depois de bernie sanders ganhar de forma esmagadora a clinton nas primárias de new hampshire, a política e a própria campanha nos eua ganhou novos temas de discussão. como realça heiko khoo, no seu artigo que marsuilta deixa de seguida, sanders veio trazer à campanha temas como os direitos dos trabalhadores, a luta pelas liberdades civis, a liberação sexual, os direitos de bem-estar, a oposição à guerras imperialistas e acima de tudo o ataque feroz a wall street. a ameaça de sanders como possível eleito candidato dos democratas contra todas as expectativas é uma séria ameaça que neste sábado levou um revés e um atenuar do seu impulso com o triunfo de hillary clinton em nevada caucuses. aqui clinton venceu com mais de 52 por cento dos votos, enquanto sanders alcançou um pouco mais de 47 por cento. clinton teve que mudar um pouco o seu discurso imitando um pouco sanders na utilização dos pronomes "nós" e "vós". logo após o seu discurso de vitória clinton disse que a "luta continua" numa alusão ao seu próximo combate, em houston, onde faria um comício.
ler artigo de Heiko Khoo,a 12.02.2016 2016, http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2016-02/12/content_37774623.htm
Bernie Sanders'
crushing victory over Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary turns U.S.
politics upside down. Sanders, a rank outsider at the start of the
leadership campaign, is fomenting a “political revolution.” He wants to
change the country's political culture, economy and institutions, and make them
serve the people. Perhaps, Sanders will be elected as presidential candidate
for the Democrats against all expectations. This is a real possibility
because of the militancy and determination of his mass support base.
Sanders
only joined the Democratic Party in 2015, after serving as an independent in
Congress since 1990 and in the Senate since 2006. He champions “socialist” causes: workers'
rights, the struggle for civil liberties, sexual liberation, welfare rights,
opposition to imperialist wars; and above all he ferociously attacks Wall
Street and the “billionaire class”–whom he tells – "you cannot have it
all." Millions of supporters have given small donations – people who
believe he defends the interests of the majority – the middle and working
class.
Sanders is
a fighter. His words boom as his fists punch the air. His arms express the
people's anger at the betrayal of American hopes and dreams. He
castigates the fraud of Wall Street, demanding that the most powerful banks be
broken-up, and that the corrupt campaign financing system be ended. He
champions the plight of the homeless, people evicted after wage cuts and job
losses threw millions of Americans into poverty. He supports universal
healthcare, and explains that the USA spends more on health per capita than any
other advanced economy– yet millions have no health insurance. He advocates
free college education and a program of public works and infrastructure
investment to create 13 million new jobs.
The
machinery of the Democratic Party is behind frontrunner Hillary Clinton. But Sanders has tapped into a deep
grain of unarticulated social opinion, which reflects the simple fact that U.S.
society is a class society – organized to exploit the workers. The USA,
with its commonly held ideology – that individual freedom is best protected by
a culture of universal entrepreneurship – is a society at war with itself.
The Great Recession in 2008-9 not only wreaked havoc on the lives of
millions of people; it also cleared the dust from the eyes of tens of millions
who lost faith in U.S. capitalism.
However,
Sanders’ vision of socialism is a social-democratic one. He seeks reform towards a
Nordic model of social welfare. Nevertheless, to bring this into being
would entail a huge battle to counter and defeat the opposition of business and
other interests that feel threatened.
Sanders
often addresses his remarks to the middle class by which he means workers on
reasonable incomes. Indeed, the majority of Americans are proud that they work
hard and strive to advance in society. They tend to identify themselves as
middle class but in recent years millions have been impoverished.
It might
appear strange that Sanders is said to be trailing Clinton within black
communities. After all they tend to be poor, discriminated against, and
militant in defence of their rights, and Sanders champions their causes. But he
predicts that as the campaign heats up everyone will begin to follow the
debates more closely; and the majority will naturally side with his crusade
against corruption and his message of socialist change.
There is
still a long way to go in the campaign but the New Hampshire victory provides
powerful momentum to Bernie Sanders' campaign. He has changed the entire focus
and character of the debate in U.S. politics. Socialism is back big time.
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