This year, Bernie again declined the offer, which will prevent Biden from having such a fund, showing yet another way the Sanders campaign has fought for democracy and self-determination as we face a future that truly will not look like the past.
The renowned economist Thomas Piketty posted an analysis showing working-class Americans continually vote against their own economic interests if they even vote at all but Democrats made a critical mistake letting Trump and the Republicans capitalize on the obvious dissatisfaction with the rigged economic system.
So as we all have a "pause" imposed on our lives, it's high time to reflect on the disparity and inequity of the rat race, and ask whether we have any say, any agency in our governance or society.
It's time to send a message to the Biden campaign. The ball is in his court, but he needs to hear it from everyone in the Democratic party if he is going to be the guy, he's got to become a champion of US workers in more than words.
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