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AZ Progressive

(3,411 posts)
2. If you really want that, there's only one path: Bernie's Revolution
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 11:18 AM
Apr 2016

Otherwise, sorry. You live in a country that thinks that noone deserves to eat unless they work for it (even if they can't find jobs) and that the rich deserve all their money that they have acquired (even if they leeched off of the hard work of others to get it or got it by cheating.)

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
3. Sadly the conservative wing of our party has turned their backs on these rights
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 11:20 AM
Apr 2016

and yielded to the lure of wealth. The Clinton Family net worth is $150,000,000 and climbing and that doesn't include their retirement fund called the Clinton Foundation.

felix_numinous

(5,198 posts)
4. Only a minority of the aristocracy
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 01:54 PM
Apr 2016

are philanthropists bold enough to champion the wellbeing of the whole union. They have sequestered themselves off in a virtual world, and are sorely in need of a wake up call.

The Roosevelts and the Sanders don't come along but once in a lifetime, this is our window of opportunity to punch a hole in the 1% bubble of denial.

They are literally manufacturing consent, this astroturf campaign is built on money and the preservation of their lifestyle, and I believe their virtual reality can be beat.

pampango

(24,692 posts)
5. "Scandinavia" as Bernie would point out, still applies FDR's Economic Bill of Rights.
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 02:52 PM
Apr 2016

It ain't impossible in the 21st century.

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