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Related: About this forumWhy Bernie Sanders is Still Standing
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/05/31/why-bernie-sanders-still-standingThe key to understanding why the current attacks have failed, she told me in a phone interview, lies with young people, Sanders primary base of support. I think Red-baiting is losing its bite, particularly among the young, because they dont know what communism was, and, as a result, baiting has lost its Cold War sting, she said.
The fragmentation of American politics [in the Internet Age] is also a factor, she continued. In the 50s, we had three TV networks and a few major newspapers. It was easier to marginalize left-wing figures. Now, we have a proliferation of outlets. There are so many other things today people can be made to fear besides being a socialist: terrorism, transgenderism, guns or the lack of them.
Recent public-opinion research bears out Schreckers views. A Pew poll from June 2015 found that 69 percent of voters under 30 were willing to vote for a socialist presidential candidate. A YouGov survey, conducted this January, found the same demographic had a higher opinion of socialism than capitalism, by a ratio of 43 to 32 percent.
Bernie Sanders has made it safe to be a socialist in American politics, Schrecker added. That could very well be his most important long-term achievement. He has offered a way of thinking about politics that we havent considered in 50 to 60 years. And hes done so in sync with what people feel at a gut level. The Occupy Movement brought the issue of income inequality to the forefront, and it has stayed there. Sanders has given the issue a public face.
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Why Bernie Sanders is Still Standing (Original Post)
eridani
May 2016
OP
Capitalism has taken away the American Dream and replaced it with the lottery
rhett o rick
Jun 2016
#3
NJCher
(35,427 posts)1. Capitalism hasn't worked for them
Meaning young people.
What's in it for them?
Cher
Hydra
(14,459 posts)2. That's what I came to find out
And the more I learn of what it actually does, the less sense it makes.
On the up side, the defenses of the system have gotten more lame with time.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)3. Capitalism has taken away the American Dream and replaced it with the lottery
as the new American Dream. Some of the older generations that saw the American Dream believe we can return but Capitalism is a one way street into oblivion. The young people see reality a little better than their grandparents.
We are fighting a class war and someone is going to get hurt before we are done. The Capitalists, like the Clintons, are trying to amass as much as they can before the goose that lays the golden eggs is butchered.
This is a People's Movement and the People will bring down the corruption of current American politics.