that really does nail the concerns many of us have - yes indeed - jeez, whenever people think there's a simple solution - THERE ISN'T

I unfortunately don't have a link for you, but I've heard on the Stephanie Miller show that there was study/poll that stripped democratic/gop, redstate/bluestate labels off of policy positions and ideas. Liberal policies won out over conservative ones.

Our courageous (impeachment is off the table) leaders want easy victories, and for the DLC/New Democrats, what-ever-they-call-themselves-now that has meant being republican-lite. Sounding like gops and finding gops "that we can work with&quot thanks debbie).

I was there for that too, and the next time some pol tells you that they need to help the rich man out to save you, to keep your economy going, YOU remember your history.

Had we "destroyed" the economy the Bank$ter/hadists wouldn't own your life with the interest and fees they take from your labor, 8 million families now wouldn't have been suckered into a market and then thrown in the street in foreclosure, we wouldn't be melting the world around you (think there is gonna be enough places left to grow food to get you through your lifetime? Your kids? Get ready.)

And it's a really good possibility we wouldn't have had the Ds of the past couple of administrations throwing what used to be OUR principles up on etsy for sale to the lowest bidder...

I know I disagree with that writer who thinks Reagan saved us. He didn't, and neither have the groveling lap dog politicians that have slithered their way through the various offices including the office of the President of the People of the United States ever since.

If we could drive interest rates up to 25%-30% so people stop buying, stop funding corporate welfare, change the tax code to favor building instead of just trading, and start re-training people with this century's knowledge, it would induce a Great Depression. You would have to figure out how to feed your family with the help of the National Guard, perhaps, but the hold of the Bank$ter/Jihadists would be loosened as long as people could stand the pain.

But folks like their cable and lazyboys more than freedom, so expect your future to keep melting. President Sanders is proposing a mild version of this. Vote and watch.

And good luck.


* = as a country. Some of us never stopped believing in those ideas..
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This boomer has your back.

This boomer has Bernie's back.

even if he doesn't get any farther than the primaries. This old boomer knows that a good showing for Sanders is going to help the party keep moving to the left, something the young have little patience for but which can't really be done by fiat without a hell of a lot of pushback by the stupid.

He might astonish us all and go the distance and be given at least 2 years of a new Congress he can work with. This is not 1972. The conservatives in both parties have been running things since 1969 and the proof of their competence to govern is the state of the country right now: huge debt (national and personal), perpetual war, starved safety net, low wages, wealth concentration, crumbling infrastructure, and a population largely sick of it all and getting less hopeful by the minute.

People who know who did the damage are for Sanders. People who are mad about the damage with no clue who did it are for Trump.

Clinton, however, isn't a bad choice. The country can survive another Clinton as president, although one hopes she doesn't repeat the mistakes of her husband by stupidly signing destructive legislation from the Republicans in the hope someone else will modify it sooner rather than later.

Don't succumb to the cult of personality. Remember, the worst Democrat out there is always much better than the best the Republicans have always offered us. If your candidate doesn't get the nomination. vote for the one who does.

You'll thank us for this one, too.

This is an excellent video, it made me cry because I lived through so much of it. I am so proud of the young people and their support for Bernie.

Do not buy into ageism. We boomers have no problem remembering the past you have pointed out. We never stopped living it as the same struggles confront us today. One of the many myths we live under is that all members of a generation think alike. Painfully we boomers acknowledge that there are just as many of us who vote Republican as vote Democrat. You will find this true of your generation as well, though we boomers like to thing we have tilted the balance by raising more consciously aware children.
We have your backs on Bernie and hope will all the hope we put in Obama that things turn out as we all desire.
I, in my personal extended experience, also would like to offer one more thing.
We are scared shitless of what a Trump Presidency would bring to the world. We are hoping you share this fear and that you will do whatever it takes to stop the madness. You have the numbers only if you turn up to vote in large enough numbers. Less than 60% does not cut the cake.
If enough of us 'boomers' had voted in '68, '76, or 2000 the world would be a seriously different place.
Same holds true today.