Go knock on some doors; Bernie Sanders sounds off.

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Leader of the Progressive Caucus in the House of Representatives - Interview

Bernie Sanders, the only independent socialist in Congress, believes that progressives must begin a dialogue with the working class about the economic and political crisis in the US. He thinks that a third-party movement is the best means for promoting a progressive agenda.

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Go knock on some doors; Bernie Sanders sounds off.

Bernie Sanders thinks the American left should put down the cappuccino and start going door-to-door explaining that class is the issue and that socialism really can work in America.

"It is good to sit in the coffee shops among all the radicals and talk about all the things that we should do," says Sanders, the former mayor of Burlington, Vermont, who this fall will seek his fourth term as the only independent socialist in the U.S. House. "But then we want to leave the coffee shop, we want to go to the working-class community, and then we want to knock on those doors and talk to those folks, and get their support for a political movement. I'm much more interested in that aspect than the coffee-shop talk."

In the face of the most rightwing Republican Congress since the 1940s, a Democratic Party that has embraced Wall Street, and a rising tide of voter disenchantment that as often as not expresses itself in votes for billionaire "populists" and rightwing commentators turned "tribunes of the working class," Sanders says that progressives can ...

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