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发信人: beijingren3 (), 信区: USANews
标 题: 三德子要和民主党画清界限了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Nov 12 14:42:52 2016, 美东)
Bernie Sanders: Where the Democrats Go From Here
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/opinion/bernie-sanders-where-the-democrats-go-from-here.html?ref=opinion&comments#commentsContainer
Millions of Americans registered a protest vote on Tuesday, expressing their
fierce opposition to an economic and political system that puts wealthy and
corporate interests over their own. I strongly supported Hillary Clinton,
campaigned hard on her behalf, and believed she was the right choice on
Election Day. But Donald J. Trump won the White House because his campaign
rhetoric successfully tapped into a very real and justified anger, an anger
that many traditional Democrats feel.
I am saddened, but not surprised, by the outcome. It is no shock to me that
millions of people who voted for Mr. Trump did so because they are sick and
tired of the economic, political and media status quo.
Working families watch as politicians get campaign financial support from
billionaires and corporate interests — and then ignore the needs of
ordinary Americans. Over the last 30 years, too many Americans were sold out
by their corporate bosses. They work longer hours for lower wages as they
see decent paying jobs go to China, Mexico or some other low-wage country.
They are tired of having chief executives make 300 times what they do, while
52 percent of all new income goes to the top 1 percent. Many of their once
beautiful rural towns have depopulated, their downtown stores are shuttered,
and their kids are leaving home because there are no jobs — all while
corporations suck the wealth out of their communities and stuff them into
offshore accounts.
Working Americans can’t afford decent, quality child care for their
children. They can’t send their kids to college, and they have nothing in
the bank as they head into retirement. In many parts of the country they can
’t find affordable housing, and they find the cost of health insurance much
too high. Too many families exist in despair as drugs, alcohol and suicide
cut life short for a growing number of people.
President-elect Trump is right: The American people want change. But what
kind of change will he be offering them? Will he have the courage to stand
up to the most powerful people in this country who are responsible for the
economic pain that so many working families feel, or will he turn the anger
of the majority against minorities, immigrants, the poor and the helpless?
Will he have the courage to stand up to Wall Street, work to break up the “
too big to fail” financial institutions and demand that big banks invest in
small businesses and create jobs in rural America and inner cities? Or,
will he appoint another Wall Street banker to run the Treasury Department
and continue business as usual? Will he, as he promised during the campaign,
really take on the pharmaceutical industry and lower the price of
prescription drugs?
I am deeply distressed to hear stories of Americans being intimidated and
harassed in the wake of Mr. Trump’s victory, and I hear the cries of
families who are living in fear of being torn apart. We have come too far as
a country in combating discrimination. We are not going back. Rest assured,
there is no compromise on racism, bigotry, xenophobia and sexism. We will
fight it in all its forms, whenever and wherever it re-emerges.
I will keep an open mind to see what ideas Mr. Trump offers and when and how
we can work together. Having lost the nationwide popular vote, however, he
would do well to heed the views of progressives. If the president-elect is
serious about pursuing policies that improve the lives of working families,
I’m going to present some very real opportunities for him to earn my
support.
Let’s rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and create millions of well-
paying jobs. Let’s raise the minimum wage to a living wage, help students
afford to go to college, provide paid family and medical leave and expand
Social Security. Let’s reform an economic system that enables billionaires
like Mr. Trump not to pay a nickel in federal income taxes. And most
important, let’s end the ability of wealthy campaign contributors to buy
elections.
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In the coming days, I will also provide a series of reforms to reinvigorate
the Democratic Party. I believe strongly that the party must break loose
from its corporate establishment ties and, once again, become a grass-roots
party of working people, the elderly and the poor. We must open the doors of
the party to welcome in the idealism and energy of young people and all
Americans who are fighting for economic, social, racial and environmental
justice. We must have the courage to take on the greed and power of Wall
Street, the drug companies, the insurance companies and the fossil fuel
industry.
When my presidential campaign came to an end, I pledged to my supporters
that the political revolution would continue. And now, more than ever, that
must happen. We are the wealthiest nation in the history of the world. When
we stand together and don’t let demagogues divide us up by race, gender or
national origin, there is nothing we cannot accomplish. We must go forward,
not backward. |
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