Dear CCI Followers,
What is happening to our Democrat party regarding its shift toward demonizing Russia and China, as well as signing off on huge expenditures for the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex? What happened to Bernie’s intention toward Diplomacy and creating a world that works for all countries? Where is the evidence that we need huge defense budgets to protect ourselves from whom?
It is past time to ask the hard questions. Why is this happening? What’s behind it? We need some answers. Check out James Cardin’s piece posted in the past week.
Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives
Is Biden Trying To ‘Out-Hawk’ Trump On Foreign Policy?
His is surrounding himself with Democratic establishment types, not progressive restrainers.
June 30, 2020
By James Carden
In the time since Joe Biden became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, supporters of Bernie Sanders have been busy arguing that while their candidate lost, his ideas carried the day. Jamaal Bowman’s decisive defeat of the indiscriminately hawkish New York congressman Eliot Engel, welcome though it is, has only further convinced them that the Democratic establishment is on its back foot.
These days, progressives are, to borrow a line, assured of certain certainties, and principal among these is that Bernie won the so-called “ideas primary.”
Current Affairs editor Nathaniel Robinson writes that “despite people portraying Sanders’ loss as evidence of the left’s failure, it does still actually show that we are ascendant compared to where we used to be.”