Bernie Sanders is this year's biggest story

[Uncle Joe]

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While Trump is a self-funded billionaire who was well-known before he ran and benefited from a highly fractured Republican field in which no one could coalesce enough votes to challenge him, Bernie Sanders is a relatively unknown senator who used small donations to mount a serious and sustained challenge to Hillary Clinton's campaign, one of the best-oiled political juggernauts of the past half century.

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But unlike Trump, who is, I think, encouraging and even goading his supporters' deep hostility toward government and elected leadership, part of the revolution Sanders talks about is a newfound belief that the system really could change if we try to change it. Whatever the outcome of the election, Trump supporters will crawl under rocks or join up with militant militias or just grow older and die.

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As a result, these supporters may increasingly see government as a potential tool for change -- one that can work well if we work to change it. Whether he wins or not, I expect the biggest part of Sanders' legacy will be a generation of engaged, honest and bold leaders who work within government and not just outside and against it.

And in that sense, Bernie Sanders isn't going away. Neither is his message. Or his voters.

Not in this primary. Not in the general election. And not in the foreseeable future of American politics.


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To the extent that Donald Trump may be killing the Republican Party, Bernie Sanders is doing the opposite -- reviving the Democratic Party and imbuing it with a new generation of engaged, optimistic leadership. Bernie Sanders has already changed the current election with his dogged focus on income inequality and economic justice. Sanders' supporters will change elections and politics for decades to come.

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/29/opinions/bernie-sanders-big-story-2016-opinion-kohn/index.html

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. Is that CNN?

[Uncle Joe]

2. Yes they generally do better on the Internet than on T.V.

I still haven't heard a word from them on television regarding the massive voter suppression that took place in Arizona.

[libdem4life]

3. Agree. This is not a Flash in the Pan. Bernie has struck a deep chord

in the formerly disenfranchised populace. That should scare the pants off the Establishment, even as we approach the political level of Kleptocracy, the Clintons being the most egregious representatives.

This is what we might call a banana republic in other regions of The Americas, up to and including foreign monitoring to make sure their elections are "fair".

Now, we are becoming what we have globally shamed ... Pay to play ... and desperately need voting monitoring to insure fair elections.

It is not a great period in American History, I fear. If Bernie is our next President he immediately begins the long and difficult journey back to a a government that listens (to the masses), is affected by the will of an informed people, and shepherds us back to the principles that our forefathers fought so hard for.

In fact, I believe that even if he does not end up in the White House, he will still do the same thing...lead the movement that leads back to our historical roots.

[Uncle Joe]

4. It's rather tragically ironic for all our overt championing of democracy, spending vast quantities

of blood and treasure abroad, that we are so eager to demean it here at home while too many in our national "free press" play blind, deaf and dumb.

I agree, libdem4life, Bernie has already become a major transformational candidate, I expect should he become President the road to national enlightenment will still be steep but nothing in U.S. history in regards to societal advancement and major progressive reform has ever come easy.

I am hopeful and optimistic that the American People can and will rise to the challenge.

[libdem4life]

7. Kind of like "Do as I say, not as I do." That's the typical politician's position...at some level.

Bernie embodies hope and optimism for the future, even if he gets a bit "grumpy" at times. By his record, he is saying also "Do as I do" ... put differently, walking the talk and talking the walk.

[Octafish]

5. Bernie Sanders is absolutely the biggest story of the year.

Donald Trump was born with his own tee vee show.

Bernie's friends with Thom Hartmann, thank Moon.

And thank you, Uncle Joe! Great OP and article from Sally Kohn!

[Uncle Joe]

6. I'm happy you enjoyed it, Octafish.

Peace to you.