<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“This election is the most important in the modern history of this country,” said Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders Monday during the Democratic National Convention. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“In response to the unprecedented crises we face, we need an unprecedented response; a movement like never before; a people who are prepared to stand up and fight for Democracy and decency and against greed, oligarchy, and bigotry. And we need Joe Biden as our next president.”</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>It is hard to imagine these words coming from Sanders’s mouth a few months ago. </b></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“Our campaign ended several months ago, but our movement continues and is getting stronger every day,&#8221; continued Sanders. &#8220;Many of the ideas we fought for, that just a few years ago were considered ‘radical,’ are now considered mainstream. But let us be clear, if Donald Trump is re-elected, all the progress we have made will be in jeopardy.”</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Nowhere is Sanders’s progress more apparent than in the 110-page manifesto produced by the Biden-Sanders task force. In addition to free college for families making less $125,000 per year, the expansion of Medicare and Medicaid, the creation of a “public option” to replace private insurance, and the repealing of right-to-work laws, the manifesto includes a massive climate change agenda straight from the mouth of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">With the exception of universal healthcare, the manifesto is virtually indistinguishable from Sanders’s own campaign. <i>It seems this is the price Biden is being forced to pay for a chance to defeat Donald Trump. </i></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“Together, we must build a nation that is more equitable, more compassionate, and more inclusive. I know that Joe Biden will begin that fight on Day 1,” continued Sanders. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">&#8220;Let me offer you just a few examples of how Joe will move us forward: Joe supports raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour…Joe will also make it easier for workers to join unions, create 12 weeks of paid family leave, fund universal pre-K with 3- and 4-year-olds, and make childcare affordable for millions of families. Joe will rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and fight the threat of climate change by transitioning us to 100% clean electricity over the next 15 years. These initiatives will create millions of good-paying jobs all across our country.” </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Author’s Note:</strong> Bernie Sanders may have lost the battle, but he is certainly winning the war. Through a strange confluence of events, we now have an old-school Democrat (Biden) presenting a platform fully inspired by a socialist (Sanders) whose dangerous ideas failed to attract the level of support needed to earn the nomination.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note:</strong> It really is amazing how, over the last 4-5 years, the Democrat Party has completely moved to the left, not realizing that socialism is such a bad strategy that you can&#8217;t even call it economics.<br />
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