2016 Postmortem
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Turn it on now.
Totally calling out the Dems for dumping the middle class.
Saying that GOP are for the top 1%. Dems are for the top 10%.
Some damning stuff.
Worth a listen.
Edit:
You can listen to it know here... And you should.
http://radioopensource.org/im-with-him/#comments
I'd HIGHLY recommend letting any undecided Democrat voter listen to that.
Here's the 10% quote:
"The answer is right there in plain sight if we open our eyes and look - they talk about it themselves - who is there core constituency these days? It's satisfied, successful professionals: members of the upper stratum of the professional class. And they themselves will actually say this when they're talking about their demographic appeal - that's one of the main props of the party. They're quite open about it.. And this is the one group that basically gets everything they want from the Democratic Party. Very satisfied with the Democratic Party and thinks Hillary Clinton is a great candidate, that looks at the Obama years with profound satisfaction... And if you look at them from that perspective, the Democrats as a class party... The class in question is not the working class; it's not Roosevelt's people. It's not the Middle Class; Harry Truman's people or Lyndon Johnson's people.
It's the professional class.
They would rather lose than change the way they do things.
Democrats love to moan about the Koch Brothers, and the hierarchy of money and the 1%... How dreadful it is. But after doing all this research on the Democratic Party it dawned on me it's the 10% - it's the upper stratum of the professional class that is the mass constituency for inequality...probably the majority of those people are Democrats.. They have no problem with it, the leadership of the Democratic Party.
They think inequality is sad they thinks it's kind of tragic that we've lost that middle class world of the 50s and 60s and 70s, but there's nothing you can do about that."
About Bill: the greatest fake populist of all time.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)And it's a damn good way to express the problem.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)And NPR is telling us about it?
That's remarkable.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026281670
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)a conversation that would not even be happening, had Bernie decided not
to run for President.
THANK YOU BERNIE, for making this election about stuff We the People really
care about.
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)As to the rest of your post, I absolutely agree.
I started doing some digging at http://www.muckety.com/ a while back. What an eye opener. The deeper you dig the dirtier it gets. Both sides of the aisle (often they converge) are corrupt to the core.
I thank Bernie for awakening my curiosity from it's sleep.