Must Read: Sanders versus the Military-Medical-Wall Street - Political Industrial Complex

In one of the wisest and most profound farewell addresses in the history of the American presidency Dwight Eisenhower warned the nation of the dangers of a military-industrial complex.

Somewhere in heaven Mr. Eisenhower must be looking down to earth and observing American politics and thinking: “My fellow Americans, don’t say I didn’t warn you.”

What is most striking, fascinating and profound about the Bernie Sanders campaign—and the workers and small donors who are rallying to his cause—is the degree that he, and they, are battling against the oligopolization of America across the landscape of American politics and the American economy.

Americans are being frozen out of a college education entirely because they cannot afford the costs that have continued to balloon day after day, year after year, decade after decade and generation after generation.

Remember, Obamacare was passed at a time when Democrats controlled the presidency and large majorities in the House and Senate.

So why were the stronger reforms that Mr. Obama and most Democrats claimed to support defeated?

The answer lies in a medical-industrial complex that includes big insurers, big drug companies, and major hospitals whose lobbyists directed big amounts of campaign donations in return for stripping out of the legislation the most powerful reforms that were defeated even under a Democratic president who governed at the time with large Democratic majorities in the House and Senate.

When Mr. Sanders calls for a Medical for All healthcare system that would maintain high quality health care at a far lower cost to consumers he is battling against this medical industrial complex.

The village idiot can figure out that Ms. Clinton’s opposition is not unrelated to the considerable degree that Wall Street firms pour millions of dollars into her campaign and to enhance her personal wealth. (Please stop with the lie that she donated all of her speaking fees to charity.)

When Mr. Sanders calls for a free college education at public universities he is battling against the education industrial complex that created and continues the status quo. When Mr. Sanders calls for financing his free public college education through a tax on Wall Street transactions that is so small it would barely be noticed by the wealthy Wall Street players who would be affected, he is battling the financial industrial complex that does notice and aggressively opposes even a tiny contribution to educating the next generation of Americans.

http://observer.com/2015/12/bernie-sanders-vs-the-military-medical-wall-street-political-industrial-complex/

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