When Marco Rubio and Hillary Clinton take essentially the same funding from GEO and CCA, and Jeb Bush actually receives less money than Clinton and Rubio, establishment politics proves ideology takes a back seat to cash.

Like rival prison gangs, Republicans and Democrats will glare at each other across the yard, but cut lucrative deals when the guards (the American people, in this case) aren’t looking.

In 2016, it’s Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren’s economic message, along with Dr. Cornel West’s social message, against America’s political establishment. While Warren hasn’t officially been picked as Vice President for Bernie Sanders, there’s few better than Massachusetts’s Senator. Anyone other than Warren or Nina Turner (Terrell Jermaine Starr has a brilliant interview with the Ohio State Senator), and I’d be very disappointed, in addition to the fact that any other choice from Warren or Turner would halt the immense momentum of the campaign.

As for idealism versus pragmatism, it’s not pragmatic to use a private server (“It was sitting there in the basement”) for “convenience.” Pragmatism, and “getting things done” to both Sanders and Warren means breaking up Too Big to Fail Banks, reinstating Glass-Steagall, ensuring we never again rescue failed corporations (socialist George W. Bush forced nine major banks to “accept partial nationalization” and urged government to own private business in 2008), and solving the conundrum of massive wealth inequality.