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Showing Original Post only (View all)Bernie Sanders Lost Illinois, but He Changed Chicago [View all]
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In fact, some of Sanderss campaign promises have already come true in Chicago. Marijuana is legal as of January 1, and the minimum wage will rise to $15 an hour next year.
The fact that Sanders commands so much support among young people he won a majority of voters under 45 in the Illinois primary means his ideals will become laws when todays Sanders voters win tomorrows election. Ironically, Sanders has been compared to former Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, who was as far to the right as Sanders is to the left. Goldwaters landslide loss to Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 presidential election was nonetheless the beginning of a conservative ideological movement that finally came to power when Ronald Reagan won the White House 16 years later.
The Sanders coalition is in a very real sense the future of the Democratic Party, wrote Noah Millman in The Week. And thats a reason to take notice of his primarily class-based politics, because they have shown far better ability to energize the demographic future than any of his opponents.
Even as hes losing, Sanders is winning not in Washington, but in Chicago, and plenty of other blue cities.
http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/March-2020/Bernie-Sanders-Lost-Illinois-but-He-Changed-Chicago/
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Sanders has done more to prevent minimum wage increases than he has to enact them.
W_HAMILTON
Mar 2020
#8
Funny, people are claiming he's changing Chicago, but when it's pointed out....
George II
Mar 2020
#12
Legal weed and higher minimum wage basically every schoolkid's dream since forever.
Scurrilous
Mar 2020
#42
Treacly Matt Taibbi comes to mind. It's a disgrace he has the job that Hunter S. Thompson once held.
Scurrilous
Mar 2020
#44
Yep. They have inherited a mess and are determined to change the power structure despite
BeckyDem
Mar 2020
#14