How to Fix the Democratic Party
Transcripts courtesy of elenacarlena, emphasis added:
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Crowd: Bernie! Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!
Bernie: I love Nina, but it's always hard to follow Nina. Let me thank Progressive Change for helping to organize this enormously important event.... What you are here today for, what you are doing is making a political revolution. When some of us got involved in the presidential campaign, we had two goals.... First of all, to demand that we see public policy in this country start working for ordinary Americans and not just the 1%.... So we started the campaign by developing a progressive agenda which said that we are going to deal with the disgrace of having more income and wealth inequality in this country than any major country on Earth.... People weren't talking about the fact that today we have 3 people who own more wealth than the bottom half of the American people.... Media was not talking about the fact that the United States was and is the only major country not to guarantee health care to all people as a right.... Because of your work and Nina's work and all of our work, last poll that I saw, 59% of the American people believe in Medicare for all.... What was once considered radical is now mainstream.... When we ran for office, we picked up what our friends in the Fight for 15 movement were talking about... if you work 40 hours a week in the United States, you should not be living in poverty, raise the minimum wage to a living wage, $15 an hour.... all across the country, communities, cities and states are passing $15 an hour minimum wage legislation.…
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Still Bernie: Now what the establishment and the big money interests try to do are two things. Number 1, obviously they want to push their agenda of tax breaks for billionaires and cuts to the programs that working people need.... But number 2, the more subtle and destructive role that they and the media play is to tell the American people that politics is too complicated, you can't get involved, you don't know enough to run for office.... Anybody can run for any office.... Take a look at the president of the United States and be reassured that you know far more than he will know on his best day. But here is the point... the world is very complicated and nobody knows it all and we all have to study hard.... But if your heart is in the right place, if you believe in love and compassion, if you understand that the function of elected officials is to bring us together, not divide us up, if you believe in economic and social and racial and environmental justice, run for office. Now my Republican colleagues, their idea of a good election is when... big money dominates the process.... What they want is a dispirited, discouraged population, which says I don't want to vote, it's all crap, I'm not going to get involved... Our job is exactly the opposite, our job is to grow the voter turnout, our job is to take big money out of the campaign process by overturning this disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision.... Watch out for consultants! There is an entire large group of people located right here who make zillions of dollars by consulting, and often their advice is conservative and wrong. Trust your own guts, trust your own instincts, trust your heart.... I am not going to suggest that money is not important, but at the end of the day, face to face contact, bringing your friends and your fellow progressives out knocking on doors is ultimately more important than anything else. Do not spend... your entire lives raising money. Go on out and tell people what you believe.... In 2014... we had the lowest voter turnout since World War II and that was because soldiers were abroad.... If we can raise that voter turnout... if we can go out and register millions of... people who have given up on the political process, if you can give those people hope and an agenda that makes sense to them, if you can involve them in the political process... virtually every single one of you will win your elections.... In this moment in American history, our job together is to stand up, it is to fight back, it is to bring our brothers and our sisters and our neighbors and our coworkers into the political process, it is to think big, not small, it is to transform America.
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