Are the United States ready to move beyond political gamesmanship,
and into political transformation? This seems to be the biggest question of the 2016 cycle.
Many people feel, as I do, that we don't have another 4 years left to play with before we start to turn away from the Wall Street/D.C. chimera that has brought us to this point. Bernie Sanders is making it clear that the bought legislative and executive branches, and by extension the judicial, must not be continued if we're to have representative government.
And yet the bought media, for their part, bring us nothing but the soap-opera machinations of established and establishment players. Polls, trial balloons, endorsements, groups of polls - they're all rolled out in a seamless product designed to make us think this is what the electoral process ought to be about.
My view is that the choice between Sen. Sanders and anybody else is this larger choice: Empire vs Human Community, to put it in rather dramatic terms. But that's how dire the situation is, and how crucial is this test.
= new reply since forum marked as read
