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jmowreader

(50,553 posts)
Tue Apr 12, 2016, 11:44 PM Apr 2016

Tell me about the revolution, Daddy

Bernie Sanders thinks we need a political revolution.

As does Donald Trump.

And the sovereign citizen community.

So...exactly what happens when a bunch of pissed-off, unarmed people who think the lack of a $15 minimum wage and that the government hasn't taxed the rich into financial oblivion and used the money to pay for healthcare, college tuitions and family leave programs are America's biggest problems...come up against a bunch of pissed-off, heavily-armed people who think America has a minimum wage at all, taxes on the rich are far too high, gays, non-Christians, people who aren't married, people who don't have enough kids, men who wear earrings and women who don't, and brown people are allowed to be on American soil, and the government spends tax money on anything except the Army are America's biggest problems...and those two groups come up against another bunch of pissed-off people who think the country having a government at all is America's biggest problem?

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BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)
8. Don't hold your breath. Not many spring chickens on this site who are supporters of Sanders,
Wed Apr 13, 2016, 10:02 AM
Apr 2016

so they prove that it's not always true that with age comes wisdom.

Cha

(297,136 posts)
2. They should have started it after bush2 .. that's when we needed it.. now BS is late to
Wed Apr 13, 2016, 05:01 AM
Apr 2016

the revolution.

Obama started it and Hillary is taking up the mantel for 2017.. theirs is a real revolution.

Not based on fakery.

jmowreader

(50,553 posts)
3. We've never needed the kind of revolution they want
Wed Apr 13, 2016, 05:41 AM
Apr 2016

A LOT of dictatorships were born of violent revolution. Witness an itty-bitty French asshole named Napoleon Bonaparte who rose from the ashes of the French Revolution.

No, Cha, what we need is EVOLUTION rather than REVOLUTION. The term I've been using is dereaganization. If we can somehow figure out how to undo everything Ronald Reagan inflicted on this country - if it's even possible to do it - we should be in pretty good shape.

Cha

(297,136 posts)
4. We can do it! President Obama has worked his very best to undo the harm bush2 inflicted
Wed Apr 13, 2016, 05:59 AM
Apr 2016

on our country.. and we're still not out from under but it's an amazing start.

Next we'll have Hillary Clinton and what she will bring to the next 8 years of Democratic Principles in the White House.

But, we need a Democratic Congress, too.. and this is what Hillary understands and works for, while BS keeps his bucks to himself.. and doesn't think he needs A Dem Congress to pass his promises.



Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
6. One of my questions is why is Sanders pushing for a revolution in the first place,
Wed Apr 13, 2016, 07:07 AM
Apr 2016

What part is he planning to play in the revolution?

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