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reformist2

(9,841 posts)
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 12:18 AM Feb 2016

Here's the choice: Do you want to work with Wall Street & Big Pharma, or put them in their place?

Never has Hillary been such a clear defender of the status-quo and the "system we have inherited" as she was tonight: Her campaign is all about working with the big institutions and essentially begging them to cooperate to give Americans a little more. I hate to use the word, but there is a word to describe government-corporate partnership. Needless it say, it rarely works for the benefit of the people.

Bernie's vision is actually the more traditionally American view. It only seems radical because we've let the "corporatists" (my euphemism for the word that shall not be mentioned) run things for the past 30 years. It's the idea that we the people govern, and not corporate interests. And you're not going to get Big Pharma to cut their drug costs in half, or Wall Street to behave without massive new government regulations that bring those industries under control.

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