Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Tag: bernie sanders

  • Generational change

    This paragraph in a eulogy for Jim Anderton on Newsroom, got me thinking about generational change in politics: Trapped in near-perpetual opposition since the first Labour Government of 1935-49, with…

  • QOTD: Young socialist voters

    Malcolm Harris at Pacific Standard explains why young people have started voting for socialists – and why we shouldn’t confuse it for the reactionary anger of older voters. Young people in the U.S. and…

  • Why would progressives vote for Trump?

    [A note in hindsight: this post was published in April 2016, a good amount of time before it became crystal clear that Trump is a goddamned Nazi-enabling rule-of-law-trashing fascist. And…

  • Nobody is entitled to votes

    I caught the tail-end of a conversation on Twitter yesterday about the presidential primaries in the US, and the mathematical impossibility of Bernie Sanders winning the Democratic nomination. The case…

  • Quote of the day: Bernie Sanders and a theory of change

    From Jedediah Purdy’s response to a critique of Sanders at Huffington Post: Krugman’s mistake is very basic. He’s wrong about the Sanders campaign’s theory of change. It isn’t that a…