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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPoliticsUsa: Bernie Sanders calls for a political revolution to save our democracy
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/07/02/bernie-sanders-calls-political-revolution-democracy.htmlSanders had some ideas about government he wanted to share, an appealing alternative to what government has become in America today:
What politics should simply be about is people coming together, taking a hard look at the problems we face, listen to different ideas, and then go about solving those problems.
Despite what the media may think, politics is not a baseball game, he said. Politics is not a soap opera. What politics is about in a democratic society is coming together and improving life for other people. What we have instead, he said, is the Kochs electing people who will make the rich richer and everyone else poorer. This is not democracy, he said. This is oligarchy.
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PoliticsUsa: Bernie Sanders calls for a political revolution to save our democracy (Original Post)
peacebird
Jul 2015
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Nitram
(22,801 posts)1. That's what it would take for a Sanders victory, a revolution.
peacebird
(14,195 posts)2. That is exactly what is happening!
kacekwl
(7,017 posts)3. Woot Woot I'm on board
Time to take OUR government back.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)4. I'm on board with that. nt