2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A Chant just broke out at Ohio State during Bernie's speech [View all]Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)up to us to stand behind him and pressure Congress to do what we want. We want Representative Democracy back, currently the politicians only represent Donors.
This is what Hillary wouldn't do if she could. She is the BEST politician out there using the current method of rounding up corporate and wealthy donors. She knows them all personally. Her timing is bad because we have had enough!
Trump's popularity is partially due to the anti-establishment sentiment that has been growing accross the spectrum. He has used that frustration to his advantage to destroy the Republican Establishment candidates.
None of the stuff is "free" and Bernie has explained how he will come up with the money. An audit of the Penagon would pay for most of Bernie's programs! We have been getting hugely ripped off in the military's budget because neither Party had a desire to audit the Pentagon. Their Donors sure didn't want it to happen.
It's time we got rid of the influence peddling and took an honest assessment at where we are, where to we want to be, and how we will do it. With big business finally paying their fair share of taxes, we should be in a great position to implement some programs beneficial to most Americans instead of just the Donor class.