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grasswire

(50,130 posts)
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 02:41 AM Oct 2015

Robert Reich's rebuttal to WAPO attack on Bernie

www.robertreich.org/post/130312224165



....big snip

This is why the logic of Sanders’s ideas depends on the political changes he seeks. Fahrenthold says a President Sanders couldn’t get any of his ideas implemented anyway because Congress would reject them. But if Bernie Sanders is elected president, American politics will have been altered, reducing the moneyed interests’ chokehold over the public agenda.

Fahrenthold may not see the populism that’s fueling Bernie’s campaign, but it is gaining strength and conviction. Other politicians, as well as political reporters, ignore this upsurge at their peril.

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davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
1. You can't convince people of something who are blind, dumb, and deaf
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 04:42 AM
Oct 2015

That goes for both people in the media as well as here on DU.

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)
3. Make it so!
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 06:18 AM
Oct 2015

We must transform American politics. It's that or allow the nation to slide fully into a corporatocracy. We are going downhill in a runaway train and the bridge is out.

In case you haven't noticed this is a fucking emergency. You know, "In case of emergency, break glass." This is when you break the glass.

Without Bernie this nation is totally fucked.

Examine any facet of the nation. Education is a good one. Both parties are clearly bent on doing away with public education. They want to do to public education what is already wrong with heath care—profitize it.

War, homeland security or national security, whichever way you wish to describe it, it is no longer really about actual security. Since 9/11 and the Iraq War it has morphed mostly into a profit consideration. This is just a fact whether you wish to acknowledge it or not.

You can go on and on. The nation is no longer working for We the People, not even close.

grasswire

(50,130 posts)
6. it's all a big racket
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 11:42 AM
Oct 2015

keep the rats toiling away, while the 1 percent reap the benefits of their labor and send their children to war.

 

NorthCarolina

(11,197 posts)
4. They see the populism, and are fully aware of it, but can NEVER acknowledge it
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 09:26 AM
Oct 2015

The same holds true for all conservatives whether they identify themselves as a Republican or a Democrat.

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