cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24279636
[opinion piece by Bernie Sanders - goes beyond health care, gives proposals on other issues]
by Bernie Sanders
Tue 31 Dec 2024 14.59 EST
We’re voting for super old people anyways, we should have given Bernie his chance this year. This is a platform that would have won.
Sanders decided to throw his weight behind Biden relection, helping shut down criticism of the choice at a time when it was needed. That was not the right decision - including at the time not just in retrospect.
While I have a lot of respect for him, the party needs a new generation of leaders to step up. He’s 83 - and I don’t mean it’s time for the 65 year olds to step up. Its time the 30 and 40 something year olds step forward.
Sanders did that because he knew there wasn’t going to be a real primary. There never is when there’s a presidential incumbent. And I agree that we need the Millennials now. But we all know a Millennial won’t be given a chance until the last Boomer has had their chance; even if they have terminal throat cancer.
It doesn’t directly involve guillotines, but I feel like they will still be required to implement those proposed changes without opposition
We could probably sell the opportunity to pull the rope.
They’ll only change through force (i.e. threat of losing profits or threat of losing their lives). It doesn’t have to come through vigilante justice but I think we need to make it a lot easier to lock up CEOs. The biggest problem is that CEOs are obligated to maximize shareholder value so they can pretty much always shield themselves with that precedent.
