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1JGL53
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-studebaker/bernie-vs-hillary-matters-more...
This guy seems to have his ducks in a row concerning the larger conspiracy.
Comments?
This guy seems to have his ducks in a row concerning the larger conspiracy.
Comments?
2lriley
I liked that article quite a lot. Back in 2008 when Obama was a candidate there was a lot of talk about the government investing in infrastructure---more or less if Obama were elected we were going to have a new 'New Deal'--how much that was sabotaged by Bush and the banks collapsing the economy is debatable but Obama went from being a populist left candidate to a centrist POTUS. That's how I've seen it anyway. I was excited back then because Obama spoke in visionary terms about creating a society with realizable and constructive goals that would be inclusive for all. There have been improvements in some areas but overall his presidency has fallen far short of what he envisioned as a candidate.
People have become used to looking at the stock market to get a take on how the economy is doing. How it's really doing though is really told in cities, towns---the neighborhoods where people live. Main St. over Wall St. every day for me. You might be doing okay yourself but if your neighbors all around you are doing shit there's a problem.
I don't exactly share the writer's pessimism. I don't think Sanders is the last chance for the democratic party. People like the Clinton's--even if they win and win again--don't realize that their self-serving vision is leading them towards their own extinction. There is significant % of the democratic base that's going to continue to move the party leftwards and it's growing. Not only is that where the future momentum of the democratic party IMO is going but all over the western democracies populations are turning against the neo-libs and neo-cons. The democratic party's elder statesmen/women who buy the neo-liberal shtick are dinosaurs. They may win this time around but their days are numbered.
People have become used to looking at the stock market to get a take on how the economy is doing. How it's really doing though is really told in cities, towns---the neighborhoods where people live. Main St. over Wall St. every day for me. You might be doing okay yourself but if your neighbors all around you are doing shit there's a problem.
I don't exactly share the writer's pessimism. I don't think Sanders is the last chance for the democratic party. People like the Clinton's--even if they win and win again--don't realize that their self-serving vision is leading them towards their own extinction. There is significant % of the democratic base that's going to continue to move the party leftwards and it's growing. Not only is that where the future momentum of the democratic party IMO is going but all over the western democracies populations are turning against the neo-libs and neo-cons. The democratic party's elder statesmen/women who buy the neo-liberal shtick are dinosaurs. They may win this time around but their days are numbered.
4jjwilson61
I've been watching the Ken Burn's Roosevelt documentary on Netflix and there were a couple of FDR quotes that I think Sanders should be using often. I can't find the other one, but one was
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
