{"id":6767,"date":"2017-11-11T11:50:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T19:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=6767"},"modified":"2017-11-11T11:50:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T19:50:58","slug":"bernie-sanders-explains-plan-fix-broken-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/11\/11\/bernie-sanders-explains-plan-fix-broken-democratic-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Explains His Plan to Fix a Broken Democratic Party"},"content":{"rendered":"
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November 10, 2017\u00a0<\/span><\/span>by Common Dreams<\/a><\/div>\n
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“At a time when we have a Republican president and Republican Party whose leadership and agenda are strongly opposed by the American people, now is the time for real change.”<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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by\u00a0Jake Johnson, staff writer<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It is “not acceptable” that “hundreds of millions of dollars flow in and out of the DNC with little to no accountability,” Sanders concluded. (Photo:\u00a0Gage Skidmore<\/a>\/Flickr\/cc)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Following a\u00a0massive wave<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0progressive victories<\/a>\u00a0in elections throughout the U.S. earlier this week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) argued in a\u00a0Politico<\/em>\u00a0op-ed<\/a>\u00a0on Friday that the Democratic Party must embrace “fundamental reforms” and “welcome into its ranks millions of working people and young people” if it is to build on this grassroots momentum and overcome the “unprecedented crisis” posed by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

“Do you believe in open primaries, or do you not? Do you believe in transparency or not? Do you believe in keeping 700-plus superdelegates or not? Do you believe in letting people vote in caucuses who currently cannot?”
\n\u2014Sen. Bernie Sanders<\/span>Sanders’ plea for systemic change within the party that has been\u00a0decimated at nearly every level of government<\/a>\u00a0over the past eight years comes just ahead of the final meeting of the DNC’s “Unity Reform Commission,” a group formed in the aftermath of the 2016 Democratic primary with the\u00a0stated goal<\/a>\u00a0of “ensur[ing] that inclusivity is upheld in all things that we do.”<\/p>\n

Some of the reforms Sanders says the commission “desperately” needs to consider during its December meeting if it is to have any hope of defeating Trump’s “agenda of the billionaire class” include:<\/p>\n