2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRobert Reich's rebuttal to WAPO attack on Bernie
www.robertreich.org/post/130312224165
....big snip
This is why the logic of Sanderss ideas depends on the political changes he seeks. Fahrenthold says a President Sanders couldnt 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 thats fueling Bernies campaign, but it is gaining strength and conviction. Other politicians, as well as political reporters, ignore this upsurge at their peril.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)That goes for both people in the media as well as here on DU.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)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 careprofitize 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)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)The same holds true for all conservatives whether they identify themselves as a Republican or a Democrat.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,112 posts)with it.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=638485
Thanks for the thread, grasswire.