Why "more of the same" is a recipe for disaster (IMO, of course)

I think we've been steadily brainwashed since the 1970's. The economy went sour, and the Corporations and Wall St. Elites began a successful con job to take advantage of people's fear and discomfort. "Give us Corporations and Wealthy investors what we want, and let us steer the ship, and you will automatically benefit too."

And we the people bought into it. We bought into Orwellian logic like "Outsourcing your job will save your job." and "Cutting your wages will make you more prosperous eventually."

Republicans are most associated with this, and for good reason. But plenty of Democrats aided and abetted it -- and in some cases have been worse than Republicans.

In addition to policy changes like tax deformations, it led to deregulation, which was a Pandora's box of evils. Lost jobs, lower wages, abuse of consumers..

And -- extremely important -- it has led to the reshaping of a diverse economy into an oligarchy dominated by a handful of immensely powerful corporations that took over every sector of the economy.

Because we set aside Anti-Trust laws and Basic Regulation, small, mid-sized and even reasonably big companies were swallowed up into these behemoths. For example, instead of a lot of regional and local banks and a reasonable number of big banks, we now have a handful of massive titanic -- and utterly corrupt -- monster banks. They proved their immorality and power in 2008, but it was a long time coming before that.

It's happened in very industry -- and is still happening as we speak.

Also, the meaning of "centrist" was perverted. Rather than moderation, it became a code for those who enable the Oligarchs and do their bidding and -- in some cases -- join them, using the political system to accomplish the goals of their lord and masters.

In a sane environment, Bernie Sanders and his positions would be considered your basic Democratic Liberal. Instead of being considered the "fringe" his supporters would be mainstream Democrats. They are simply calling for some restoration of balance, so that power and wealth are not all being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands while everyone else is pushed down.

It stinks, and the only way it will end is when enough people say -- in the words of Bernie -- "Enough is Enough!"

Tepid bullshit is simply going to bring us more of the same. And "the same" means things will go ever more rapidly into a Fuedal Hellhole.