{"id":11797,"date":"2016-08-09T17:23:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T00:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11797"},"modified":"2016-08-09T17:22:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T00:22:24","slug":"berning-bridges-toward-political-revolution-bradcast-892016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11797","title":{"rendered":"Berning Bridges Toward &#8216;Political Revolution&#8217;: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 8\/9\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_Trump_Clinton_Johnson_Stein_080916.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">The primaries are over, the nominees are set, so what are the best options remaining for dyed-in-the-wool Bernie Sanders fans this November 8th?<\/p>\n<p>On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, attorney, veteran and longtime legal analyst <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?author=107\">at The BRAD BLOG<\/a>, <b>Ernest A. Canning<\/b>, who serves as a senior advisor to <a href=\"http:\/\/VetsForBernie.org\">VetsForBernie.org<\/a>, joins us to discuss his new article, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11779\">&#8220;Revolution at a Crossroad&#8221;<\/a>. [<i>Audio link to show posted below.<\/i>]\n<p>Canning walks through the pros and cons of the various possibilities (staying home, voting for the Libertarian or Green Party candidate, voting for Hillary Clinton, as Sanders suggests, or even, gasp, voting for Donald Trump) as now faced by hard-core Sanders supporters, before offering his recommendation for how best to vote in order to continue the Sanders-led &#8220;political revolution&#8221;. (Ernie also responds to a number of reader comments from the lively debate in response to his article.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the critical issue, and I think the question that every thinking progressive has to ask themselves is: &#8216;What is the most effective means for moving the goals of the democratic revolution forward?&#8217;,&#8221; he explains while we work through the potential options and outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Also today, the fight to restore the Voting Rights Act continues. Voting rights advocates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/counties\/wake-county\/article94479222.html\">on the ground<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/nc-democracy.org\/democracy-nc-responds-to-adoption-of-guilford-county-early-voting-plan\/\">in North Carolina<\/a> and elsewhere are working hard to assure access to the polls for all this year, on the heels of a number of recent, <i>very<\/i> encouraging state and federal court victories. And national leaders are, once again, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/aug\/08\/voting-rights-act-sit-in-bob-goodlatte-naacp-president\">pressing<\/a> Republicans in Congress to simply allow hearings to discuss ways to try and fix the landmark 1965 legislation after it was gutted by a rightwing majority on the U.S. Supreme Court in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we wrap up today&#8217;s show with a few thoughts from liberal author and intellectual Noam Chomsky, on the threat posed by Donald Trump to the globe and, indeed, life on earth&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_ErnieCanningAfterSanders_VotingRights_080916.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_ErnieCanningAfterSanders_VotingRights_080916.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stitcher.com\/s\/player.php?fid=25838&#038;src=psl\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The primaries are over, the nominees are set, so what are the best options remaining for dyed-in-the-wool Bernie Sanders fans this November 8th? 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