on The Young Turks. Also Democracy Now. I like him a lot.
Not at all certain that I like his strategy, it's good in theory but the likely outcome is he doesn't win the nomination (duh) and he siphons votes disproportionately from Bernie. In fact I think it is borderline insane.
But the root of his fanaticism on this issue is climate change and the impending doom we are hopeless to confront when our leaders are on corporate payrolls, and he's 100% right about that.
It IS a desperate situation. I wish people would get that through their heads, and at the very least withdraw support from the corporatist presumptive nominee. We have to maniacally change our ways, and the corporations have placed such a retooling of society "off the table".
So his laser-like focus on fixing campaign financing is right on, he's seriously looking for a way to make this happen, which is more than I can say about most anyone else. It's the reform that enables all other reforms, including radical change to a carbon neutral society.
Until that, we can elect an excellent candidate like Bernie, and should, but he will still be operating in a fundamentally corrupt context, not so much on him but on every other elected official he needs support from.
I like the Bernie model better, where candidates unilaterally refuse corporate money, and we learn to elect them, against all odds. It can be done. If we learn this well enough, and we must, they will be the leaders for campaign finance reform, and for making a serious attempt to get a handle on climate change before it is too late.
We need to, as a society, make accepting corporate money a shameful, disqualifying offense. If we can build a social concensus to that effect, we'll be able to elect uncompromised candidates, then anything is possible.
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