2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Forget Sanders and Clinton for a moment. This is a symbolic schism that has been long brewing [View all]raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)There are those who fund Wall St and finance the assaults against grassroots democracy for all people and there are those who labor so the least have a voice.
For them, democracy for all people, justice and liberty, outweigh personal profit.
I've only been on this planet a short time and in that window American democracy has gone from somewhat of an ideal to a focus group slogan.
From South American death squads to Tiananmen Square. From the Middle East to the Midwest. From the melting ice caps to the warming oceans. The deceit, destruction, despair and deaths of the innocent can be laid directly into the laps of those more concerned with personal gain than being a decent steward to the young, to wildlife and to our swiftly degrading natural world.