![]() ![]() ![]() One of Dodd-Frank’s authors, Barney Frank, recently sat down with Slate to toss some of that criticism back in Bernie’s direction. People don’t respect victims.Bernie Sanders’ criticisms of the American financial system have extended all the way to a law he voted for while in Congress: the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. During the Eighties, we were constantly portrayed as victims. I’m unwilling to have anyone think I’m afraid of him. What compels you to go on a show like Bill O’Reilly’s when you know he’s just going to scream at you? His method was, “I’m gonna say what’s right, and say it and say it until people accept it.” That’s a more appealing posture if you don’t have anything seriously at stake. He sold a bunch of people on the view that things were bad because people in office hadn’t been trying.Īfrican-Americans, Hispanics, LGBT people, people who had a serious grievance tended to not be for him because they were concerned with how he’ll get things done. Secondly, and some of them get mad when I say this, because of their not knowing much. One, because there is a sort of natural rebelliousness of youth and he was critical of the existing system. Why do you think Bernie Sanders appealed to so many young people? People don’t hit other people in the head because they’re on heroin they hit other people in the head because they need to get money to buy heroin. We should outlaw a drug if it is likely to make you mistreat others. Should hardcore drugs like heroin and crystal meth be legal? And there’s tens of billions to be saved by us legalizing all forms of drugs. We also have to provide a better economic situation for people who don’t make it as well in our current economy. That would reduce the military budget by well over $100 billion a year. We have got to repudiate this Cheney-McCain notion that it’s America’s mission to govern the world. What’s the next frontier in progressivism? My favorite is Fiorello! It’s very funny, with clever lyrics. It was a two-sided single with “Shake, Rattle and Roll.” I never turn music on now – although I happen to like some musicals, which is maybe my one gay stereotype. “Rock Around the Clock,” by Bill Haley and His Comets. You wrote in your memoir that in 1954 you loved loud music. It was not racially various, but ethnically, religiously, socioeconomically it was very much integrated, and that was helpful. Growing up, I worked at my father’s truck stop, and I was around a wide range of people. My voice is very distinctive, and I think that has been very helpful to me. You get a warm feeling, but nobody notices.” He said, “These people are like pissing down your leg in a dark suit. There’s a great quote from Lyndon Johnson about a group of people he thought were all talk and no action. The more committed you are to your ideals, the more obligated you are to be pragmatic about implementing them. Things went bad for him when he took the vice presidency, but in the Fifties and Sixties he was an extraordinarily important force for getting liberal ideas implemented. He was the model of the pragmatic zealot. ![]() He organized the “Dump Johnson” movement in ’67 when a lot of people, myself included, told him it wasn’t going to work. You have to send me money to defend myself.” Also, when you’re in office and people say bad things about you, you can raise money off it: “Look what they’re saying about me. He said, “Just remember, at any given moment you are much more focused on you than almost anybody else is.” So don’t overreact to criticism in or out of the press. It was from the attorney general of Massachusetts, Francis X. What’s the best advice you ever received? ![]()
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