41 - Bernie and the Troops (w/ Kyle Bibby & Hector Barajas)

Hear the Bern

Bernie 2020

News Commentary, News, , Politics

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🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Pundits were left scratching their heads last fall when Foreign Policy reported that Bernie is the top recipient of donations from the military. But to supporters, it was no surprise: Bernie has a long record of fighting for the rights of US troops to health care, housing, and education - as well as keeping them out of endless, counterproductive wars in the first place. In this week's episode, Briahna sits down with Kyle Bibby, co-founder of the Black Veterans Project and an organizer with progressive vets group Common Defense, to talk about how time spent in military service can bring someone to the left. Then, she talks to Hector Barajas, a veteran who was deported despite his years of service and who founded the Deported Veterans Support House in Tijuana, Mexico. Common Defense: https://commondefense.us Black Veterans Project: https://www.blackveteransproject.org Deported Veterans Support House: https://www.deportedveteranssupporthouse.net

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0:00.0	We sit in the Congress in our beautiful room, beautiful studio over here, and we do not know what
0:06.2	war is about.
0:09.3	I met with the mothers of the young men who lost their lives in that war.
0:16.2	I met with the wives, met with the kids.
0:18.8	I met with the soldiers who came back without arms and legs who are dealing with PTSD today. War is a horror and
0:27.6	it's time politicians understood that we have got to do everything humanly possible
0:32.3	to avoid war.
0:34.0	Is Bernie too radical?
0:36.0	Is Bernie too radical to win the presidency? If you watch cable news at all, you're
0:48.3	surely familiar with that line of questioning. Never mind that Bernie has built his candidacy on big ticket policy
0:55.6	issues that are, according to consistent polling, each hugely popular with American voters.
1:02.0	Even after years of negative advertising, paid for by
1:06.6	insurance and pharmaceutical industries, 87% of Democrats and 63% of all Americans support Medicare for All.
1:16.0	Most Americans also support canceling medical debt,
1:20.0	which is interesting since only Bernie has a plan to do it.
1:24.0	And 73% of Democrats and nearly half of Republicans
1:28.0	support putting workers on corporate boards.
1:32.0	Yet, still, the fear-mongering that asks,
1:36.0	will progressives play in the Midwest
1:38.5	is all too common.
1:40.9	Democratic presidential candidate,
1:42.0	Bernie Sanders says he's a Democratic socialist.
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