Climate Activist Josh Fox in Rolling Stone: Bernie is already President of the Progressive Movement

For filmmaker and climate activist Josh Fox, supporting Bernie was an easy choice. In an article in yesterday’s Rolling Stone, Fox explains:

And Sanders is the first major presidential candidate to come out against fracking, right?  

Hallelujah! It's a big deal. I mean, Hillary Clinton, when she got up and talked about fracking at the first debate, it was a bunch of gobbledygook that came out of her mouth, and those are the moral somersaults that you're doing when you're trying to justify any fracking at all. She's proposing this "natural gas bridge to the future," which is of course the same thing that Obama is doing.

What do you like better about Sanders' position?   

Bernie is saying, "We have to go to 100 percent renewable energy, and we have to do it as fast as possible." That's not an easy thing. But then again, neither is encountering the reality of where we're at with climate change. Bernie has correctly come out and identified this as the number-one security threat to the United States. And he invoked FDR, who overhauled the entire American economy to defeat fascism in Europe, and that is the correct mindset. We need that kind of FDR-like mobilization on renewable and on climate. Read more: www.rollingstone.com/...   

Fox has been campaigning for Bernie and has no plans to resign himself to incrementalism. And like millions of Bernie supporters, Fox believes Bernie has already won:

Bernie Sanders campaign is made of these movements that are already incredibly strong: the climate movement, the anti-fracking movement, Black Lives Matter, Occupy, all coming together under the big tent of the Sanders campaign. And he's been saying these things for 30 years. It's not like he came out of nowhere. But for a lot of people, it's like discovering buried treasure all of a sudden. So that's not going anywhere no matter what, because it was all already there. It's just getting stronger. And I think the more ridiculous and absurd these contests become, the stronger the movement gets. People see that Democratic incrementalism, plus Republican obstructionism, has failed to protect us. It has failed  to protect us from climate change, from the big banks, from big corporations. Bernie is offering solutions. But if they don't let him in, by excluding these movements, these movements will continue to participate. I think the real power in this country is with the movements. Real power in America isn't in the White House. Real power is in the streets. And Sanders is already the president of this progressive movement.  Read more: www.rollingstone.com/...   

While Bernie is down in the delegate count and will undoubtedly take a hit next week in some states, he will continue the race showing polling gains in states yet to vote, including California, where the race is essentially neck to neck! 

Like Josh Fox, millions of other Bernie supporters will not lose sight of the big picture:

It's about a set of principles: courage, human rights, democracy, innovation, creativity, resilience, love. These are the things that we're going to need to guide us through that climate catastrophe. We're going to need those values if we're going to win anything at all. But we're going to need them even more if we start to really lose.

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Progressive politics is alive and well in America. It's there…if you go out, you'll discover it. There's rallies in the day and there's rallies at night. And there's joy. There's incredible joy in it. I watched last night people dancing in the streets to Prince.

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